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By Shaifa Dewan and Nelson D. Schwartz
• Merkley helps local agenciesget more caseworkers
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Houston is better known for urban sprawl than dense apartment living. But as part of a national rush to capitalize on rising rents, developers there are building thousands of apartments like those south of downtown at Camden City Centre, where 268 units will open early next year in a complex that also has two swimming pools, billiards tables, a coffee bar and a fitnesscenter. As residential building recovers from a near standstill after the housing crisis, much of the momentum is coming not from subdivisions with green lawns and two-car garages but from rental apartments. Multifamily construction nationwide is twothirds of the way back to its prerecession peak, while single-family home construction is still only about a third of the way back to its peak, said David Crowe, the chief economist of the National Association of Home Builders. See Building /A5
• Bend's Jack Grimmstill has vivid memories ofthe Sunday when war cameto Hawaii
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By Ben Botkin • The Bulletin
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designed to help people get off public assistance is likely to be restored due to the intervention of Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., Kenny LaPointof Redmondbased HousingWorks said Thursday. HousingWorks is one of five local housing authorities in Oregon that saw their funding for caseworkers in the Family Self-Sufficiency Program cut due to an apparent mistake by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. LaPoint, director of the
from bed on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, by the sound of the bombs falling and low-flying aircraft. Inside • A reporter's story ofthe Pearl Harbor attack was
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office had applied to HUD to receive three caseworkers serving 129 families in Crook, Deschutes and Jefferson counties. HUD announced in September that it would fund only one caseworker. See Error /A7
Squadron at Wheeler Field, about 16 miles north of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Grimm had joined the service in March 1941, well before the surprise
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the U.S. into World War II. Now living in Bend, the 92-yearold has a sharp memory of the day. He was 21 years old during the attack. Today, he is one of a dwindling number of surviving
By Anna Edney B(oomt/erg News
WASHINGTON — Four experimental cancer treatments that may one day help gravely ill children are facing review by U.S. pediatric advisers who have been working for years to find ways to develop more drugs for this underserved population. The medicines from GlaxoSmithKline, Amgen, Threshold Pharmaceuticals and Boehringer Ingelheim have the potential to treat children with a variety of tumors and fastspreading leukemia. The pediatric advisers to the Food and Drug Administration met Wednesday to discuss how best to test the medicines in sophisticated clinical trials in kids that may eventually lead to marketing approval.
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Pearl Harbor survivor Jack Grimmholds up his uniform at his home in Bend. Grimm was stationed at Wheeler Field during the attack 71 years ago.
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Vintage photos show Jack Grimm before and after he entered the military in March 1941.
Companies typically gain clearanceforcancer medicines in adults first and then take the time to learn more about the drugs' potential in younger patients, a smaller and less profitable market. See Cancer/A7
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — It ls a klller d>sgu>sed tn a luscious package. Amanita phalloides, the mushroom suspected of fatally poisoning four elderly people at a Loomis, Calif., care home, is commonly called the death cap. The death cap draws in mushroom hunters with its sturdy stem and smooth, bald top, ranging in colorfrom bronze to greenish yellow, and then kills — it is almost singularly responsible for fatal
Photos by Rob Kerr • The Bulletin Some of the medals earnedby retired Air Force Lt. Col. Jack Grimm during his service. The circular medal in the middle denotes his status as a Pearl Harbor survivor.
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worldwide. "These mushrooms are very, very sexy," said Dr. Todd Mitchell, a Santa Cruz physician who is leading a national study of an antidote to toxic mushroom poisoning. "They look very attractive in the field. They grow virtually side by side to chanterelles, and they look very robust. They smell quite sweet, and by all accounts are quite delicious." See Mushrooms /A5
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