Adult Web sites enjoy boost from stimulus checks

Seems Uncle Sam's economic stimulus checks are boosting an unlikely part of the economy.

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"Heineken? F#$k that $h%t! Pabst Blue Ribbon!"

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[photo] Barack Obama speaks at Waterfront Park in Portland, May 2008.

Many more pictures here.

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Portland Becomes First Major U.S. City to Win Top Prize for Bicycle Friendliness

"Portland earned the Gold designation back in 2003 and has been working to achieve Platinum for well over two years.

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Portland's Bike Boxes: Making Cars More Polite to Bikes

The bike box was created as a response to traffic accidents involving right-turning cars running over cyclists, known as a "right hook" accident. The bike box is meant to give bikers greater visibility by positioning them directly in front of waiting cars.

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Corvallis named the Best Green Place to live in America by Country Home Magazine

The data has been logged; the numbers have been crunched, and, after a nationwide study on green living, Corvallis, Oregon has been named the Best Green Place to live in America by Country Home Magazine.

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AT&T: Your World Delivered... to the NSA

Two years after asking for a service tech, I still cannot get coverage where I live. Maybe a better title is, "More (jail)bars in more places"?

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Arizona gets its act together. Sort of. @$%#ing finally.

Now if the state would match California's solar initiative programs, we might get somewhere significant. Or maybe good 'ol boys will start shooting up the solar plant.

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Trails of Destruction: The Impact of Bottom Trawling as Seen from Space

Arguably the single most destructive human action for the world's oceans, bottom trawling, a practice commonly used to dredge up deep water fish, leaves behind a trail of destruction that can clearly be seen from space.

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Climate change real-estate buyers guide

Map out what would be underwater with various levels of seas rising. At current rates, we'll be at .5 to 1 meter rise in 100 years. SF (whoa):

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You are the 9th Most Loathsome Person in America

Charges

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The Marlboro Marine

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Schumacher may be Germany's fastest taxi driver

But when the former Formula One ace, plus his wife and two children, caught a taxi back to the airport they were short on time and, after a polite request, cab driver Tuncer Yilmaz watched in wonder as Schumacher took the wheel.

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Sovereign Wealth World

"China's new sovereign fund alone has two hundred billion dollars to invest, while sovereign wealth funds all together control more than two and a half trillion dollars—and could control as much as twelve trillion by 2015.

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Global Warming: A Real Solution

I can't say this any better. Here's a blurb from the full article by RFK:

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We're #1! We're #1! USA! USA!

"More than 1 million cases of chlamydia were reported in the United States last year — the most ever reported for a sexually transmitted disease, federal health officials said Tuesday. "A new U.S. record," said Dr. John M. Douglas Jr.

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The Complexities of Keeping It Small and Simple

"During the two-year process, Mr. McKean and Ms. Donohue had to overcome resistance from banks and appraisers, who didn't think a 935-square-foot modern design fit into a second-home market dominated by large Tudors and multiple-car garages."

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Build green or pay up suck'a

My $0.02: it's about damn time.

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Blorwag all over the green podium

"places synonymous with environmentalism like Vermont, Oregon and Washington." Arizona is 10th? That's a bit high.

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The Great Iraq Swindle

How Bush Allowed an Army of For-Profit Contractors to Invade the U.S. Treasury

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Phoenix and Tucson to merge within a decade?

"Megapolitan"? That sounds too nice. How about @!$%#ing disgusting over expansion of low density suburbia in a place that is already strapped for the basics of life, meth-high on inefficient and car-dependent mcMansions?

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A Picture is Worth ... Logging Pattern

It formed partly by the storm brush of nature and partly by the impact on the soil of the forestry machines retrieving logs.

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40 percent of deaths worldwide are caused by water, air and soil pollution.

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Solar Powered Storage Building to be built in Portland

"Only in Portland would our leftover crap get treated so well, in a solar powered, LEED platinum storage building."

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