Word: ores
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MULTNOMAH COUNTY, ORE. Even before last week's ruling, a backlash against the county's gay weddings helped pass an amendment banning them...
...abdominal surgery would have us believe that the luck of the Irish still holds. But his health is not explainable just in terms of luck. We should consider ourselves fortunate indeed to have a man of old-fashioned virtues and moral strength leading our nation. J. Robert Hall Veronia, Ore...
...province, although it remains part of Sichuan. For the past two years the city has become an economic laboratory for the country. Chongqing has plants that produce trucks, buses, machine tools, chemicals, textiles and munitions. It has ample supplies of high-grade coal, natural gas and iron ore, as well as rich red earth, which provides an abundance of vegetables and grain. Thus it is an ideal testing ground for the plans of Paramount Leader Deng Xiaoping, a Sichuan native son, who wants to streamline China's bureaucracy, increase economic incentives and put a new face on Chinese socialism...
...case in point: Peter and Trudy Johnson-Lenz, two programmers from Lake Oswego, Ore., have created a slot on Turoff's EIES network devoted to a meditation process they call attunement. When a caller types + ATTUNE and presses the RETURN key, a series of messages selected to calm the spirit and quiet the mind scroll up the screen. "Close your eyes, pause quietly for a few moments and be here now," read the final instructions. "Press RETURN when you feel attuned." --By Philip Elmer-DeWitt. Reported by Robert C. Wurmstedt/Denver
...horror a slow death can be, have trouble with the idea of speeding up the process. The American Medical Association remains opposed to any aid-in-dying laws, and the group speaks for a lot of its members. "When a doctor writes a prescription for lethal drugs," says Portland, Ore., radiologist Kenneth Stevens, "the message to the patient is, 'I don't value you or your life...