Information technology, bio-science and insurance remain strong sectors in the Portland area.

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Indeed, the two most successful statistical analysis programs, SPSS and SAS, expanded from their domain-specific base (social science for SPSS and bio-medical research for SAS) to become tools used wherever there was data to analyze.

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The state of the ocean today should be the tipping point that wakes us up from the trance of consumption that we haven lulled into complacency with, and which sends us into a new era of material science, bio and ocean degradability, and new re-use technologies.

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Frist said lawmakers, scientists and bio-ethicists would discuss the various "social, legal, and ethical implications of the science" at a Wednesday session for about five hours.

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Indeed, a petition is now circulating from a group calling itself the Public Library of Science, urging scientists to boycott any publisher that will not relinquish the rights to published bio-medical papers after six months.

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