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Fewer Road Fatalities
As the 2012 Memorial Day weekend holiday came to an end, the
Oregon Department of Transportation reported residents on the
road were safer than in years past, reversing a recent trend of more
traffic fatalities and drunken drivers.
Water with Meals
10 am - 3 pm
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May 30.2012
Archery
Climbing Wall
Disc Golf
Fishing
Live Animals
Camping
1840s Brigade
Encampment
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Great Outdoors!
Fort Vancouver
National Historic Site
1501 East Evergreen Boulevard
Vancouver, WA
A relatively easy way to get children to eat more vegetables is to
serve water with meals, according to a new study by behavioral
researchers at the University of Oregon. The authors of the study
say behavioral research has found people correlate a glass of water
with healthy food, and sugary drinks with items from convenience
stores and fast-food restaurants.
Radioactive Tuna
Low levels of nuclear radiation were
found in 15 blue fin tuna, which
caught off San Diego and thought to
have traveled all the way from
J a p a n ’s e a rth q u a k e -s tru c k
Fukushima nuclear plant, according
to a new study released Monday by
the National Academy of Science.
The fish is not harmful to humans, say researchers.
Michelle Obama’s book
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First lady Michelle O bam a’s new $30 book,
which focuses on the White House gardens,
was released Tuesday by Crown Publishers
and traces how a city kid from the South Side
of Chicago became a working mother and
then a political spouse. The 271-page book
also continues her healthy food initiative to
children to grow their own food.
Safer, New Methods
A new m ethod for creating vaccines that is thought to be safer
and more effective than current approaches was discovered by
M ark Slifka, Ph.D., and colleagues at OSHU Prim ate Re
search C enter in Portland. The research results, w hich was the
first to dem onstrate that hydrogen peroxide can inactivate
viruses for use as vaccines, have been published online in the
journal N ature M edicine.
New Budget Plan
M ayor Sam A dam s will present W ednesday the final revised
version of his proposed budget plan to the City Council, who will
hear the new changes that will restore som e previously an
nounced cuts and more m oney for schools, including $7.5
m illion for P ortland-area school districts.
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Engineering Students
Invent Medical Device
A team o f fo u r elec tric a l
e n g in e e rin g s tu d e n ts from
P ortlan d S tate U n iv ersity has
won first-p la c e in a n atio n al
co m p etitio n for th e ir d esig n
o f a p resc rip tio n drug id e n ti
fica tio n device.
Thang Duy Vo, Anh Viet Ngo,
Hoa Van Nguyen and Hung Minh
Nguyen, seniors who came to
PSU through the Intel Vietnam
Scholars Program, successfully
challenged 23 other finalist teams
from other top national engineer
ing schools such as UC Berke
ley and MIT to win the $10,000
top prize in the inaugural Cornell
Cup USA at Walt Disney World
in Florida.
The PSU team created a
device to instantly identify an
image of a pill from a database
o f 16,000 prescription drugs
and provide the latest detailed
inform ation about it. The de
vice is designed for busy em er
gency room s and m edical of
fices, w here p atien ts often
d o n ’t know the nam es o f the
drugs they are taking.