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bendbulletin.com TODAY'S READERBOARD Asteroid impacts — A newstudy sees the moonas a window into Earth's ancient past, when asteroids pummeled the planet so hard the oceans boiled.A3
OSU-CASCADES GEOTECHNICAL STUDY
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Lll IA By Tyler Leeds
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The old mine, which has been scorned by opponents OSU-Cascades has been giv- of the university's proposed en cautious approval totranslocation as impractical, is the form a former pumice mine secondpiece of OSU-Cascades'
acre wooded plot, andplans for that are beingevaluatedby an independent hearings officer for the city. Although it hasn't been purchasedyet, the mine
into a university campus, with
planned expansion into a four-
could potentially add 46 acres
ageotechnical investigation finding no hazards that rule
yearuniversityon Bend's west side. Initial development will
to the campus, allowingthe university to grow in the long
able," said Jane Barker, senior project manager of the university's campus expansion. "We will be conducting a lot of due diligence to make sure
out development.
be focused on an adjacent 10-
term to its target maximum of
we understand the full extent
The Bulletin
5,000 students. "There's a lot of potential for this site, and it's definitely do-
of the site conditions and the possible financial impacts. There's a lot of work to be done
prior to understanding all of our options, but this report has
given us a range of remediation options we can use," Barker said Wednesday. SeeOSU-Cascades/A5
CIA INQUIRY
Plus: Themoon'sshape
— How it became"like a lemon with an equatorial bulge."A3
Report: 5 hacked into Senate computers
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Kids' messyroomsWhen to let it go.D1
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Plus: ADHD —Kids with the disorder are more likely to abuse drugs.D1
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The cult of PBR — The beer's following inspires a Bend art show.GO!
By Mark Mazzetti and Carl Hulse
New York Times News Service
And a Webexclusive
WASHINGTON — An
— In Utah, manyworry that "extreme rope-swinging" takes extreme sport too far. TheBLM is considering stepping in. beedbelletie.cem/extras
internal investigation by the Central Intelligence
Agency has found that its officers penetrated a
computer network used by the Senate Intelligence Committee in preparing its damning report on the
EDITOR'SCHOICE
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CIA's detention and inter-
rogation program. The report by the agency's inspector general also
In France,
found that CIA officers
read the emails of the Senate investigators and
challenging
sent a criminal referral to
the Justice Department based on false information, according to a summary of findings made public Thursday. According to one official with knowledge of the
doctols On
euthanasia
report's conclusions, the in-
By Scott Sayare
vestigation also discovered that the officers created a false online identity to gain access on more than one occasion to computers used
New York Times News Service
PARIS — At least seven
times, alone and in secret,
C.
Dr. Nicolas Bonnemaison
prepared a lethal dose of sedative and quietly ended the life of a comatose patient in his care.
Bonnemaison, an emergency physician and palliative specialist in the city of Bayonne in southwestern France, acted without
consultation of any kind — with other doctors, nurs-
es or his dying patients' families — and sought to conceal the procedures,
keeping them unrecorded. All this he admitted freely in court, saying he was moved by a sense of duty to act outside the law, to spare his colleagues and his patients' loved ones the strain
of so weighty a choice.
Photos by Andy Tullis/The Bulletin
Joe McConaughy strides downthe Pacific Crest Trail while approaching a checkpoint close to Big Lakenear the Santiam Pass. He hopes to complete the length of the trail from the Mexican border to the Canadian border in a record-setting 53 or 54 days.
by committee staff.
The inspector general's account of how the CIA secretly monitored a
By Geoff Baker The Seattle Times
River into Washington by
congressional committee charged with supervis-
this afternoon at least 15
ing its activities touched
off angry criticism from members of the Senate and
grass alongside this part of the trail, about 20 miles from
pounds lighter, somewhat beaten up, but with the finish line in sight. "You never want to say the worst is over with because
Sisters.
you never know what can
cover the 2,663-mile Pacific
Missing such crucial checkpoints has posed the
Crest Trail in a record-setting
biggest threat to McCo-
naughy's record quest, which began June 18 in Campo,
happen at any given moment," says McConaughy, removing his shoes and socks to pick at his dirt-blackened, callused toes. "But I'm hoping
California, about 15 feet from
that whatever happens from
A statement issued
the Mexicanborder. Now, some 2,155 miles later, he
here on, it's something I can manage."
Thursday morning by a CIA spokesman said
SeePCT /A4
that John Brennan, the
the SUV's presence means he is guaranteed a 20-minute re-
SANTIAM PASS — Seat-
spite for his battered feet and
tle native Joe McConaughy smiles as he bounds into a wooded clearing and spots the familiar green truck. When you've speed-hiked 55 miles per day for six weeks over mountains, boulders and creeks, dodging the
a coveted peanutbutter and jelly sandwich.
odd bear and rattlesnake, that dirt-covered Honda Mot
59 days or fewer. "Ineed my PB and Jright now or I might pass out," McConaughy, 23, says with a smile, collapsing into a folding chair set up for him in the
had bette rbetherebeforethe sun sets. On this late after-
noon, McConaughy already 38 miles into his daily effort,
The vehide, dubbed "carne
asada,"containshissupport crew ofthree close friends shadowing his attempt to
See a video interview with Joe McConaughy: beedbulletin.cem/pctruneer
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hopes to cross the Columbia
He was charged with the
poisoning deaths of seven people. "You wanted to
amounted to vindication for Sen. Dianne Feinstein of Cahfornta, the comnuttee's Democratic chair-
woman, who excoriated the CIA in March when
the agency's monitoring of committee investigators became public.
agency's director, had apologized to Feinstein and
the committee's ranking
compassion," a state pros-
Republican, Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, and would set up an internal accountability board to
ecutor told Bonnemaison. "To be too compassionate
review the issue. The statement said that the board,
is to deem others dispos-
which will be led by former
able. It is to unburden them of a responsibility that, in
Democratic Sen. Evan
protect everyone — the
patients, the families, the medical personnel — out of
fact, belongs to them."
"I acted as a doctor," Bonnemaison told the
r
court in June, "through to
the very end." A jury acquitted him. The courtroom, filled with
Joe McConaughyexamines his dirty and blistered foot during a McConaughy laughs while talking about some of the hard times
his supporters, erupted in applause.
brief stop with his support crew Tuesday.
Bayh of Indiana, could recommend "potential disciplinary measures" and "steps to address systemic issues." But anger among lawmakers grew throughout the day.
he's endured on the trail as he takes a break for food and rest.
SeeCIA /A5
Doctors in France have
long held what, by American standards, might seem unthinkable discretion to
make end-of-life choices for people in their care. See Euthanasia/A4
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