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Ore. timber country ponders future with fewer logs

In this April 24, 2013 photo, retired logger Jim Ford stands in his shop in Grants Pass, Ore. While Ford thinks logging can still be a major part of the economy in the rural West, jobs are half what they were 20 years ago, and mills continue to close. The region continues to look for new sources of jobs and government revenues.

Jennifer Phillippi's grandparents started producing lumber in this corner of Oregon timber country in 1922, when a man could set up a mill, log the trees within range of a team of horses and move the mill to a new stand when those trees ran out.

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OIL AND GAS

Work well under way on Exxon's long-awaited Alaska project

ExxonMobil is starting to make real strides on its Point Thomson hydrocarbon development on the North Slope. The field hugs the shore of the Beaufort Sea, about 60 miles east of Prudhoe Bay and just west of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
LAINE WELCH

Laine Welch: Fuel cell technology boosts long-distance fish shipping

A maritime milestone will be set this week as a container of 18 tons of fresh salmon from Chile is offloaded from a cargo ship in California after a month at sea -- without being frozen.
BUSINESS

Treasury says U.S. can pay its bills for months, delaying debt ceiling fight

Any confrontation over the nation’s debt ceiling is now unlikely until after Labor Day.
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BUSINESS

Hits and misses in Facebook's history

Facebook made its debut on the stock market a year ago on May 18 in one of the largest IPOs in history and the biggest for any Internet company.

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TECHNOLOGY

A year after IPO, Facebook aims to be ad colossus

It was supposed to be our IPO, the people's public offering.

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BUSINESS

Bernanke forecasts gains from computer technology

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says pessimists forecasting that the economy will not reap sizable benefits from the computer revolution are likely to be proven wrong.
TECHNOLOGY

Silicon Valley-area hub becomes factory town

In a busy factory, machinists move sheets of aluminum roll in the back door to be molded, stamped, twisted and notched into high-tech electric cars that sell for more than $60,000 each.
TECHNOLOGY

Report: Yahoo nearing $1.1B acquisition of Tumblr

Yahoo may be on the verge of closing its biggest acquisition during the 10-month reign of CEO Marissa Mayer as she tries to attract more traffic and advertisers to the Internet company's website and mobile applications.
TECHNOLOGY

'Sonic' video games coming to Nintendo

Sonic the Hedgehog is rolling with Nintendo.
TECHNOLOGY

Ex-Groupon CEO working 9 to 5 on business album

Former Groupon CEO Andrew Mason is diving into several new ventures, including indulging his inner rock star with an album of "motivational business music."