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The
St. Helens Earthquake
February 16, 2011
Portland Observer B lack HiStOty M o n th
Tl Week in
The Review
A pair of small earthquakes struek
Mt. St. Helens Monday, aecording
to the United States Geologieal Sur­
vey. The quakes, one registered at
4.3 and the other registered at 2.5,
day, saying she and President
were centered 37 miles northeast of
Obama work to keep themselves
Longview, Wash.
grounded through their spunky at­
titude, even after 19 years of mar­
First Lady: On Love
riage. “We keep each other smiling
First
Lady
and that’s good,” she said.
M ic h e lle
O bam a says
SI Swimsuit Cover
laughter is a
Sports Illustrated re­
key to a last­
leased its annual swim­
ing relatio n ­
suit issue Monday,
ship. She shared her advice with
and Irina Shayk, a 24-
reporters on Valentine’s Day Mon-
year-old model who is
dating soccer superstar Cristiano
Ronaldo, is the cover model. Shayk
is a native of Emangelynsk, Russia,
and is in the swimsuit issue for the
fifth time.
Newton Endorsement
Cam N ewton, the
Auburn University
q u a rte rb a c k w ho
won the Heism an
Trophy and led his
team to the NCAA
c h a m p io n s h ip
against Oregon, has reportedly
landed an endorsement deal with
UnderArmour worth more than $1
million, making it the richest con­
tract ever for an NFL rookie.
Fire Sickens 14 Inmates
A fire in a small laundry room sent
14 inmates at the W ashington
County Community Corrections
Center in Hillsboro to a hospital
Sunday night. The fire forced the
evacuation of more than 200 in­
mates, who were moved to the
Washington County Jail.
Obama to
Visit Friday
The White House announced
plans for President Obama to visit
Oregon on Friday to discuss the
Importance of out-educating U.S.
competitors on the world stage in
Landslides Delay Trains
Landslides along a section of order to win the future.
Obama will stop at the Intel Cor­
Burlington Northern Santa Fe rail­
road track just north of Vancouver, poration campus in Hillsboro to tour
caused Amtrak to charter buses to the world’s most advanced semi­
move travelers between Portland conductor manufacturing facility
with Intel Chief Executive Officer
and Seattle on Monday.
Paul Otellini.
The president will also learn more
about Intel’s STEM (Science, Tech­
nology, Engineering and Math)
education programs and Intel’s ef­
forts to better prepare the next gen­
eration to compete for high-tech
jobs and be the minds behind the
next great inventions.
In his State of the Union, Presi­
dent Obama outlined a plan for win­
ning the future by preparing our
children to be competitive in the
global economy.
Obama:
Egypt Power
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(AP) - The peaceful departure of
Hosni Mubarak as Egypt's presi­
dent marked "a beginning" holding
the promise of greater democracy
for the world's most populous Arab
nation. President Obama declared
Friday. But he added soberly,
"There will be difficult days ahead."
Indeed, while Obama and other
U.S. officials voiced optimism, they
were also concerned over who will
end up in control of the Egypt and
w hether the United States will
emerge with the kind of stable part­
ner it badly needs in the volatile
Middle East.
Also at issue: whether the unrest
that brought down Mubarak will
spread to other nations in the Middle
East, including oil-rich autocratic
neighbors, and whether the Egyp­
tian military will make good on its
pledge of promoting free and fair
elections.
At the White House, Obama's
words were alternately celebratory
and cautious after Mubarak ended
three decades of iron rule and turned
over his authority to the military.
"Today belongs to the people of
Egypt," Obama declared at the
White House. In Cairo, Egyptians
celebrated into the night.
Obama'sonly mention of Mubarak,
a longtime strong U.S. ally, was at the
beginning of his remarks: "By step­
ping down, President Mubarak re­
sponded to the Egyptian people's
hunger for change," he said.