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...role as its architect and the White House's earlier affirmations that it involved only international communications by people with "known links" to al-Qaeda and did not have ordinary Americans in its sights. The latest revelations could raise "additional substantial questions about the general's credibility," says Oregon Democrat Ron Wyden, a Senate Intelligence Committee member...
...were pleased to see that we beat Yale, and quite convincingly,” he said. The Bulldogs placed a distant 38th in that category. The only other Ivy League school in the top 20 for per capita recycling was Princeton, at number nine. First place went to Oregon State University with 91.35 pounds, almost double Harvard’s total. But in the waste minimization category Harvard was swept to the bottom of the league, coming 41st out of the 43 entrants in that category with 191.11 pounds of waste generated per person. That cut the University?...
Sources: AP; Chicago Tribune; Commonwealth Fund; U.S. Census Bureau; Lancet (2); AP; Oregon Department of Human Services...
...Number of reported deaths by physician-assisted suicide last year in Oregon--which has about one-fifth the population of the Netherlands--up from 16 in 1998, the first full year it was legal...
...polar bear among shrinking ice floes broke my heart. Thanks for perfectly capturing a simple, real-life symptom of a complicated problem. We humans have to take responsibility for how our lifestyle affects the innocents around us. I know I'm motivated to do better. Matthew M. Cooper Eugene, Oregon, U.S. Be worried? no - be prepared! We've done the damage, and now we must live with the consequences. Worrying won't help. Our actions may determine how long we survive as a species. Matt Devereux London, Canada Why do people cry about climate change as if the climate were...