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...gold is pretty much empty right now." ARCHBISHOP JOHN G. VLAZNY, after his Portland, Oregon, archdiocese became the first in the U.S. to file for bankruptcy as a result of sexual-abuse lawsuits against its priests. Claims have cost the archdiocese more than $53 million...
Enter VocationVacations, the innovative new travel company based in Portland, Ore., that lets people try out their fantasy jobs in a low-risk way--while they are on vacation from their real work. "The time has come when people are ready to start thinking outside the cubicle," says company founder Brian Kurth, himself a refugee from corporate America. "This allows them to test the waters in a safe way. These are baby steps into a possible new life...
...after losing his job in the dotcom bust, Kurth decided to leave Chicago and follow his passion. Instead of taking another corporate job, he ended up in Portland working in marketing for a Sonoma County--based vintner. "I realized that lots of people would like to do that sort of thing but aren't ready to risk their security in search of a dream," says Kurth...
Died. Larry Capune, 61, long-distance paddleboarder who logged 16,063 miles along America's coastlines during eight epic solo trips from 1964 to 1987; of cancer; in Newport Beach, Calif. The Hollywood-born lifeguard's longest journey was a 4,255-mile trek from Portland, Maine, to Corpus Christi, Texas. Over the years, he was bitten by a sea turtle, a bluefish and a dog; hit by a tanker once and by freighters twice; and smacked in the head by a Coke bottle thrown by a pier owner who said Capune was scaring the fish...
RELEASED. BRANDON MAYFIELD, 37, U.S. lawyer arrested as a material witness in the March terrorist bombings in Madrid; in Portland, Ore. Pending a grand jury hearing, he cannot leave the state and must ask permission to leave his house...