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...professors] being bombarded with e-mail,” he hadn’t dealt with inappropriate messages. “I have, for the most part not found students to be intrusive,” he said. But Assistant Anthropology Professor Lamia N. Karim at the University of Oregon felt the need to add reminders about proper e-mail etiquette to her course syllabus. Karim said a recent New York Times article about the subject made her realize that “this was not an isolated phenomenon, but much wider.” “I wanted...
...explain what this project was all about and to subdue any concerns about things like the availability of green materials and whether water-based adhesives could be counted on to perform as well as the ones containing toxins. They also brought in a representative of the Oregon Department of Energy, which ended up working closely with the clients to maximize the energy-savings potential of the home...
...year has three bedrooms, 2 baths and an open-plan kitchen-dining-living area with a cathedral ceiling. It also has a pair of stepped roofs aligned in parallel curves, each serving a different environmental purpose. The lower roof is covered in solar panels. The notoriously cloudy coast of Oregon might not seem like the ideal place to draw power from the sun, but because of a combination of serious insulation with sophisticated systems for generating heat and storing it in geothermal wells?basically warm holes in the ground?over the course of a year, the house actually produces more...
...Towey, the President's director of faith-based initiatives, isn't a typical Bush appointee. First of all, he's a Democrat. Second, his career trajectory never took him anywhere near the state of Texas. He worked on Capitol Hill for former Sen. Mark Hatfield, the Oregon Republican, and for Lawton Chiles, the former Democratic governor of Florida. He also had the distinction of being the late Mother Teresa's lawyer, and serving in her Calcutta mission. On Monday, seated under a picture of President Bush at prayer, Towey told a handful of reporters that he was leaving the White...
...horrendously bad script. If Lucas wants to save the movies, he had better hire some of the writers who helped him turn the original Star Wars and Indiana Jones films into the smart, action-packed and interestingly plotted films that we all love. Georgia Manry Portland, Oregon, U.S. Those who prefer film over digital images should awaken from their chemically induced haze! Digital is faster, cleaner, more versatile and incredibly fun to work with. In the hands of a true cinematographer, digital moviemaking exhibits all the soul, humanity and feeling of a production shot on film. None of those attributes...