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...horror a slow death can be, have trouble with the idea of speeding up the process. The American Medical Association remains opposed to any aid-in-dying laws, and the group speaks for a lot of its members. "When a doctor writes a prescription for lethal drugs," says Portland, Ore., radiologist Kenneth Stevens, "the message to the patient is, 'I don't value you or your life...
Dick Farris, a Portland photographer, saw his father and brother felled by incurable pancreatic cancer. When he came down with the same condition, "he asked his friends for a gun," says his widow Gloria. "He could smell the decay inside himself." But after getting the prescription from his family doctor, she recalls, "he was able to relax, knowing he had control over his death." He chose to die on a Sunday morning, surrounded by his wife's three daughters and 9-year-old granddaughter. Says Gloria: "He told us, 'If I had any more love in this room...
This culinary showman, whom critics have called a "tech chef" and an "avant-garde artiste," grew up in Portland, Ore., the inquisitive son of an engineer. He worked in several kitchens across the country before persuading Charlie Trotter to hire him at his esteemed eponymous Chicago restaurant in 1999. There, Cantu invented a hands-free emulsion blender for the kitchen. "I started seeing a place for crazy ideas," he says. While at Trotter's, where he was promoted to sous chef, he filed the first of his 38 kitchen-utensil patents. In early 2004, he opened Moto and soon became...
...People will never be happy so long as their greed exceeds their needs and they don't comprehend the meaning of the word enough. Hart Sprager Portland, Oregon...
...Portland, Ore.-based trio recorded its 2003 debut, “I Am the Fun Blame Monster,” using “Deeler,” a proprietary computer program written entirely by Brent Knopf, their giddy keyboardist. Knopf’s ace coding allowed the band to compose complex pop suites by looping and sequencing live improvisations into tricky recursive structures. The components of its instrumental arrangements swooped in and fell out of trapdoors, constantly intertwining and unraveling like the title’s dorkily brilliant anagram (“The First Menomena Album?...