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...technology that the nine justices of the Supreme Court wrestled with last week was relatively crude: a heat-sensing gun pointed at a house in Florence, Ore., by federal agents on the lookout for homegrown marijuana. In 1992, a cop using the device had spotted a lot of excess heat coming off high-intensity grow lights. Police searched the house, found more than 100 plants and arrested one of its occupants--a small-time marijuana grower named Danny Kyllo. Kyllo appealed the case all the way to the highest court, arguing that by using infrared technology to pry into...
Geocaching is a new sport made possible by a satellite-based technology called GPS (global positioning system), which enables users to pinpoint their exact latitude and longitude on the earth's surface to an absurd number of decimal places. Last year early adopters in the Portland, Ore., area began hiding little stashes of CDs, action figures, Band Aids and other goodies in exotic locations--on a mountaintop, underwater, hanging off a cliff face--and posting the coordinates on the Internet as a challenge to their fellow nerds. The idea is that once you find a cache, you take the prize...
RECORD SET. ALAN WEBB, 18, Virginia distance-running phenom who raced a mile in 3:53.43, shattering the 36-year-old U.S. high school record of 3:55.3 set by Kansas Congressman Jim Ryun; in Eugene, Ore...
Village by village, Mexico is hollowing out. Fidel Guevara, 39, left his farming hamlet of Manlio Fabio Altamirano, 25 miles west of Veracruz city, five years ago and worked on a farm in New Era, Ore. He moved back last year only because he missed his wife and daughters. His son Hector, 18, is still in Oregon, making $7 an hour at a plant nursery. Guevara's return hasn't been perfect. He says he is lucky to make $6 a week in his butcher shop. His wife Matilde Diaz, 40, chokes back tears over her son's absence...
...Clever traveled to Eugene, Ore., in search of his first NCAA title. After consecutive 14th-place finishes at NCAAs during his sophomore and junior seasons, he was hoping for much more this time around. But when Clever faulted on his first throw and failed to break even 60 meters on his second, he was one bad throw away from a last-place finish among 19 competitors...