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...After that, as Femmy later recounted to a friend, she endured the three months with gnawing fear of what she had done to her baby by working all day in the ore processing factory. Almost every hour of every day had meant touching or breathing mercury: it is used to bind with, then separate the tiny bits of gold from the stone; then it has to be burned off to isolate the precious metal. When the baby finally arrived, the doctor waited until an hour after the birth before telling Femmy what had happened. Her son's intestines were outside...
...patient. There are far more differences than similarities between the Oregon experience and that of the Netherlands. Most of what occurs in the Netherlands under its euthanasia law would not be tolerated under the Oregon law. To borrow your phrase, Oregon is no "Hemlockland." ELI D. STUTSMAN, ATTORNEY Portland, Ore...
...Jesus noted, the last shall be first. After only a year on the market, a slim inspirational text called The Prayer of Jabez, written by an evangelist based in Atlanta, Bruce Wilkinson, and published by a tiny firm in Sisters, Ore., has sold a Grisham-like 3.5 million copies and advanced this week to No. 1 on the New York Times Advice, How-to & Miscellaneous best-sellers list--even though the Times does not count books sold in religious bookstores. Says Lynn Garrett, religion editor at Publishers Weekly: "It's a raging success, and I think it's going...
...companies are generally more willing to invest in the hardware and software that are needed to make long-distance supervision work. "Surprisingly, one of the biggest problems is that some people will not fork over the cash for the technology," says Mareen Duncan Fisher, a consultant based in Portland, Ore., and co-author of The Distance Manager...
...municipal governments are working to duplicate such successes. In 1993, Portland, Ore., became the first U.S. city to implement its own CO2-reduction plan, joining a global partnership of municipal governments that eventually included Denver; Minneapolis, Minn.; Copenhagen; and Helsinki. The goal was to slash CO2 emissions 20% below 1990 levels by 2010. Portland's strategy involved a six-point program that included synchronizing traffic lights, planting 75,000 acres of trees (which absorb carbon dioxide) and buying low-CO2 vehicles for the city's fleet...