News If you're looking to kill a couple of minutes this Friday, we alert you with the videos below that former Portland Trail Blazers coach Maurice Cheeks has some new competition for sweet and spontaneous moments involving youngsters during national anthems at sporting events. For those who don't remember, Cheeks stepped in to help a 13-year-old girl sing the anthem in 2003 during a Blazers game ...   More

News Kilong Ung, a Portland software engineer who survived the 1970s Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, is returning to his native land next week to start work on building a new school. "I want to show the better side of humanity," Ung says. "My dream is not just one or two schools. I want to build hundreds or thousands." In a 2009 WW profile, Ung described losing his parents, younger sister and ...   More

News  While waiting (and waiting and waiting) for the Jan. 10 championship game between Auburn and Oregon, the mind tends to wander.Last week, we wrote about how college football in Alabama is taken very, very seriously. This week, we note one more example from the video archives of the state’s football passion.Below is a much-watched chestnut from December 2008, in ...   More

Food & Drink   It’s accused of hospitalizing nine freshmen from Central Washington University. Gangsters from New York City allegedly forced a gay man to chug it while he was being tortured. And it tastes almost as nasty as its reputation. It’s the alcoholic energy drink Four Loko. And its pervasive presence in the news lately has resulted in warnings and proposed bans from across the nation—including ...   More

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