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Sathwik Karnik wins National Geographic Bee

To clinch the title, Sathwik correctly named Chimborazo as the mountain in Ecuador that represents the farthest point from the Earth's center. Thirteen-year-old Conrad Oberhaus of Lincolnshire, Ill., finished ...
Ore. man wounded in break-in at girlfriends home

TERREBONNE, Ore. (AP) -- Deschutes County authorities say a man who suspected his girlfriend was seeing someone else has been wounded trying to break into her ...
Four-car crash impacts traffic at SE Cesar Chavez and Stark

PORTLAND, Ore. - A four-car crash shut down traffic at a southeast Portland intersection Wednesday morning. The crash happened just after 7 a.m. ...
Man buys himself a Corvette crashes it into a power pole

BORING, Ore. - A man who just bought a 1989 Chevrolet Corvette ended up crashing it into a power pole and knocking out electricity to folks in Boring. The crash happened just after 9 p.m. Tuesday ...
Power knocked out in SE Portland following crash

PORTLAND, Ore. - A car crashed into a power pole overnight, cutting off electricity to thousands of people in southeast Portland. The crash happened just before 3 a.m. ...

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The Way of the Gun

From its earliest inception, the movies have engaged in an ongoing love affair with the criminal. The most popular genres--the Western, the gangster flick, film noir--all revolved around criminals as the central characters. Yet, while engaging in this affair, movies often feel moved to romanticize the criminal in order to lessen the impact of the complicit audience falling in love with wrong doer ... ...

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Rogue River house burglars get away with $171000

The Jackson County sheriff's office says they broke in sometime between mid-April and early May while the homeowners were out of town. Burglars cut through a gun safe and made off with 14 guns, two Rolex watches, gold, platinum and silver coins and ingots, plus some ...
Sex trade soap handed out at Portland motels

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Volunteers have been passing out bars of soap at motels along a Portland street known for its "lingerie shows" and prostitution ...
Oregon DAs wants to reduce prison time for drugs

SALEM, Ore. (AP) -- The Oregon District Attorneys Association wants to cut prison costs by reducing sentences for some drug crimes such as marijuana ...
Money raised to keep Portland police on horses

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- The Portland mayor's office says the police Mounted Patrol Unit would survive this year if a private fundraising effort comes up with $200,000 in ...
Hillsboro airport sees risk from coyotes

HILLSBORO, Ore. (AP) -- The Port of Portland wants authority to kill deer, coyotes or other animals seen as a risk to pilots at the Hillsboro ...

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New Malaria Drug Shows Promise in Animal Tests

ST. LOUIS, MO U.S. researchers have developed a new fast-acting drug against malaria that appears to avoid the problem with current medicines, which often lose their effectiveness against increasingly drug-resistant strains of malaria parasites, called Plasmodium.

Scientists say the new malaria medicine may have a decisive edge against this persistent tropical-world killer.

Michael Riscoe of Oregon Health and Science University, in the U.S. Northwest, says the new drug, known as ELQ-300, targets the mitochondria -- energy-producing structures in the parasite's cells -- and the DNA building blocks they produce.

A chemical model of ELQ-300. (Image courtesy of Michael Riscoe) x A chemical model of ELQ-300. (Image courtesy of Michael Riscoe) "So the Plasmodium mitochondrion serves as a factory to make these DNA building blocks, but this is completely blocked by ELQ-300," explains Riscoe. "Studies show that the drug acts very quickly to shut down this process. In fact, (in) only about 10 minutes.rdquo;

Perhaps the biggest obstacle in the fight against malaria, Riscoe adds, is the Plasmodium parasite's ability to mutate and develop resistance to each new drug used against the disease. ...