News Digest:
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 12:46 PM PST
OREGON
Magazine lists Portland as top place to have
a baby
PORTLAND (AP) — FitPregnancy Magazine has listed Portland as the top city in the nation for having a baby.
The magazine cites Oregon’s low infant and maternal mortality rates and says babies in Portland are 34 percent less likely than the national average to be born below normal birth weight and 21 percent less likely to be born premature. Portland gets high marks for breast feeding, with the magazine concluding that 88 percent of the city’s mothers try it against a national average of 75 percent.
IDAHO
SW Idaho retailers
report mixed results from holiday season
BOISE (AP) — An informal poll of retailers by the Boise Downtown Association has found some shops cashed in during December while others missed out.
‘‘I was shocked,’’ said Karen Sander, executive director of the Boise Downtown Association. ‘‘At some places, sales were up 65 percent (from the previous year) and at others, sales were down 50 percent. There was no trend whatsoever.’’
ENTERTAINMENT
‘No Country for Old Men,’ ‘There Will Be Blood’ tie for most Oscar nominations
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — ‘‘No Country for Old Men’’ and ‘‘There Will Be Blood’’ led with eight Academy Awards nominations each Tuesday, among them best picture and acting honors for Daniel Day-Lewis and Javier Bardem — but it remained in doubt whether any stars would cross striking writers’ picket lines to attend the ceremony. ‘‘No Country for Old Men,’’ a crime saga about a drug deal gone bad, and ‘‘There Will Be Blood,’’ a historical epic set in California’s oil boom years, will compete for best picture against the melancholy romance ‘‘Atonement,’’ the pregnancy comedy ‘‘Juno’’ and the legal drama ‘‘Michael Clayton.’’
