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...transportation improved, thanks to the wheel, sailing ships and the domestication of donkeys, connections between far-flung villages and towns expanded dramatically. A flourishing international trade developed in copper ore, gold, ivory, grain, olive oil, wine and other wares. Explains anthropologist Brian Fagan of the University of California at Santa Barbara: "This was the beginning of a global economy...
...such an inescapable part of life in the Pacific Northwest that the Seattle tourism industry touts it as "liquid sunshine." This year, though, the slogan will have to be shelved in the face of the worst regionwide drought in decades. Along with other legendarily soaked cities like Portland, Ore., and Vancouver, B.C., Seattle has imposed water restrictions, urging citizens to take shorter showers and banning the use of lawn sprinklers. The lush, green vegetation has begun to turn brown. Mule deer does are having trouble finding enough food in the woods to produce milk for their fawns. The spring chinook...
...went at the Tournament of the Americas in Portland, Ore., last month, where the Argentines and everyone else came to pose for pictures with Michael, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird and their merry band of N.B.A. All-Star troubadours. In between, they played a little basketball. Very little. Take Cuba: with 3 1/ 2 min. remaining in the game, the team was behind by 70 points, and only the final horn saved it from losing by 100 or more. Panama dropped a cliff- hanger by a mere...
...politically correct are endlessly inventive. A high school in Portland, Ore., described a song as a "spiritual of color...
...white. His brother and sister are Black. His other brother is Iranian. And in 1980--about the same time Mount St. Helens erupted, Thomas says with a grin--Kerby ran away with a gay lover. Today, Kerby and Linda are best friends, living a few blocks apart in Portland, Ore. Every now and then, they tell their story on a TV talk show...