If you're a beef-eating, beer-guzzling, pick-up driving resident of heartland America, there's a good chance you escaped the housing bust. But pesto-chomping, chardonnay-sipping, hybrid-driving city-slickers were probably out of luck.
Temperatures reached 94 degrees by noon in Seattle, Washington, on Wednesday and were expected to keep climbling as a record heat wave gripped the Pacific Northwest.
While his rivals were preparing for the draft last month, Denver Nuggets VP of basketball operations Mark Warkentien was spending a week at Harvard Law School. Here is a little of what he was taught.
Airline schedules in the Pacific Northwest were returning to normal early Tuesday as thousands of travelers stranded by weekend winter storms tried to find seats to reach their destinations by Christmas.
The old warehouses of Portland's Pearl District are home to increasingly cool cultural diversions. Spend a weekend browsing the neighborhood's art galleries, snack on a pumpkin-pie cupcake and enjoy dinner and a show.
Even for a January splatter-fest movie, the Diane Lane gorefest is cruel and unusual punishment -- both for the cast and crew, and defenseless moviegoers
When the calendar turned to 2007, the heat went on and the weather just got weirder. January was the warmest first month on record worldwide -- 1.53 degrees above normal
A new generation is redefining the craft fair. No more crocheted tea cozies: These fairs rock.
When Elisabeth and Tom Merrill decided to sell their home in Wenatchee, Wash. (pop. 107,000), they braced themselves for a long slog.
Herewith, 25 observations after watching the United States win the Davis Cup for the first time since 1995 ...
If you're a beef-eating, beer-guzzling, pick-up driving resident of heartland America, there's a good chance you escaped the housing bust. But pesto-chomping, chardonnay-sipping, hybrid-driving city-slickers were probably out of luck.
Temperatures reached 94 degrees by noon in Seattle, Washington, on Wednesday and were expected to keep climbling as a record heat wave gripped the Pacific Northwest.
While his rivals were preparing for the draft last month, Denver Nuggets VP of basketball operations Mark Warkentien was spending a week at Harvard Law School. Here is a little of what he was taught.
Airline schedules in the Pacific Northwest were returning to normal early Tuesday as thousands of travelers stranded by weekend winter storms tried to find seats to reach their destinations by Christmas.
The old warehouses of Portland's Pearl District are home to increasingly cool cultural diversions. Spend a weekend browsing the neighborhood's art galleries, snack on a pumpkin-pie cupcake and enjoy dinner and a show.
Even for a January splatter-fest movie, the Diane Lane gorefest is cruel and unusual punishment -- both for the cast and crew, and defenseless moviegoers
When the calendar turned to 2007, the heat went on and the weather just got weirder. January was the warmest first month on record worldwide -- 1.53 degrees above normal
A new generation is redefining the craft fair. No more crocheted tea cozies: These fairs rock.
When Elisabeth and Tom Merrill decided to sell their home in Wenatchee, Wash. (pop. 107,000), they braced themselves for a long slog.
Herewith, 25 observations after watching the United States win the Davis Cup for the first time since 1995 ...
The outcry over Portland, Maine's decision to provide the pill to young girls shows that adults still have trouble discussing sex with each other, much less with our kids
The federal disaster exercises taking place this week are supposed to prepare us for a real dirty bomb attack. So something is missing
[Editor's note: Original online publication date: 7.25.07]
Home prices have shown few signs of any turnaround, and a new report sees the downward slide continuing.
In the winter, the residents of this Pacific Northwest city hunker down for the gray rain that drills the city sidewalks for days on end. Locals drink loads of strong coffee, read books and take up knitting with zeal reserved in other parts of the nation for church going or clubbing.
Long before holstered cellphones appeared on handymen's belts, another gadget won their hearts and hips: the Leatherman Pocket Survival Tool. Within three months of its first listing in a mail-order catalog, the multifunctional gizmo became essential for thousands of hikers, hunters, and knife enthusiasts. Since then, Leatherman tools have blasted into space with NASA astronauts, severed umbilical cords on newborns, and extracted shrapnel from American troops in Iraq.
Plenty of companies use the Internet to push their products at high schoolers, but few have made money by educating them there.
To Sarah Hart, chocolate is next to godliness. After learning that the cacao tree's Latin botanical name, Theobroma, means "food of the gods," she had a vision: edible gods and icons. With the help of a sculptor friend, her Portland, Ore., kitchen was soon populated with silicon molds for Buddhas in various poses, the Virgin of Guadalupe, Quan Yin, hamsa hands, Sacred Hearts, and Celtic crosses. Hart tempers and molds the chocolate, then paints it with edible 23-karat gold leaf. After selling her creations at the Portland Farmers Market, she opened an Alma Chocolate (almachocolate.com) storefront in 2006. With three employees and an expanded line that includes truffles, caramels, and bonbons, Hart still focuses on icons, which now include Ganesh and tattoo art. ("Mom" is a big seller.) Still, she says, "I have had people get mad and think that I'm being disrespectful. They don't know where I'm coming from." Hart is the daughter of a Presbyterian pastor and is a certified spiritual
Prices of existing U.S. single-family homes dropped in April, extending a string of negative annual returns that started in January, according to the Standard & Poor's/Case Shiller national home price index released Tuesday.
Question: I'm 55 years old and have saved only about $15,000 for retirement. Realizing I've started very late, I now set aside 10 percent of my income in my 401(k) plan. How much of my portfolio should I allocate to bonds? Do I even need bonds since I have so little money to protect? Maybe I should invest aggressively since $15,000 will not last very long anyway. - Jo, Portland, Oregon
The Boston Celtics can claim they are cursed after tumbling in the lottery for the second time in a decade. But the truth, confirmed yet again by Tuesday's miserable result, is that they never should have traded for Sebastian Telfair.
With its arena-sized farmers' markets and scarcity of brand-name retail chains, Portland celebrates local bounty and independent artisans. If you're one of the million tourists attending the 100th ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- The Portland Trail Blazers promoted Kevin Pritchard to their vacant general manager job Thursday, as reported earlier by SI.com's Ian Thomsen.
Rene Portland still has a job. And I am utterly stumped at how.
We've been patting ourselves on the back lately, celebrating how much progress the sports world has made in terms of racial equality. We're supposedly so colorblind that when two African-American coaches reached the Super Bowl last week, the general reaction was, "What? Dungy and Lovie are black? I hadn't noticed."
Question: My wife and I are self-employed. In addition to a mortgage of just under $400,000, we have a home equity line of credit on which we've borrowed $41,000, credit-card debt of $25,000, plus two car loans.
Democrats will be taking control of Congress when the new session begins in January. We asked CNN.com users to tell us what the Democrats' priorities should be. Here is a selection of your e-mails, some of which have been edited for length and clarity.
Many a traveler heading to the coast for a summer getaway has visions of heaping plates of fresh seafood. At these full-service fishmongers, sea creatures are on the brain all year long.
Forgive the bad pun, but global warming has become a hot topic in the mass media.
Americans taking to the roads during the July 4 holiday weekend are almost certain to encounter a traffic bottleneck somewhere, but the biggest is likely to be west of Portland, Oregon, the American Highway Users Alliance said Thursday.
Mike Zic, Bevinco, Portland, Ore.
Here at 72 in 72, we try to avoid spending time in the car. More time behind a steering wheel means less time on the practice tee (or the 19th hole!). The last thing you want to do on a golf-intensive vacation is chew up highway miles.
When ordering a bottle at Henrietta's Table, an upscale New American restaurant at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge, Mass., you can get Dom Perignon at $155 a bottle or the slightly fizzy West County...
The next contentious end-of-life issue: assisted suicide. How Oregon offers a way out.
In name and in practice, Bishops Barbershop's main focus is from the neck on up -- offering haircuts, colorings and other salon basics.
When Joe and Terie Wehage of Portland, Ore. bought a vacation house with another couple ten years ago, their goal was to find a retreat that could accommodate a growing family - they have five children between the ages of 8 and 18 - and bring in some rental income.
Sinclair Broadcasting's decision to air a program about John Kerry's antiwar activism has stirred up considerable political controversy, but the planned program may also cause some pain for Sinclair's business.
Scientists are closely watching Mount St. Helens after a small eruption spewed smoke and ash thousands of feet Friday before another earthquake rattled the volcano.
A long flight in economy class usually means cramped quarters and little room to exercise.
The archdiocese of Portland, Oregon, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Tuesday, just as the civil trials of two priests accused of sexual abuse were set to begin, Archbishop John Vlazny announced.
It wasn't exactly "Mister Gorbachev, tear down this wall." But President Bush's call to raze Abu Ghraib prison led the news from a speech that, judging from early reviews, did little to improve his sagging poll numbers or change the dynamics of another bad week. For him, that is.
The mother of a Portland lawyer detained as a material witness in the investigation of the deadly March 11 commuter train bombings in Madrid, Spain, said there's not "even a remote possibility" her son was involved with terrorism.
A lawyer in Portland, Oregon, has been taken into custody by the FBI in connection with the March 11 terror attacks in Madrid, law enforcement sources told CNN.
People looking for the low-carb lifestyle should head toward big cities on the coasts rather than the "breadbasket" in the Midwest, according to a new ranking of America's top 10 low-carb cities.
Events have proven: Provide licenses for men to marry men and women to marry women and you'll get a line at the door.
This may be our cheekiest "Best" yet: Take five of America's top food towns and pick a single great restaurant that's hip and lively, but not so happening that you can't conduct some serious busine...
>> May 3: POLKA DE MAYO Cinco de Mayo has devolved from commemorating a Mexican victory over the French in 1862 to an excuse for parties in el norte. In that spirit, polka enthusiasts in Portland, ...
For Lisa Glenn, a stay-at-home mother of three in Cross River, N.Y., turning her unfinished basement into a family rec room was an effort to reclaim the upstairs. For Gary Hirschkron, a Portland, O...
The corner doughnut shop generally doesn't slug it out with General Motors, except in one arena: advertising. People have the time and willingness to notice only so many sales pitches. That means e...
Most of the recent changes in the way Americans travel fall into the category of necessary inconveniences: heightened security measures, long airport waits, that sort of thing. But there is one cha...
Contrary to popular belief, it doesn't always rain in Portland. July and August combined, in fact, get an average of only seven days of rain. Weather aside, Portland's been experiencing a renaissance of sorts for nearly a decade now, and thanks to the progressive nature of its residents, the changes are happening in a refreshingly attractive and functional manner.
Contrary to popular belief, it doesn't always rain in Portland. July and August combined, in fact, get an average of only seven days of rain.
Inspired by New York, we went looking for other cities that feature a strong sense of community--as well as low crime, nice weather, low property taxes and excellent education. Here are six other g...
It's a great day to get funded! Now move!" Richard Friedman, CEO of event-coordinator firm Mindshare Ventures and the organizer of tonight's high-tech networking soiree, is policing the conference ...
While you were sleeping, they were up working--sorting packages, selling saws, creating software, mapping galaxies--unless, that is, you were up working too. Deep night, the once lonely landscape o...
Ask a hardhatted power engineer what is most needed to prevent California's electricity crisis from proliferating, undercutting America's vaunted productivity gains, cratering the economy, and eras...
You know the drill: You fly into town and corner the concierge, and by 8 P.M. you're cutting into your radicchio salad, sawing your planked Chateaubriand bouquetiere, and telling yourself what an a...
Some places are blessed with superb geography. Some are meccas for arts and culture. Others have great schools, low crime and a thriving job market. All of those things can make a place great. Yet ...
Picking a place to retire sounds easy enough: Just grab a map, find a town with clear skies and balmy weather, buy some sunblock, move, relax.
There's nothing like an inflight movie to make a cramped sojourn in coach class pass quickly. But what if you've already seen that sappy Julia Roberts film? Inmotion Pictures has an answer: In a gr...
By almost any standard, Powell's Books of Portland, Ore., is a groovy place. Renowned for its encyclopedic stock--including dictionaries in Apache, Zulu, and Klingon--Powell's is also big on readin...
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Experts still debate whether computers really save time and money. But Dr. Neal Kaforey, emergency-room chief at a Kaiser Permanente clinic in Cleveland, says there's no doubt they can save lives. ...
Anyone who can read a stock ticker knows that, as investments, houses are yesterday's news. After all, the Dow Jones industrial average is up 12% in the past five months; the last time the average ...
Location, location, lo...well, you know the story. Over the next year, look for Portland, Ore. to provide the highest housing appreciation among the 50 biggest U.S. metropolitan areas: an average p...
ANY DAY NOW I EXPECT $20 BILLION (ANNUAL sales) International Paper, the world's No. 1 paper producer, to complete its $3.5 billion purchase of $1.9 billion Federal Paper Board at $55 a share. That...
WELL, SURE, THE '80S, WITH THEIR RUNAWAY real estate values, are finito. Even so, the housing market has been mostly picking up since this decade's gloomy debut. And in '96--unlike in '95--home-pri...
IF YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT BUYING A house, beware of the fast-turnaround prequalifications that a growing number of mortgage lenders have begun to push. One national lender, Citicorp Mortgage in Stam...
What's the ultimate way to ensure that your product meets the idiosyncratic tastes of today's demanding consumers? Some San Francisco entrepreneurs think they've got the answer: Let the customers m...
Opportunities for great house deals will improve next year-but only for buyers who can easily qualify for costlier mortgages. Everyone else will have to work harder than they did in 1994 to achieve...
Editor-in-Chief Jason McManus Editorial Director Henry Muller Editor of New Media Walter Isaacson
Time pressed and value obsessed, consumers aren't hitting the malls like they used to. As a result, retailers are scrambling to put excitement back into shopping. How? By taking off the wraps and e...
PORTLAND, OREGON -- State welfare officials say they have stopped paying for some welfare recipients' speeding tickets . . . ''We believed it was good policy, and for years there had never been an ...
As the solid black door slides open, you hear an excited voice over a loudspeaker: ''Ladies and gentlemen, the 15-year veteran of the National Football League, D-a-a-a-n Fouts!'' The crowd roars. T...
IN ARCHITECTURE as in so much else, the 1980s was the decade of excess. It was an era of overbuilding -- in both senses of the word: Not only did developers put up too many office structures, but a...
THINK OF the great American business centers, the kinds of places where the entrepreneurial spirit thrives and tremendous wealth blossoms. Go ahead. Name a few. Columbus, Ohio? Northwestern Arkansa...
The campaign to reduce West Coast logging to save the northern spotted owl has been about as welcome to the forest-products industry as a splinter in the foot. Executives at lumber companies such a...
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Jason McManus EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Richard B. Stolley CORPORATE EDITOR Gilbert Rogin
Wouldn't you know? The retail frontier that Bloomingdale's blazed in 1986 with two experimental Bloomie's Express shops at New York's Kennedy Airport is being copied by others in Phoenix, Baltimore...
This table ranks the 40 largest U.S. metropolitan areas according to how well stocks of companies based in them have performed. MONEY compiled it using indexes of selected stocks from the individua...
Glasses clink. Platters of shrimp and tuna are replenished. In one corner of the room Asao Kanamori, executive VP of Sanshin Electronics, discusses Kabuki, a form of Japanese theater. Business card...
Here's a sampler of destinations: -- Brookfield Craft Center (P.O. Box 122, Brookfield, Conn. 06804; 203-775-4526). Housed in 18th-century buildings 90 minutes from New York City, this nonprofit sc...
So you work a 15-hour day. That doesn't excuse you from paying your parking tickets. Nor will the dog understand if you don't get home in time to let him drag you around the block before bed. As fo...
When Barry Silver and his fiancee Mary Krupinsky began shopping for a beach house a year ago, they ignored Martha's Vineyard, the island off Cape Cod that is favored by such well-heeled vacationers...
Back in 1980, Lueen and Howard Miller were rooted in a conventional, solidly middle-class life. He was a $20,000-a-year high school industrial-arts teacher in Portland, Ore., and she earned $12,500...
AS THE SERVICE SECTOR continues to outshine manufacturing, as tomorrow's technology replaces today's, U.S. cities are fast learning to adapt. Some have emerged from the process as veritable boomtow...
HE LIVES up on the bluff, behind the wrought-iron gate, always on a plane just above eye level. Without fail, his grass is greener. He is the rich man, and he needs no introduction. As F. Scott Fit...
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