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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced Friday that it would enter the national debate over same-sex marriage, agreeing to hear a pair of cases challenging state and federal laws that define marriage to include only unions of a man and a woman. One of the cases, from California, could establish or reject a constitutional right to samesex marriage. The justices could also rule on narrower grounds that would apply only to marriages in California. The second case, from New York, challenges a federal law that requires the federal government to deny benefits to gay and lesbian couples married in states that allow such unions. The court's move comes against the backdrop of a rapid shift in public attitudes about same-sex marriage, with recent polls indicating that a majority of Americans support allowing such unions. After last month's elections, the number of states authorizing same-sex marriageincreased by half, to nine. The court's docket is now crowded with cases about the meaning of equality, with the new cases joining ones on affirmative action in higher education and the future of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Decisions in all of those cases are expected by June. The new California case, Hollingsworth v. Perry, No. 12-144, was filed in 2009 by Theodore Olson and David Boies, two lawyers who were on opposite sides in the Supreme Court's decision in Bush v. Gore, which settled the 2000 presidential election. See Marriage/A8

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Kit plane builder Epic Aircraft is negotiating to buy Cessna Aircraft's vacant Bend manufacturing plant, possibly closing a deal by Dec. 14, according to city officials. The Bend City Council met with Epic Aircraft CEO Doug King on Wednesday, where King discussed plans to add

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duction in hopes of securing Federal Aviation Administration approval to certify the Epic LT plane model. The council then voted to transfer the active lease on more than600,000 square feet of airport land from Cessna to Epic. Much of that land is open space that could be developed in the future. The lease transfer has an effective date of Dec. 14. That's the date officials believe Epic and Cessna are eyeing to close a deal on the airport building, said Assistant City Manager Jon Skidmore. See Epic/A6

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A wolverine is captured by a motion-activated camera in the Wallowas in Spring 2011. Called Stormy by Audrey Magoun, a wolverine researcher, the animal was among the first to be documented in the mountains in decades.

• Recording equipment Catching awolverine oncamera havedeveloped a bait and camerastation to capture photos of wolverines is set to lookfor theelusive Researchers and other forest carnivores. There are now 20 such stations around the Central Oregon predator inthe Cascades Cascades aspart of a project aimed at detecting the reclusive wolverine. By Dylan j. Darling

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The trap is clever, designed to reveal as much as possible about one of the most reclusive animals in the wild while only plucking out some of its fur and taking its photo. Built around a 15- to 20-pound block of road-killed deer, the contraption led to the recent discovery of three wolverines in the Wallowa Mountains of Eastern Oregon, where scientists and locals alike believed the animals roamed no more. Now the focus is on the Cascades near Bend and the possibility of wolverines hiding here. Wolverines haven't been seen in the Central Oregon Cascades for more than 45 years. But, "there hasn't really been a large-scale detection effort," said Tim Hiller,carnivore-furbearer program coordinator for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. Until now. Hiller and his wife, Jamie McFadden, are leading a research project aimed at determining whether wolverines are living in the Cascades. Their focus is the Three Sisters, Mount Jefferson and Mount Washington wildernessesareas.The lastwol verine in Central Oregon mountains was killed in 1969 by a trapper near Broken Top, said ODFW officials. Stuffed, the animal now stands preserved at the ODFW office in Bend. In the West, wolverines weigh up

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bendbulletin.com/wolverine to 35 pounds and live about 15 years, said Audrey Magoun, a wildlife biologist and wolverine expert. While they oftenare labeled as mean or ferocious, she said they aren't. "No more so than other animals," she said.

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She has never heard of a wolverine, which is in the same family of animals as badgers, martens and weasels, ever attacking anyone. Their mean reputation, Magoun said, likely comes from the disposition they displayed when people found wolverines in traps. Although not targeted by trappers in the 1800s like beavers, trapping in Oregon did play a part in the decline of the wolverine, Magoun said. SeeWolverines/A8

Factory fires blaze despite certifications of safety By Declan Walsh and Steven Greenhouse New York Times News Service

KARACHI, Pakistan — The century-old Central Jail here, a gritty repository of criminals, jihadists and sectarian killers, has a reputation for overcrowding and prisoner riots. But for Arshad and Shahid Bhaila, the industrialist brothers whose factory burned to the ground in September, killing at least 262 workers, there are some comforts. As Category B prisoners, the Bhailas have a private room, a bathroom, a television and personally cooked meals. Those perks, to be sure, may prove only a short-lived solace once their trial begins in January and they face a possible death sentence on murder charges. Yet their lawyer, in mounting a defense, is seeking to shelter the Bhailas behind a far greatersource ofcomfort:an apparel industry certification system that gave their factory, Ali Enterprises, a clean bill of health just three weeks before the horrific blaze. SeeFactories/A6

IvyLeague schoolscrack down on out-of-controlbehavior By Chris Staiti Bloomberg News

BOSTON — Harvard and Cornell universities have joined Yale University and Dartmouth College in cracking down on out-of-control behavior as drinking, hazing and sexual harassment endanger students and tarnish

Ivy League reputations. Harvard faculty voted last month to require registration of parties and ban drinking games, and Cornell ordered fraternities to have live-in advisers. This fall, Dartmouth began security checks at Greek houses and Princeton University banned freshmen

from joining them. The moves are the latest effort to regulate campus behavior since rules controlling students — known as in loco parentis — were abolished in the 1960s. Disobedience crested last year for Ivy League schools, which cost more than $50,000 a year to

attend. A Dartmouth hazing article detailed rituals involving bodily fluids. A Cornell student died of alcohol poisoning, and Yale was hit with a discrimination complaint after fraternity members chanted "No means yes! Yes means anal!" "Colleges have been in an

arms raceto prove to students that they're cool and give more freedom than the others," said Lisa Wade, head of the sociology department at Occidental College in Los Angeles. "Now, maybe the pendulum is starting to swing the other way." Seelvy League/A4


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