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Highways in rotten condition are scattered across the nation. I-35 south of Kansas City, Kans., is known as a deathtrap for shock absorbers, while the pockmarked I-5 south of Portland, Ore., and I-20 in Louisiana are renowned for testing drivers' nerves and fannies...
...school children to foreign languages in a new way. With a small amount of federal funding, the county instituted "partial-immersion" language programs in eight schools in Japanese, Spanish and French. Similar experiments in partial immersion can be spotted around the country in such cities as Eugene and Portland, Ore., and Anchorage. The idea is that children's minds are stretched and their skills enhanced when they are introduced to any foreign language. By being taught math and science in Japanese, the students unconsciously acquire the language. "Learning another language opens new pathways of connections in the brain, basically connecting...
...will not long be dependent on the kindness of strangers. Accompanied by her sister-in-law, last week Nancy Myatt of Dickson, Tenn., flew to Portland, Ore., to be reunited with the man she recognized from news photographs as her long-lost father John Kingery. Myatt found Kingery at the Laurelhurst Care Center, a nursing home from which he had been removed in early March by her half sister Sue Gifford. Myatt explained that she lost touch with her father, a former autoworker, after he remarried in 1964 and just "slipped away from us." After a time, Myatt assumed...
Melhorn says he was employed by IBM for 27years, and served as chief financial officer ofthe United Methodist Church in Portland, Ore.,before becoming Officer for Administration andDevelopment at Memorial Church...
...publicity clearly helped reduce the damage to U.S. computers. It certainly didn't hurt the group with the most to gain: the folks who make their living providing protection against virus attacks. Central Point Software in Beaverton, Ore., for example, reported that sales of its $129 antiviral program jumped 700% in one month. Central Point gave away thousands of copies of another, smaller program designed to destroy Michelangelo and a second virus set to strike this week, on Friday the 13th. But included in that freebie was a clever marketing tool for the company's full-powered program: a list...