This 1988 file photo provided by Bobby Lee shows Kenneth Bae, right, and Lee together when they were freshmen students at the University of Oregon. Bae, detained for nearly six months in North Korea, has been sentenced to 15 years of "compulsory labor" for unspecified crimes against the state, Pyongyang announced on May 2, 2013.
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Photographed Febuary 10th, 2010, as part of the World Affairs Council of Oregon's International Speaker Series, Portland, Oregon
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Karl Rove photographed Febuary 10th, 2010, as part of the World Affairs Council of Oregon's International Speaker Series, Portland, Oregon.
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Aired out. The Oregon acrobatics and tumbling tea, practices it's moves.
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Megan Gill with friends at her home in Portland, Oregon, December 1, 2006. Megan put up a notice of an upcoming event on her Facebook page to invite her friends to "come be in a photo for TIME magazine." Eighteen friends were photographed.
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Oregon Democratic Senator Ron Wyden wants to lower the stated corporate tax rate to 24%
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Oregon State Hospital in Salem, Ore., the mental institution where the 1975 movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was filmed, is making way for a new complex.
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Oregon teen Kelsey Hertel now sees she'd been buying what the fashion mags were selling.
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Dion Jordan of the Oregon Ducks at the first round of the 2013 NFL Draft at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, on April 25, 2013.
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Dion Jordan, a defensive end from Oregon, stands with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell after being selected third overall by the Miami Dolphins in the first round of the NFL football draft, April 25, 2013, at Radio City Music Hall in New York.
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Ed Ray, president of Oregon State University
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On the way to Boring, Oregon.
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The Oregon cheerleading team performs a basket toss
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Oregon House Speaker Jeff Merkley (left) and U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith
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Obama took Oregon, Clinton took Kentucky
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The Oregon Scientific Talking Wireless Oven/BBQ Thermometer verbally alerts you when your food has reached the perfect temperature.
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A participant in the Oregon truffle festival
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The Timmons family of Brownsville, Oregon takes extra steps to teach their children for a eco-friendly envirornment.
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Davis with Oregon's Gov. John Kitzhaber (l) and Washington's Gov. Gary Locke (r)
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Train travel was the prevailing mode of transportation for basketball teams in the first half of the century, even though cross-country trips could take 48 hours or more. Fortunately for the Oregon State Beavers, seen here in 1953, this car appears to give them ample leg room.
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A row of houses for sale in Bend, Oregon.
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Craig Robinson, head basketball coach at Oregon State University
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Principal Dancers Yuka Iino and Ronnie Underwood in Oregon Ballet Theatre's production of Christopher Stowell's "Swan Lake"
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Horses gallop in field in Seneca, Oregon.
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A light rail system runs along the interstate in Portland, Oregon.
Photograph by David Maisel (From the book Library of Dust / Chronicle Books)
Each copper canister contains the cremated remains of patients from an Oregon State psychiatric hospital that were never claimed by next-of-kin.
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John McCain speaks at Vestas Wind Energy in Portland, Oregon.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton campaigns at Liberty High School in Hillsboro, Oregon, April 5, 2008.
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A security officer checks a terminal at Oregon's Portland International Airport
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FRESH APPROACH Synthetic playing surfaces, like this one in Oregon in the U.S., are gentle on knees and toes
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Pot grower Danny Kyllo stands in front of his house in Florence, Oregon
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Emergency vehicles gather outside the Clackamas Town Center mall after a shooting in Clackamas, Oregon, Dec. 11, 2012.
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"They are young," she says of her doctors. "They don't understand the pains of the elderly."
—LILLIAN SULLIVAN
Retired Oregon bookkeeper with ALS
Gordon Smith, left, and Jeff Merkeley are competing against each other in the Oregon Senate race.
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