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...with his college track coach and a bunch of running geeks who would do anything to avoid a real job. But this won't be a jog in the park. Last week the company announced a restructuring that landed heavily on its sports center-cum-headquarters in Beaverton, Ore., where about 250 employees were laid off. "When you grow quickly," says Thomas Clarke, the biomechanics Ph.D. who is president and chief operating officer, "sometimes you have layers you don't need; sometimes you have some areas that aren't as focused...
...raucous heyday 80 years ago, this Montana mining town was known as the richest hill on earth. Its rocky soil yielded millions of tons of copper ore, used to make the wires that spread power and light and phones across the nation. Then, 16 years ago, the giant strip mine was closed, and the pumps that kept it dry were turned off for good...
...innocent Iraqi civilians. When did Iraqi lives become so expendable? Aren't we the country that touts the value of human life? Are we to believe that Iraq is the only country in the world developing chemical and biological weapons? Just what is our real agenda? DOUG WAGNER Beaverton, Ore...
...been so much expectancy--with caution, this time--for peace. The fishing was good too. In the gulf, off the coast of Louisiana, speckled trout were swarming in the bays and bayous, and tarpon appeared a full month earlier than usual. Said Bill Tugman, editor of the weekly Reedsport (Ore.) Port Umpqua Courier: "The salmon are running and the trout and striped bass, and they even say the shad feel like taking a fly this year. Let Moscow do its worst...
...sudden mood that had swept the nation. It had been growing for months. Bomb shelters were on sale in Los Angeles, but hardly anyone was buying them. Californians were more interested in buying swimming pools--at the rate of 25,000 a year. Mrs. C.T. Higgins of Portland, Ore., who four years ago had the city's first private, backyard underground shelter, granted that the family had been thinking about converting it into a walk-in deep freeze. Oregon Journal Staffer Doug Baker made an admission in print: he had eaten the last can of sardines out of the family...