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Payroll City St. Helens, a town of about 12,00, lies along a riverfront rust belt that extends northwest from Portland as the Columbia River leads to the Pacific Ocean. From the downtown shoreline, where the historic courthouse stands near the chain-link fence surrounding an aging lumberyard, one can watch freighters laden with Chinese goods heading east to Portland and then watch them returning with little or no American merchandise out to the open ocean. (See pictures of the high-seas border patrol...
...dual-match win. “While we didn’t play as well as we would have liked, a lot of good work was done over spring break,” captain Mike Shore said. “We were just trying to get the rust out and that’s what [the California trip] is all about.” Mayer and Amira both shot 84 on the day, while UCR’s five and six—Bruce Doucett and Daniel Brainard—shot 81 and 82, respectively. Four more Crimson golfers competed...
...golfers placed within the top eight, and four within the top twelve. “It was a really successful day,” coach Kevin Rhoads said. “All the other teams can play through the wintertime, and we’re trying to shake off rust...to be as sharp, at least for a day, as some of those other schools is very encouraging.” The squad’s overall performance was especially impressive considering UCLA is the nation’s top-ranked team, and Berkeley and Stanford are both within...
...year and someone we will have to watch out for all season long,” Charles said. “We held our own against Roger Williams with a 3-2 record against them,” Himler added. Harvard appeared to have no trouble shaking off the rust in its first action in about four months, as the Crimson ended the first of two full round robins among the eight competing teams on day one of the regatta with a 6-1 record. This quick start propelled Harvard into the gold round robin on day two, where, along...
...nearly 8.5 million people would be working in those industries by 2030. In the U.S., everything from solar power to energy efficiency is potentially poised to take off if Obama can pass carbon-capping legislation, as he has pledged - and many of those green jobs could come in the Rust Belt states that are bleeding manufacturing employment today. "What a cap does is open up the market and create a river of investment," says Steve Cochran, the national climate campaign director for the Environmental Defense Fund, which just launched a website to track the movement called Less Carbon, More Jobs...