8-4-95. W$Japer: "Cyberpoliticking: Presidential Races Are Being Changed By Latest Technology. Internet and Other Sources Can Tailor Information, Sway Voters' Decisions." This kind of campaign foray into cyberspace is but a small slice of a much bigger revolution. The explosion of new avenues of information -- digitized, computerized, cabled and broadcast -- will change the way Americans gather the information they use in picking their leader next year. Campaigns are struggling to figure out how to cope with this static-filled world, in which they can use new technology in unprecedented ways to reach both mass audiences and ever-narrower niches of specific voters. For voters, the difficulty will be to distinguish between the information and misinformation inevitably mixed into the avalanche. LYN_jrk "Silicon Forest: For Oregon, the Boom In High Tech Brings Jobs and Handwringing." The quest for cheap land, cheap labor and tax breaks has led most of the world's biggest chip makers here, more than $13 billion in high-tech construction is either under way or proposed for the 100-mile swath of rural landscape stretching from Portland to Eugene. But surprising resistance is cropping up. In May, Yamhill County, at the western edge of Silicon Forest, rebelled against Sumitomo Sitix Corp.'s demand for an $58 million tax break for its proposed $912 million chip plant. In June, several hundred people turned out to cheer speeches opposing plans by Hyundai Electronics America to build a $1.3 billion chip plant. KIK_but Ev & Ad's kids: SYN_tax