Word: ores
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...California this year; oranges cost nearly a third more in May than they did in May 2006. Climbing food prices sound scary, and reporters have filed a spate of alarmist stories about "soaring" grocery bills (Good Morning America) that are "way up" (CNN) and causing "sticker shock" (the Bend, Ore., Bulletin). But it actually would be good if food cost a great deal more...
Gramercy's beer list includes selections from North America, Europe and Japan, with bottles dating as far back as 1993 and ranging in price from $13 for a Hitachino Celebration Ale to $23 for a Thomas Hardy's Ale. Higgins Restaurant, an upscale bistro in Portland, Ore., even offers a short list of after-dinner beers. In March the Sheraton hotel chain Four Points named a chief beer officer to oversee its new lists of imported and regional craft beers. Meanwhile, waiters at the Michelin-starred Spotted Pig restaurant in New York City gently explain to patrons that cask-conditioned...
...Which current Yankee do you fear the most, A Rod or Jeter? -Jason P. Sharpe, Florence, Ore. They're both good hitters. I wouldn't want to face either...
...president Jason Fried, 33, decided early on that he didn't need to be in the shiny valley of Silicon to make cool software. Half his team works out of a plain-vanilla Chicago office that 37signals shares with a design studio. The other four are scattered: Portland, Ore.; Chesapeake, Va.; Caldwell, Idaho; and New York City. This tiny crew, only three of whom graduated from college, has built software that many in the world of Web 2.0 consider the best for small-business collaboration. One of its development tools, Ruby on Rails, is the backbone for dozens of popular...
...groundbreaking study--which is being emulated in Boston, Chicago and Portland, Ore.--was full of surprises. Among them was the sheer size of New York's problem: 70,000 students from 16 to 21--more than one-fifth of the city's high school population--were two or more years behind their peers in accumulating the 44 credits needed for graduation. An additional 68,000 had already dropped out. All told, New York's 138,000 lost and vulnerable kids made up a population larger than the combined public high school enrollment of Philadelphia, Houston and Boston...