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Walker recently attended her first Tupperware-style pleasure party, thrown by Oregon-based Earth Erotics, where the goods for sale included organic massage oils and whips made of recycled inner tubes. At a time when Americans are just getting used to prime-time ads for Trojan and K-Y, eco-consumers are learning that most of the personal lubricants in the U.S.--drugstores sold $82 million worth of them last year--contain chemicals found in oven cleaner and antifreeze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex and the Eco-City: Getting It On Is Getting Greener | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

...clear that the trend with workers for a lot of plans is spend more, get less," says Democratic Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, a member of the Senate Finance Committee who has pushed, so far unsuccessfully, for the reform bills in Congress to give employees and employers more choices by allowing them to shop for coverage in the insurance marketplaces that would be established under reform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Employer-Based Insurance: Paying More, Getting Less | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

...aggressively pursued medical-marijuana users and distributors in states that had relaxed their drug laws to allow patients with certain conditions - including glaucoma and AIDS - to use marijuana to ease their symptoms. Fourteen states now make allowances for medical-marijuana use, including California, Colorado, Maryland, Michigan, New Mexico and Oregon. (Watch a video about a medical-marijuana home-delivery service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Justice Won't Go After Medical-Marijuana Users | 10/20/2009 | See Source »

While the women’s team once again had a better showing, the story of the day proved to be Chenowith, whose personal-best 24:01.8 not only netted eighth overall, but left the junior standout just 21 seconds behind top finisher Luke Paskedra of Oregon...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Junior Moves Into National Scene With Finish | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

Lawn Chair Larry's unlikely flight spawned many imitators. In 2008, Oregon man Kent Couch successfully took his own balloon-powered lawn chair on a 235-mile (378 km) trek across the state, traveling across the Idaho state line. This was Couch's third trip - his second stopped just short of the state line, while the first ended with him parachuting from the chair after popping too many balloons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do-It-Yourself Ballooning | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

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