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WASHINGTON — In the wake ofreports ofwi despread surveillance of Americans' phone and Internet usage, two Senate Democrats announced Friday that they will introduce legislation that will curb the National Security Agency's collection of data on citizens with no suspected link to terrorism. As members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Mark Udall, D-Colo., have long warned that the administration's antiterrorism efforts under the Patriot Act and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act relied on interpretations of classified portions of the law that would shock the American public if they became
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An area of the Deschutes National Forest was blackened last year by the Pole Creek Fire, which covered 40 square miles. A tour Friday took 50 people to the area to survey the damage. Another tour is scheduled today. By Dylan J. Darling The Bulletin
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Race for cheaper gene tests begins By Robert Langreth and Shannon Pettypiece Btoombert, News
NEW YORK — Companies and a university are moving to offer cheaper and broader genetic testing for breast cancer risk
to a growing group of women, following a Supreme Court ruling that ended Myriad Genetics Inc.'s monopoly over DNA that vastly raises odds for the disease. Within hours of the decision, the University of Washington and Ambry Genetics, a closely held company in Aliso Viejo, Calif., said they would immediately offer expanded testing that included the BRCAI and BRCA2 genes, which Myriad has had under patent since the late 1990s. Quest Diagnostics Inc. said it would sell testing for the genes later this year. By invalidating key parts of Myriad's patents, the court has removed a bar that prevented labs using new technology from developing and selling broader one-time tests that search for all known cancer risks, including the BRCA genes, geneticists said. It could also mean lower prices for the screening, which can cost as much as$4,000 forMyriad's most comprehensive version of its BRCA cancer gene test. SeeGenes /A6
SISTERS — Tom and Linda Davis witnessed the Pole Creek Fire last year from their living room window in the Tollgate subdivision northwest of Sisters. Nine months later, the couple got a closer look at the woods burned in the 40-square-mile fire. They were among 50people who took part Friday in a tour led by the U.S. Forest Service, the Deschutes Collaborative Forest Project and the Deschutes Fire Learning Network. "We've had a lot of interest in the fire, and this is a good opportunityto understand what happened and what happens afterwards," Linda Davis, 68, said. During the five-hour tour, the bus wound up to a ridge with a view of the Three Sisters and the burned area below, down into a charred creek drainage, along the road leading to the Pole Creek Trailhead and finally through a thinning project outside the blackened forest. Another tour, with another 50 people taking part, is set for today. Tour organizers said most of those who signed up were from Bend and Sisters. "First and foremost, we want to bring some larger understanding of (what) fire's role is in the ecosystem and how it affects our forests — good and bad," said John Allen, supervisor for the Deschutes National Forest. The tours also gave people a chance to offer their opinions on Forest Service projects planned in the burnt woods, particularly the cutting of hazard trees along more than 40 miles of roads and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. — Brenden Heiland had breathed the vanilla lavender scented clubhouse air. He had seen the beach volleyball court, toured the game room equipped with billiards, pingpong and air
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Last week, Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee and NSA contractor, leaked classified documents that revealed the NSA was collecting millions of Americans' phone records on a daily basis. He also provided information about PRISM, a classified program that allowed the NSA access to the servers of nine major American Internet companies, in-
hockey tables, and learned with delight of the Friday pool parties with a DJ, free food and snow cones, spiked with rum for those of age. Now, as he and the three friends he was apartment hunting with stood peering at the pool, Heiland, 19, pon-
dered what life might be like if he chose to live in this offcampus complex, the Grove, when his sophomore year at the University of Missouri begins this fall. "It's like a vacation, almost," he said. "I'm not going to go to class — that's how I look at it."
The spas, tanning salons and sprawling pools that these complexes offer students are a far cry from the traditional on-campus residence halls that may house classrooms and faculty and host lectures and academic discussions. SeeLuxury/A5
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WASHINGTON — After concluding that President Bashar Assad's regime has used chemical weapons against rebel forces, the White House pledged Friday to send more military and financial aid to Syrian opposition groups to make them "as strong as possible." But whether they'll ever be strong enough to topple Assad or assertthemselves to govern a post-Assad Syria are unanswered questions. For the past two years, the Obama administration has struggled to identify credible partners among Assad's many opponents and has worked to help shape them into a transitional authority that'sprepared totake charge should the Assad regime collapse. What has emerged instead on the military side is an array of rebel militias heavily infiltrated by radical Islamists and al-Qaida loyalists with no central command. SeeSyria/A5
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