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Fish began dying off en masseinthe waters around Honolulu after hundreds of thousands of gallons of molasses spilled into Honolulu Harbor early this week — and there's nothing officials can do to clean it up. Thousands of fish have died from the sugary sludge. Crabs lay dead along the floor while more fish floated listlessly in the harbor, with some seeming to gasp above the surface of the water, so contaminated by the thick, syrupy sweetener. The spill is one of the worst man-made disasters to hit Hawaii in recent memory, officials said, not least because no one has quite seen anything like it. "There's nothing you can do to clean up molasses," said Jeff Hull, a spokesman for Matson Inc., the company responsible for the leak. "It's sunk to the bottom of the harbor. Unlike oil, which can be cleaned from thesurface,molasses sinks." Put another way by Janice Okubo, a spokeswoman for the Hawaii Department of Health: "It's sugar in the water. If you know a scientific way to remove it from water, let us know." Once at the bottom, wildlife officials said, the sludge replaces the oxygen-bearing seawater that bottom-dwelling fish use to breathe. See Molasses/A7
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By Lauren Dake The Bulletin
SALEM — Oregon State University-Cascades has found its campus. The university has identified morethan 50 acres in west Bend where it hopes to build the state's newest fouryear university. "The most important thing is this secures the future for both the community and the university, so we can get down to the business of planning a campus
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that people can be proud of," said OSU Vice President Becky Johnson, the highest ranking administrator at OSU-Cascades. It's a huge step for the university that anticipates enrolling freshman and sophomore students for the first time in fall 2015. The university expects approval Friday from the State Board of Higher Education, Committee on Finance 8r Administration, of the $12.855 million purchase price.
The property is still subject to environmental impact studies and one
parcel will need filling and grading. But identifying the site is key in helping recruit the first class of freshmen to the area. "Location matters," said Wendy Castillo, a senior at OSU-Cascades and president of the student government. "Location is huge." The university has agreements to buy two properties
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adjacent to one another, a total of 56.44 acres. The property is about 2 miles from downtown Bend and about 3 miles from Central Oregon Community College. One parcel, a wooded lot at 1500 S.W. Chandler Ave., is 10.44 acres and zoned for limited commercial use, which means the university can break ground there quickly. Its
proposed selling price is $4.98 million. SeeCampus/A6
LOS ANGELES — Mike Dalton starts his day at a Department of Veterans Affairs office in Oakland, Calif., doing something he couldn't do a year ago: He signs on to a computer and calls up an application for disability compensation. With a few mouse clicks, he pulls the information he needs to rate a veteran's injuries. The new computer system is the centerpiece of a major overhaul that department officials promise will clear the backlog of claims that has had severely wounded veterans waiting months — if not years — to find out whether they will receive financial help. SeeBacklog/A6
Boy born fromembryofrozen for almost 20years By Llsa M. Krieger San Jose Mercury News
Baby Liam Burke is just learning to crawL But he was conceived when Bill Clinton was president, the World Trade Center stood tall and home computers had the newfound ability to dial into something called the World Wide Web.
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Suspended 19 years in deep freeze, Liam is the beloved new son of Kelly Burke — and one ofthe oldestembryos ever thawed and restored to life. "He is the most awesome baby there is," said Burke, 45.
"He is a happy, healthy baby, a little bundle of joy, smart and interactive."
What's more intriguing, Liam is adopted. An Oregon couple who had twins two decades ago through San Ramon's Fertility Sciences Centerkept his embryo frozen for years, keeping open the option of expanding their own family. Ultimately, they decided to donate the embryo to
Burke for her own pregnancy — a profound example of technology's extension of life. Like Liam, about 10,000 embryos a year are thawed and join families, thanks to advances in the field of cryopreservation. Others linger, sometimesfora decade or more, raising medical and
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ethical dilemmas never imaginable a generation ago. Infertile couples create embryos using in-vitro fertilization, which joins eggs and sperm in a petri dish. They typically create as many as possible to maximize their chances for parenting. SeeEmbryos/A7
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