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Portland Ore. rejecting water fluoridation

PORTLAND, Ore. -; Residents are voting to keep Portland, Ore., as the largest U.S. city without fluoride in the water or any plans to add ...
Voters passing Beaverton school levy

BEAVERTON, Ore. – Early results showed that voters appeared to pass a levy that will fund more teacher positions in the Beaverton School District. The Beaverton district has been hammered by cuts in recent years; district officials have been forced to cut 16 school days and 640 teacher positions to make up for a $142 million budget shortfall. This levy will restore 150 teaching ...
How prepared for disasters are Portland and Vancouver schools

PORTLAND, Ore. – Unlike hundreds of schools in Oklahoma, the two schools hit by the tornado Monday did not have safe rooms. Seven students of Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., were killed in the monstrous tornado. We checked into what measures that schools locally have in place in the case of a natural disaster. Tornadoes are uncommon in Oregon and Washington, but they ...
Oregon woman missing in Hawaii found dead

who went missing on Oahu has been found dead, Honolulu police said Tuesday. The body of Ivanice "Ivy" Harris was found along the Waianae coastline on the west side of Oahu on Monday. The cause of death of Ivanice "Ivy" Harris has not been determined and requires further investigation, police said in a news release. Police said Saturday that Ivanice "Ivy" Harris ...
Manslaughter pleas in Portland child abuse death

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- The mother of a 5-year-old Portland boy who investigators say died of abuse has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and received a 12-year ...

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Peter Weir's masterful The Truman Show is a prophetic comedy of ideas that hit all too close to home in our media-savvy, television-obsessed, celebrity-enthralled times. In the movie's bizarre, but ultimately tenable fantasy world, a young man named Truman Burbank (Jim Carre ... ...

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Inslee signs Facebook job password protection bill

SEATTLE (AP) - Washington became the fifth state this year to sign into law protections of social media passwords at the workplace and job interviews. Gov. Jay Inslee signed the bill Tuesday, wrapping up a session of negotiations between privacy advocates and business lobbyists who were worried that the new law would hamper security for proprietary or confidential information. The measure, ...
Seattle butcher bringing home the bacon with marijuana pigs

SEATTLE -- Pot-infused bacon? There's a shop for that. A Seattle butcher said he's found a way to marry marijuana and meat - by feeding pot plants to pigs. "We're able to make anything you can imagine," said William von Schneidau, who ...
Local couple on Oklahoma family They just rebuild and go on

VANCOUVER, Wash. – A Vancouver couple with deep ties to Oklahoma said Tuesday they worry for their family members in the tornado-stricken town of Moore, but believe "they’re not just going to give up." "They just rebuild and go on," Kathy Horne said. "The Oklahoma people are very strong people." Kathy Horne and her husband, John, have family ...
Portlanders set to decide fluoride issue - again

A woman drops off her ballot Tuesday at an official drop-off box. Portlanders are voting for the first time in 30 years whether fluoride should be added to its ...
College ROI Which Oregon universities deliver the best payback

Eastern Oregon University 30-year average income versus the total cost: $100,400 Average total cost to earn a 2012 bachelor's degree: $84,910 Average financial aid awarded: $4,852 The cost of a college education continues to increase, as does the burden on graduates in terms of debt. The average university graduate is expected to leave college with $25,000 in debt, which makes finding the ...

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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. ...