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...would have ferocious fights, and Allen would, after a Hodgkin's disease scare, quit the company and become estranged. But Gates worked hard to repair the relationship and eventually lured Allen, who is now one of the country's biggest high-tech venture-capital investors (and owner of the Portland Trail Blazers), back onto the Microsoft board. "We like to talk about how the fantasies we had as kids actually came true," Gates says. Now, facing their old classroom building at Lakeside is the modern brick Allen/Gates Science Center. (Gates lost the coin toss...
...forced one manufacturer, Dow Corning, to seek pre-emptive bankruptcy. Yet many medical and legal experts have long suspected that the blame laid on implants is based on "junk science." Last week, in a bold opinion that surprised legal experts across the country, a federal district court judge in Portland, Oregon, endorsed that view. Expert testimony linking implants to "any systemic illness or syndrome or autoimmune disorder of any kind," Judge Robert E. Jones declared, was so lacking in scientific credibility that it didn't belong in the courtroom...
...discrimination in the workplace. Declaring that such discrimination is illegal naively assumes that the institutionalized and dangerously covert racist attitudes that made affirmative action necessary in the first place can be legislated away. It fails to ask the bottom-line question, Who has the power here? DANIEL A. MILLS Portland, Oregon...
Loretta E. Kim '99, who hails from Portland, Oregon, says that although she was disappointed that she could not join her family for the holiday, she believes a cross-country trip is simply impractical and expensive...
Bruun, a 30-year-old superachiever, is loaded with ideas for growing the economy and limiting government. He believes in term limits, privatization and a 17% flat tax with substantial exemptions and deductions for charity. A fiscal conservative, he may be able to count on G.O.P. votes in Portland's exclusive section of Dunthorpe, but the working-class and middle-class neighborhoods in the rest of the district are staunchly Democratic. And though he vows to protect Medicare, his platform of budget cuts may rattle the strong senior-citizen vote that helped keep Democrat Ron Wyden in this seat...