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...league-best 67 wins. Although they drew a dangerous Sacramento King squad in the first round of the playoffs, there was little doubt in most critics' minds that the Lakers would sweep through Jason Williams and Chris Webber on their way to an inevitable Western Conference showdown with the Portland Blazers. After all, hadn't Phil Jackson led his team to a 24-1 record in his last eight first-round series as coach...
...says, while sitting in a Manhattan restaurant, eating what he keeps referring to as "adult food" ("These greens are a little bitter"). "I was short and all, but I wasn't picked on." Now, Sacco, still boyish looking, says he has abandoned most of his belongings and left Portland, Ore., for New York City. He's sleeping on a friend's couch in Brooklyn while attempting to break into the national media and maybe pick up some magazine assignments--covering the wars in Africa, for example, or the Rudy Giuliani-Hillary Clinton race. But he concedes there isn't much...
...surrounding English villages, many state and local governments in the U.S. are trying to concentrate growth in some places while sparing others. Glendening has decreed that roads and sewer lines will be provided only in designated areas. The oldest American experiment along these lines is the growth boundary around Portland, Oregon. Since 1979 development has been forbidden outside an area that covers 24 municipalities and three counties. The plan has kept sprawl in check, but competition for limited space has made the city an expensive place to live. Even if governments have the best intentions, growth boundaries are hard...
...home computer with a $300 software package called Animation:Master by a little company called Hash Inc. Alien Song has been so popular that Navone gets hundreds of e-mails and many job offers. He now works as an animator at Pixar, maker of Toy Story. KEN BAER Portland...
...declare that it is not as good as in-person education implies that what occurs in classrooms is the model to be emulated. This attitude prompts me to ask, Who is naive about how a digitized society will access learning? MICHAEL BEAUDOIN Professor of Education University of New England Portland, Maine...