Winners

1. Although applications for the new zoo boss will still be accepted through the next week, WW hears that Metro boss Mike Burton already has a favorite contender to replace Sherry Sheng. Word is that Jack McGowan, executive director of SOLV (Stop Oregon Litter and Vandalism) is interested in the job and Burton would love to have the PR-savvy ex-mayoral aide running the zoo.

2. In these days of mourning for Princess Di, you couldn't blame folks for wanting to avoid being seen sucking up porcini mushroom ravioli at Paparazzi restaurant on Northeast Broadway. "Actually business hasn't slacked at all," says Nick Medici, owner and manager of the 5-year-old restaurant. "We have a good local following." If anything, he says, patrons are making a joke of the trattoria's name. Photos of Italian celebrities may hang on the walls, he adds, but Medici isn't sending any profits to the paparazzi defense fund: "If those guys are bad guys, they need to take their lumps."

3. The Juvenile Rights Project Inc., a local nonprofit law firm that represents delinquent, abused and neglected kids, received an award for its child advocacy work from the National Association of Counsel for Children. Does this honor (one of just three given nationally) come with any cash? "Tragically, no," says Ellen Jones, a lawyer with the local firm.

Losers

1. D. Roger Illingworth, the director of Oregon State Health Sciences University's lipid disorder clinic, ate crow this week when the diet drug Redux was pulled off the market because of safety concerns. Illingworth, who was on the FDA advisory panel that voted to approve the drug in late 1995, was quoted in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal saying that there were no inklings at that time of the drug's link with a fatal lung disease.

2. Staff shakeups continue to rockThe Business Journal. The latest defection was former associate editor Wendy Berner, who gave notice this week after being shifted to the Journal's features section. Editor Dan Cook says Berner was doing a great job, but wanted to be "managing editor-news," a post he gave to Dennis Anstine.

3. Former Intel consultant Randal Schwartz, who was found guilty by a Washington County Circuit Court of "accessing a computer with intent to commit theft" in 1995, was featured in a Washington Post article this week. The article portrayed the computer code expert as the victim of Intel's "out of proportion," "ballistic" overreaction. Schwartz, who has appealed the decision, was sentenced to pay $68,000 in restitution to Intel, for "cracking" Intel employee passwords. Schwartz says he was just trying to alert Intel to its problems.