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...does one woman get the chance to “go everywhere?” The pieces in My Kind of Place have a range of settings, from a Manhattan high school a few blocks from Orlean’s home to a trailer park in Portland, Oregon to, yes, Mt. Fuji, with a focus on the subcultures that flourish out of the common view...
Removing the Crimson’s opening-game, 3-2 loss to then-No. 6 Portland from the equation, Harvard has allowed just six goals in its last 11 games and has pitched five shutouts...
...quite potent. Asking a presidential candidate to run a campaign without a focus group is like asking a physician to reach a diagnosis without a stethoscope. Candidates should view a focus group as a simple tool, not a murky crystal ball requiring a wizard to decipher it. Gary Blackton Portland, Oregon, U.S. Klein argued that polling has become "less scientific and more speculative. It means polls should be trusted only to verify broad shifts ... rather than specific point spreads." Even this may be optimistic, since the flaws in polls may be systemic and not random. I would guess that poll...
...this is it!" The frantic warning was radioed at precisely 8:31 a.m. on that fateful Sunday by Volcano Expert David Johnson, 30, who had climbed to a monitoring site five miles from Washington State's Mount St. Helens in the snow-capped Cascade Range, 40 miles northeast of Portland, Ore. He wanted to peer through binoculars at an ominous bulge building up below the crater, which had been rumbling and steaming for eight weeks, and report his observations to the U.S. Geological Survey. Seconds after his shouted message, a stupendous explosion of trapped gases, generating about 500 times...
...Portland native Dunbar N. Carpenter ’08 said he was optimistic about the possible research opportunities the eruption would open for geologists...