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...first storm came barreling in off the Pacific in the early hours of Dec. 26, dumping snow by the foot on the mountains of Washington, Oregon and California and paralyzing Seattle, which rarely sees anything but rain. Then a second storm rolled in, and after that a third. By New Year's Day the Northwest and British Columbia had been pounded by a week of unrelentingly foul and often deadly weather...
...support. In 1991, Quill, a New York physician, wrote in a medical journal about assisting a suicide. Meanwhile, retired Michigan pathologist Jack Kevorkian began a string of assisted or supervised deaths that now stands at 46. Three times Michigan authorities charged Kevorkian with murder, and thrice juries cleared him. Oregon voters seemed of similar mind when, in 1994, they passed a referendum allowing assisted suicide, and a nationwide Gallup poll in April showed that a 75% majority favored allowing doctors to end the lives of the terminally ill. Yet several other states have batted down Oregon-like initiatives...
...Internet with antifluoridation Web pages, citizens across the U.S. are increasingly suspicious of what the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) considers "one of the 10 great public-health achievements of the 20th century." In the past three years, legislation to encourage fluoridation has been defeated or tabled in Oregon, Arkansas, Nebraska and Hawaii. New battles are brewing in New Jersey, Massachusetts and across the Canadian border in Montreal...
...Iraq. Paying for the continuing occupation of Iraq with private funds would allow the hawks to support a cause they believe in and at the same time free up more federal money for the victims of natural disasters?a cause that many more Americans support. David W. McCreery Salem, Oregon...
...featured a reprehensible picture of a lifeless body floating facedown in the contaminated muck of New Orleans. That was disrespectful to the dead and their families. You may have intended to show readers the horrors of the aftermath of Katrina, but it was shock journalism. Michael Yonker Portland, Oregon...