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...took a year off to decide whether to come to college,” he says. In the interim, he earned an apprenticeship with a Portland, Oregon ballet company and applied—successfully—to Harvard...
...pretty jaded, but I had no idea that peoplewere getting sick of restaurants. Apparently, though, hipster foodies in cities from Portland, Ore., to Melbourne, Australia, find the whole look-at-the-menu, eat-the-food, pay-the-check monotony so soul crushing that they're taking refuge in underground restaurants arranged by groups like the Oakland, Calif., outfit Ghetto Gourmet. You pay online, show up at someone's house and sit next to strangers while an off-duty chef prepares a fixed menu of whatever surreal creations he or she has always wanted to try: rabbit adobo, fried grasshoppers...
...aggrieved property owners have filed 2,724 claims seeking $6.1 billion in compensation. Under the law, local authorities can "pay or waive," and so far, strapped for funds, they are mostly choosing to waive zoning rules. As a result, some Oregonians fear that sprawl will soon strangle Portland's famous greenbelt...
Many dreamers ask for family trips so their loved ones can remember happy times together. Dee Appel, 61, had worked with Making Memories in Portland, Ore., for two years when she learned her breast cancer had returned and spread to her liver. During a local TV appearance in which Appel planned to promote a fund raiser, her colleagues surprised her by awarding her wish for a "grammy camp" in Colorado with her daughter, son-in-law and three grandchildren. Appel invited the kids' other grandmother, who had lung cancer, to come along. The grandkids and their two grandmas--both "bald...
Dean Kamen could make his Segway the transporter of this century simply by sprinkling a few on college campuses across the country. Our young people would acquire another addiction, along with their iPods and notebook computers. Once indoctrinated, they would spread the seeds after graduation. DAVID P. BOGARDUS Portland...