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WINNERS
1. Nature's Northwest received good news
last week when the store's owner, General Nutrition Companies,
a cheesy denizen of aging malls, sold the local grocery
to Wild Oats Market Inc., the country's No. 2 natural-foods
seller.
2. Local microbrew hounds don't have to worry
about Full Sail falling into the wrong hands; the Hood River
brewer, on the block since late last year, announced last
week that its employees will buy the company.
3. Oregon pot-heads can breathe freely: Medical
marijuana is finally legal, so long as you buy the $150
registration card made available last week.
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LOSERS
1. Thumper, the classroom rabbit at Portsmouth
Middle School, met a gruesome death when some students broke
into the school last week and shot the furry critter. Portsmouth's
overzealous principal reportedly declared a lockdown, telling
kids that recess would be held in the gym indefinitely.
2.Scottish Power's proposed takeover of PacifiCorp
suffered two black eyes when the Public Utility Commission
and a group of large electricity buyers both announced opposition
to the deal.
3. Low-key developer Selwyn Bingham, scion
of one of Portland's oldest real-estate families, was dragged
through the mud twice last week. His lightrail-friendly
project, the Round at Beaverton Central, teeters on the
verge of bankruptcy, and a planned golf resort in the shadow
of Mount Rainier is drawing fire from environmentalists.
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