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...have no problem with immigrants coming to America. However, they must do two things: enter legally, and learn to speak English. I want to preserve the culture of the U.S. BARB ANDRESSEN Portland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 2, 2001 | 7/2/2001 | See Source »

Geocaching is a new sport made possible by a satellite-based technology called GPS (global positioning system), which enables users to pinpoint their exact latitude and longitude on the earth's surface to an absurd number of decimal places. Last year early adopters in the Portland, Ore., area began hiding little stashes of CDs, action figures, Band Aids and other goodies in exotic locations--on a mountaintop, underwater, hanging off a cliff face--and posting the coordinates on the Internet as a challenge to their fellow nerds. The idea is that once you find a cache, you take the prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Geocaching | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

...employment personality tests. It's no mystery. These tests simply provide documented reasons to turn down an application from a person of an undesired race, sex or age or with a physical handicap, deformity or other characteristic for which discrimination is illegal or actionable. GEOFFREY A. GASS Portland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 25, 2001 | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

...running away from home. I would stay in downtown Portland with all the street kids, we'd go to clubs, sometimes somebody had an apartment we could stay in, sometimes we'd sleep in parks, sometimes we wouldn't sleep at all. The summer before I turned 15 I left home for good and was on the streets for most of the summer. I would panhandle, sit somewhere downtown and ask people for money. My priority was alcohol first, cigarettes and food second. Pretty much from the time I got up to the time I went to sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wasted Days of Youth | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

Other colleges in the area include Oregon State University in Corvallis, and Reed, Lewis & Clark and the University of Portland in Portland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: UNIVERSITY OF OREGON/EUGENE: Seasons and Seuss | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

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