Oregon universities struggle with their business angle In May, a tiny nonprofit in downtown Portland sent a one-page letter to every liberal arts college in the United States offering a simple, but formidable challenge: Boycott the U.S. News & World Report’s influential annual ranking of colleges. MORE >
Google loosens lips (a little) When last we tried to speak with a real live human at the Google server plant in The Dalles, the closest we could get was an e-mail exchange with a corporate type in the Mountain View, Calif., HQ. But the hyper-secrecy surrounding the much-ballyhooed plant has receded a bit,
Engineer sets up goat farm near Bend Flavio DeCastilhos, a Silicon Valley veteran, knows first-hand the challenges involved in leaving one career to start another.
