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 Thomas Beatie, 34, shocked the whole world when he announced he was pregnant. Nobody believed that the role that Arnold Schwarzenegger interpreted in Junior would become real, but last year thousands of photos appeared of a real man carrying a baby! The weird thing is that Beatie used to be a woman, who later underwent surgery to become...
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 The Capitol in Oregon was added to the National Register of Historic Buildings in 1988. In 1855 a fire destroyed the state’s first Capitol and a second blaze in 1935 modeled on the U.S. Capitol. This current building in Oregon has been designed by Francis Keally and it was dedicated on October 1, 1938.Another fire caused big damage to...
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A 48-year-old non-conformist man succeeded Sunday in conquering the American skies, flying about 230
miles for nine hours across the Oregon
state. On this third attempt, this time successful , he used a lawn chair rigged with more than
150 helium-filled balloons.
Having a GPS gadget, an altimeter
and coffee, Kent Couch, owner...
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 More than 300,000 people support the
so-called “Death With Dignity” initiative. The estimated 320,000 signatures guarantee
the place of Initiative 1000 on the November ballot.
If the initiative is approved, it would
allow doctors to write prescriptions for mentally competent, terminally ill
patients.
The initiative was filled...
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 It has been previously reported that the six sea lions found
dead in traps were killed by gun shots. Now, officials think that the cause of
their death was quite different: overheating. The change comes due to the fact that necropsies made by experts resulted no bullets. The National Marine Fisheries
Service said Wednesday that all...
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 New pieces of information came up regarding the six sea
lions shot dead in Columbia River traps.
According to The Associated Press, investigators think the
killers managed to get through the tricky waters into the restricted area,
dropped the doors of two metal cages and then began shooting with a
high-powered rifle at the six...
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 Cheryl Rowe is the driver that took the wrong way. Her mistake
killed herself and also an 8-month pregnant woman south of Roseburg on Interstate-5. Rowe from Albany was driving a 2002
white Pontiac Grand Am. She was going northbound in the southbound lanes when
she hit the car which had Chanthea Prak of Fresno the 20-year-old pregnant...
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 Although the sea lions are federally protected by the Marine
Mammal Protection Act., several of them were found shot dead in river traps.
The traps had been put there to capture sea lions, which eat
endangered salmon. Their bodies were discovered by the wildlife officials Sunday
at noon.
“In each of the two traps were three...
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 The Environmental Protection Agency was accused of
“foot-dragging” to avoid regulating greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles.
More that 18 states sued the Bush administration for taking no action
concerning the issue of global warming.
In a petition signed Wednesday several states’ officials had
required the EPA...
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 The FBI is currently analyzing a parachute discovered buried
by children in southwest Washington
in order to determine whether it belonged to famous hijacker D.B. Cooper.
The children found it while they were playing outside near
Amboy and due to the recent media coverage of the Cooper case, they rushed their
father to call the...
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 20 inches of snow fell around Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and 71
homes have been evacuated due to the avalanches, which destroyed four houses
and a garage in northwest of Ketchum. The heavy snow has left without
electricity thousands of people from Idaho, Utah, Colorado and Washington.
John Livingston, a National Weather Service...
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 More than 300 people have been stranded in snow on a portion
of Interstate 5 in the mountainous region north of Los Angeles after a fierce
winter storm struck Southern California, authorities informed Thursday.
Hundreds of vehicles were stuck after the powerful storm
forced the closure of the interstate in the Grapevine area....
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 Interstate 5 opened to vehicle traffic just before noon Friday, with all lanes open to both cars and trucks. Crews worked around the clock to get the vital highway back open.On Thursday, one lane of traffic in each direction was opened at 5 p.m., but only to large commercial trucks over 10,000 gross vehicle weight.Friday morning, the...
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 Local media report state that National Guard troops in the
northwest U.S. state of Oregon are evacuating residents in a flooded town,
while thousands of residents in the region are without power.
A National Guard spokesman says troops are using boats to
rescue residents caught in the floods in the towns of Vernonia and...
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 A British court Thursday approved the extradition to the US of Abu
Hamza, an Egyptian-born Muslim cleric who is currently serving a
seven-year jail term in Britain.
Hamza, 49, is wanted in the US for trial on 11 charges, alleging
that he "funded" terrorism, organized a training camp in the state of
Oregon between 1998...
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 California Governer Arnold Schwarzenegger intensified his battle with
the Bush administration over environmental issues Thursday, announcing
that his state was suing the government to gain the right to enact its
own laws limiting auto emissions.
The maverick Republican politician and former movie star accused
the federal...
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 The western area of the United States are swept by savage wildfires, authorities reporting a small success in their battle with the blazes on Monday after rain fell in several regions.Officials from South Dakota reported the death of one person who tried to save some of his goods from the burning house, 27 residences homes being...
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Who would’ve thought that regular rainfall may be a cause of autism? This is what researchers claim, based on a study published Tuesday in the journal Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine: believe it or not, regular rainfall may help trigger autism in children. After looking at data from Oregon, California and Washington...
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 Over 2 million children in the United States don't have health insurance, although at least one of their parents does, a new study shows. Researchers looked at records of almost 40,000 children and teenagers and were surprised to learn that more than 3 percent of them had no health insurance. Dr. Jennifer DeVoe, MD, from Oregon Health...
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While drinking either a chocolate milk shake or a tasteless solution, MRI brain scans have been performed on 43 women in order to find how much activity was in their brains' pleasure centers whilst serving the food.Overweight or obese people tend to suppose they get more satisfaction from food than other people do, that they “experience...
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A transsexual who became
known as the 'pregnant man' has given birth to a baby girl, US
broadcaster ABC News reported Thursday. The natural birth took place at a hospital in Bend, Oregon, on Sunday, the broadcaster said quoting an unnamed source.
Thomas Beatie, 34, was born female, but underwent a hormonal sex change
and had...
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 Thomas Beatie was born a woman, named Tracy
Lagondino, but she went through a sex change, having chest reconstruction and
taking testosterone to develop masculine traits. Trcay kept her ovaries and
uterus.
After all these surgeries she became Thomas
Beatie, a transgender man with specific female organs which helped him to
become...
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 An anthrax scare, which eventually proved to be a hoax,
closed the Linn County Courthouse on Monday.Early in the morning, a janitor found threats written on the
outside door, warning there were some envelopes containing anthrax inside the
courthouse and in the nearby area. Local media sources informed that the note
said there were 10...
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Reigning world and Olympic
champion Jeremy Wariner was upset by LaShawn Merritt Thursday in the
final of the 400-metre of the US Olympic track and field trials in
Eugene, Oregon.
Merritt finished in 44 seconds while a few strides behind Warnier
finished in 44.20 seconds. Merritt also beat Wariner at a June 1 Golden
League race in...
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A strong backwind aided Tyson Gay in sprinting 100 meters in 9.68 seconds at the U.S. Olympic trials Sunday in Eugene, Oregon.
Though the time was the fastest ever it doesn't count as a world
record due to the 4.1-metres-per-second tailwind. Anything above 2.0 is
not allowed for record purposes.
Behind Gay was Walter Dix at 9.80...
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 This year is probably going to be the smallest ocean salmon harvest on record, as the West Coast fisheries agreed on Thursday to halt all commercial salmon fishing of the coasts of California and Oregon.The Pacific Fishery Management Council voted to cancel all commercial salmon fishing, but decided to allow limited recreational fishing...
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 This week, Verizon announced its plans to make the FiOS Internet connection system available in ten more states. As of next week, people from Washington, Virginia, Maryland, Oregon, California, Delaware, Indiana, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Texas will be given access to Verizon’s technology.According to network consultant George Ou,...
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 An Oregon man’s home was robbed by almost all
his important possessions after a hoaxer had posted an ad on the popular
advertisements web site, Craigslist.org. The hoaxer impersonating the man
posted two ads on the web site in which he said that he had had to leave the
town suddenly and that he allowed any interested person to come...
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 The rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers has sued Showtime Networks on Monday, charging it for using the name of “Californication” for a television series, as this was also the name of a band’s 1999 album and of a song on it.The band said that “Californication” is their signature album and single, it characterizes their career and it...
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 The salmonella-contaminated tomatoes have
sickened more than 270 people, but investigators still continue the work to
confirm the source of the outbreak, which remained elusive. At least 43 people
have been hospitalized since mid-April and May, when authorities found cases of
salmonella infections in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho,...
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 According to U.S. health officials, a new and virulent strain of adenovirus, which frequently causes the common cold, has spread in parts of the United States, killing 10 people and putting dozens into hospitals.A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report detailed cases of people ill since May 2006 with a strain of the virus...
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 The joy of the advance of the Oregon team during the game against the Arizona State has vanished when quarterback Dennis Dixon went down with a knee injury. Star QB Dixon threw four touchdown passes that helped Oregon win by 32 to 23 over Sun Devils (No. 4 BCS, No. 6 AP), just before suffering the injury on an 11-yard run at the...
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 Four persons that have pretended
they are own an academic institution in trying to defraud Microsoft Corp. into
giving them software discounts have been sentenced to prison because of what
they have tried to do. According to the United States’ Office, the four
persons have been also required to restitute no less than $40...
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 Intel Corp. has announced today
that it is to open a new factory for hurrying the production of its microprocessors
using the 45-nanometer manufacturing process, which is expected to be used in
the upcoming Penryn microchips. Intel’s Fab 32 from Chandler, Arizona,
will use the brand new 45-nanometer manufacturing process for...
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 A student from the Western Oregon University
has probably become his colleagues’ hero, after he has (accidentally)
discovered a breach in the university’s system and has then escaped from being expelled.
The student has discovered, by mistake – as it has then appeared – a file that
contained personal data on the university’s publicly...
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 A new study found that people with a large hippocampus – an
area at the base of the brain, which is involved with memory – may be protected
from some of the effects of dementia. The Alzheimer’s Society said the study
was a “relatively small” one. Researchers at Oregon Health and Science
University in Portland compared the brains of...
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 The total
cost of back pain treatments has risen 65 percent in the last 10 years,
according to Reuters. But, apparently, no matter how much money people spend on
medication and various procedures, they still cannot get rid of the pains.
Researchers
stated on Tuesday that the costs of back pain treatment, estimated at...
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 According to federal health official statements on Thursday, a new strain of a rare cold virus has caused 10 deaths in four states, including seven in Oregon, during the past 11/2 years.Oregon health officials called the new viral strain cause for concern but not cause for public alarm. The new "bug" is a variant of a rare type...
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 According to researchers in Oregon, they succeeded in creating the world's first fully formed, cloned monkey embryos and harvested batches of stem cells from them, a feat that, if replicated in people, could allow production of replacement tissues or organs with no risk of rejection. Successful creation of the cloned embryos, each from a...
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 A new study from the Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, has found that fish oil, containing Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, has a significant positive effect on patients suffering from Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Omega-3 fatty acids, which can also be found in eggs and linseed, among others, contain eicosapentaenoic acid...
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Six students from Michigan State were hospitalized after they got sickened by a bad food poisoning. The E. Coli outbreak seems to go on two weeks after the statewide outbreak ended. Besides the students, 24 other cases of E. Coli food poisoning were reported in Michigan. Seven of the cases were reported in MSU and the others in several...
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 The California Department of Public Health warned consumers
not to buy alfalfa sprouts manufactured by two Californian companies, as tests
have found they may contain Salmonella.
The tests were made after several illnesses have been
reported across the state. The manufacturers voluntarily decided to recall
their products from...
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 According to researchers at the University
of Oregon meditation is the best method
to relief yourself of extra stress. The research was conducted by comparing
students who used relaxation techniques to those given just 20 minutes of
meditation training. The experimental group received five days of meditation
training using a...
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 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a warning urging people to avoid eating raw oysters harvested from an area of the southern tip of Hood Canal in Washington, saying they are contaminated with the Gram-negative bacterium Vibrio parahaemolyticus bacteria.At least six people have become ill in California and Washington State...
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 While exploring Paisley Caves in the Cascade Range of Oregon, archaeologists have discovered evidence that undeniably places humans in North America some 14,000 years ago.The preserved scat fragments, known as coprolites, containing human protein and DNA, bring about a major change in scientists’ perspectives. Humans were thought to have...
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 A research team at the Oregon National Primate Research Center had reported a technical breakthrough, according to The Independent, on Monday. They have succeeded to clone for the first time embryos from adult monkeys, by deriving embryonic stem cells from a blastocyst, through somatic cell transfer.The development might bring scientists...
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 The Marmot Dam of Oregon’s Sandy
River has been recently started to be demolished after the Portland General
Electric Company and other about 22 different company have decided that this
will be the first phase of a the $17 million Bull Run Hydroelectric Project
plan of “decommissioning”; the plan has been also approved by the...
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 India-born surgeon Jayant Patel, nicknamed “Doctor Death,” returned to Australia to face charges relating to the deaths of more than a dozen patients. Patel was taken into police custody in the United States after being extradited. On Monday, he was granted a conditional bail by a Queensland court after arriving in a Qantas Airways...
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 The queue outside the Colosseum is long and winding. But with aching feet and the sun burning, waiting for an hour or so to get into the ancient amphitheatre does not seem an option.
A few metres away, two young Italians dressed as gladiators or Roman legionaries are having their picture taken by an enthusiastic tourist. Surely,...
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 As a cause to the record rise of freight and fuel costs, the
Christmas tree shoppers might see themselves forced to pay more for the joy of
children and the shelter for presents.
Another cause for the rising prices might be the extended
dry fall season, along with the growing demand and the weak dollar, which makes
the trees that...
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 Gasoline prices are expected to rise on Memorial Day holiday, but as fuel inventories build, they should fall by mid-June, AAA Oregon reports.In the past week, the average price per gallon of regular gasoline rose by more than 12 cents to $3.21. In the same period, Oregon's average price held steady at $3.41, and in three of the four...
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 Marsha Garces Williams filed a divorce petition
in San Francisco on March 21, ending her
marriage to Hollywood actor Robbie Williams,
56, citing irreconcilable differences as the reason for their split, a spokesperson declared.
Garces, 50, and Williams met while she was working as a nanny for
Williams’ son Zachary, born...
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 American actor Gordon Scott, best known for his portrayal of Tarzan in five films from 1955 to 1960, has died at age 80 on April 30 at Johns Hopkins Hospital of pulmonary complications following several heart surgeries.Scott was born Gordon Merrill Werschkul in Portland, Oregon. He served in the Army from 1944 and was honorably...
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