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TO HAIL AND BACK

Question in D.C.: Why retroactively

Syria —Obama, in Russia, pursues support for a military strike. But European allies may sit this one out.AS PIUS — How sarin kills. A3

cut timber

Fly like a bird —It may

payments'?

save the U.S. military millions in fuel costs.A3

By Andrew Clevenger The Bulletin

CyCling —Weather wreaks havoc, but the national cham-

pionships mustgoon.C1

Plus: Bikingboomers

— In their 50s and60s and on Central Oregon's trails.D1 Andy Tullis/The Butlet(n

50-PluS —Five pain-relief tips, and five mistakes women

Hail, heavy rain, high winds: The National Weather Service says a late summer storm broughtall that to parts of Oregon on Thursday. On the Cascade Lakes Highway, a semitrailer blasted through fresh hail — lots of it, though the bits of ice weren't as big as the golf ball-sized chunks reported in Malheur

make dating online.D2-3

County to theeast. Rainstayed mostly west of the mountains (morethan 1/2inches in onehour in the Valley) but wind gusts reached 70mphnear Sisters. And then it all cleared up, basically. Plus, we're looking at a pretty pleasant week — though be prepared for showers. See a full weather report on B6.

And a WebexclusiveAs the food stamp debate resumes in Washington, recipi-

ents continue to squeeze. bendbulletin.com/extras

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EDITOR'SCHOICE

NSA able

to foil basic safeguards of privacy By Nicole Perlroth, JeffLarson and ScottShane New York Times News Service

The National Security Agency is winning its longrunning secret war on encryption, using supercomputers, technical trickery, court orders and behindthe-scenes persuasion to undermine the major tools protecting the privacy of everyday communications in the Internet age, according to newly disclosed documents. The agency has cracked much of the encryption, or digital scrambling, that guards global commerce and banking systems, protects sensitive data like trade secrets and medical records, and automatically secures emails, Web searches and phone calls of people around the world. SeeEncryption /A4

TODAY'S WEATHER ~~

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Homelessness, often invisible, has been in the news of late: a suspected rape attempt over the weekend in northeast Bend; a brush fire that broke out at a Bend transient camp in July; a Redmond officer caught on camera

Oregon. SeeSequester/A5

hitting a transient man with the back of an ax. "I was never threatened," says one man

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interviewed for this story. "But I know it does happen out there.... It's about surviving."

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ike Miller had hit bottom.

Roughly eight years ago, he and a brother from San Jose, Calif., moved to a house in Bend for work. About two years ago, Miller lost his job and took up drinking. His brother left for Nevada, and Miller was left alone. Before he knew it, he was scouting secluded places to put up a tent to replace his lost home. "I didn't want to camp out," Miller said. "It's a part of my life I didn't think I would go through. But, the things I was doing and the choices I made brought me here." Usually unseen or overlooked, homeless camps around Bend pro-

vide atemporary home forscores ofhomeless

people. The camps may appear, be vacated and be re-established in a matter of days, according to Miller and others who've worked with or policed the homeless. Or they may quietly persist for months. They range from one person in one tent to several people in upward of 10 tents, according to Bend Police spokesman Lt. Chris Carney. Nearly 2,200 people are experiencinghomelessness in Central Oregon, according to the annual point-in-time count conducted in January by the Homeless Leadership Coalition. Of those 2,200 people, Miller feels most are down on their luck, just as he was. SeeHomeless/A4

Mike Miller, of Bend, stands at a transient campsite on Thursday afternoon where he spent several nights during a year of living outside. "This is survival for some people," Miller said. "I know it was for me."

By Melissa Healy For thousands of newborns born in and around Boston, San Francisco, Missouri and North Carolina over the next several years, a full genomic sequencing may beamong the medical tests conducted in the first days of baby's life. The procedure is anything

but routine. But $20 million in grants announced this week by the National Institutes of Health will help decide whether suchgenomic analysis should be among the routine screenings conducted on all newborns. At issue in the studies to be undertaken are questions of health, efficiency, privacy and

in the era of protests,

Homelessnessin Central Oregon

joblessness

A one-daysurveyconductedeachyearbytheHomeless Leadership Coalition shows a rough breakdown of the homeless

New York Times News Service

population in Oeschutes, Crook and Jefferson counties.

Number of people whoare homeless in Central Oregon: 2,198 JEFFERSON

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Total who experienced homelessness for more than 1year: 1,260 Total who are 17 and under and homeless:914 Total who are17 and under, K-12 students and homeless:689 Source: Homeless Leadership Ceet(tien's January survey Andy Zeigert/The Bulletin

Sequencing bab sDNA:helpfulorTM I? Los Angeles Times

2020 BIDS

Olympics Jee Kline / The Bulletin

By Branden Andersen

WASHINGTON — After waiting in vain for three months for a response from President Barack Obama's administration, the House Natural Resources Committee chairman said this week he had "no other choice" but to subpoena documents explaining why sequestration budget cuts were applied retroactively to county timber payments. In January, the Department of Agriculture distributed $323 million in Secure Rural Schools funding for the fiscal year 2012 to 41 states, including $63 million to Oregon. The 18 counties in Western Oregon containing Oregon and California Railroad Co. lands received an additional $36 million, administered separately by the Bureau of Land Management, a part of the Department of the Interior. Two months later, after the mandatory budget cuts known as sequestration went into effect, the U.S. Forest Service announced it wanted $18 million back, including $3.6 million from

ethics, as well as more emotional issues of parent-child attachment. Will having information on a baby's distantly future health vulnerabilities make a difference in the kinds of medical treatments he or she gets, or on the ways his or her parents feed or care for him or her? When genomic analysis picks up on a genetic

disorder or an inherited disease likely to crop up early, will even earlier interventions make a difference? Will physicians, parents and, ultimately, the children, understand the significance (or the lack thereof) of the information they now have? Is it just too much information? SeeBaby/A5

By Jere Longman BUENOS AIRES — The recent trend of the International Olympic Committee and FIFA, the organizer of soccer's World Cup, has been to award the planet's two largest sporting events to cities, countries or regions that have never hosted the global competitions. That would seem to give Istanbul the inside track over Madrid and Tokyo on Saturday, when about 100 delegates of the Olympic committee will choose the host city for the 2020 Summer Games. But all three cities pose risks, and it is impossible to know which will prevail in a secret ballot. It is guesswork to determine the favorite, a lesson that Paris starkly learned when it was widely expected to win the 2012 Summer Games and then lost to London. "You ought to be able to throw the names into a jar and say, 'Well, this may not be my first choice, but I'm not worried that they'll be able to do it,'" said Dick Pound, anIOC delegate from Montreal. "But none of these are perfect by any means." SeeOlympics/A4


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