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bendbulletin.com TODAY'S READERBOARD Geckos' sticky toesThe key to the lizard's climbing ability could provide technological solutions.As

• Switching to federal exchange would save milions, leaders say By Tara Bannow

move to the federal exchange.

that attempting to fix the ex-

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The leaders behind Ore-

Alex Pettit, Cover Oregon's interim chief information of-

gon's embattled health insur-

ficer, explained before the ex-

change in time for 2015 open enrollment, which begins Nov. 15, would cost $78 million, and working under such an aggressive time line would

ance exchange now appear change's technology commitpoised to scrap the project and tee in Durham on Thursday

present substantial risk.

the Oregon Health Authority

Sending Oregonians on private plans to the federal exchange, by contrast, would

would retain control of eligi-

cost the state $4 million to

the Oregon Health Plan,

$6 million, and Pettit said

but would cut off the flow of

that platform would be ready

enrollees that are coming in through Cover Oregon. See Cover /A5

take on new enrolleesbefore November. In that scenario,

bility and enrollments under the state's Medicaid program,

Mountain bikingChoosing the right bike —and local trails — for kids.C1

DIPLOMACY

2 setbacks for Obama during his Asia tour

Massage therapyCOCCstudents help improve seniors' health.D1

On the rOad — Older and grayer, butstill enjoying motorcycle riding.D2

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EDITOR'5CHOICE

By Mark Landler and Jodi Rudoren New York Times News Service

TOKYO — President

Barack Obama encoun-

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Although nothing is concrete, county and university officials say they're talking about the former county landfill site as a possible expansion areafor the college.

Restoring a black author

Existing Bend Parks 8 Rec.

tered setbacks to two of his

District facility

he failed to advance a trade

most cherished foreign-policyprojects Thursday, as deal that undergirds his strategic pivot to Asia and

72 acres

the Middle East peace pro-

cess suffered a potentially

Former county demolition landfill

irreparable breakdown. Obama had hoped to use

his visit here to announce an agreement under which Japan would open its mar-

kets in rice, beef, poultry and pork, a critical step

46 acres Phase 2

to the

toward the trade pact. But Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was not able to overcome entrenched resistance from

10 acres Phase1

classroom

Japan's farmers in time for the president's visit. In Jerusalem, Israel's announcement that it was

Coiotado

By Felicia R. Lee New York Times News Service

suspending stalemated peace negotiations with

NEW YORK — James Baldwin's 1953 novel, eGo Tell It on the Mountain,"

about a Harlem teenager's search for meaning, quickly became a dassic, along with his searing essays about race published a decade later in the book"The Fire Next Time." But in recent

years Baldwin's presence has diminished in many highschoolclassrooms. In a year that marks the

90th anniversary ofhis birth, educators offer different reasons for Baldwin's

fadedpresencethere,from the concern that he is too controversial and complex

to the perceptionthat he has been eclipsedby other African-American voices.

Collectivelythe explanations illustrate how attitudes

about race have changed, along with the waythe high school literary experience has evolved according to currents inthe field.

the Palestinians, after a rapprochement between the Palestine Liberation Organization and the militant

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ing a troubled peace pro-

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Andy Zeigert l The Bulletin

By Elon Glucklich and Tyler Leeds

10 have actually been pur-

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evaluating building on an

Deschutes County and Oregon State University-Cas-

cades Campus are nearing an agreement that could give the college room to expand beyond its planned 56-acre campus in southwest Bend.

chased. OSU-Cascades is still adjacent 46-acre site that was once apumice mine.

county-owned property." Master plans typically outline proposals for new

phasized nothing has been finalized.

construction projects.

ed space, we are confident we have sufficient room to

of anagreement couldbe made public in the next two

OSU-Cascades Associate Vice President for Finance and Strategic Planning Kelly Sparkssaid theagreement could range from something

or three weeks.

minor that assured "good

Anderson declined to offer specifics, but said the details

The agreement"would ba- neighbor relations" to somesically outline how we would thing that may lead to the Thursday the county and cooperateon environmental landfill site being used for university are in discussions remediation work" on the university construction. about the future of the former landfill property, Anderson Sparks mentioned sports demolition landfill site, which said. "But we're also willing fields, parking and housing borders the college's proto allow the university to as examples of what could posed campus to the north. do some master planning, be built once the landfill is Of the planned 56 acres, only which would include the rehabilitated, though she emDeschutes County Administrator Tom Anderson said

cess in which Secretary of

State John Kerry has been greatly invested. The setbacks, though

of our university and 5,000 students on the land we have already identified," Sparks

worlds apart in geography and history, speak to the common challenge Obama has had in translatinghis ideas and ambitions into enduring policies. He has watched outsideforces unravel his best-laid plans,

said. "It would be a luxury to

from resetting relations

think about the campus in

with Russiato managing the epochalpolitical change

"Even without this add-

supportthe academic needs

terms of a larger space, but that additional space is not a

need for us."

in the Arab world. On

Thursday, as Russia staged

OSU-Cascades officials

have stated the university's population will not exceed 5,000 students.

military exercises on the border with Ukraine, Kerry

denounced broken promises from the Kremlin but

SeeCampus/A5

"Baldwin is still there, but he's not there inthe

took no specific action. SeeObama/A4

wayhe was," said Jocelyn Chadwick, chairwoman of

the secondary level of the National Council of Teachers of English, pointing out that while in the 1960s and

Cities fight USPS ever sale ef historic pest offices

Baldwin's essays, short stories and novels in their

Los Angeles Times

'70s students would study entirety, today they often

By Lee Romney

encounter his work only in

SAN FRANCISCO — The Advisory Council on Historic

anthologies. Now teachers, scholars

Preservation has issued a report to Congress that criti-

and other Baldwin fans are

cizes the U.S. Postal Service's

seizing onthe anniversary of his birth in Harlem to inspire what they hope will be a revival of ayounger generation's interest in the work

disposal of historic properties

of one of the country's most

gifted writers and major voices on race and morality. See Author /A5

and calls for a suspension of all Area from Berkeley's mayor, sales until a host of recommen- state and local preservationists

country have balked over the

Renaissance Revival-style main post office prompted the

dations are implemented.

last few years as the postal

fiercest reaction yet, including

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and activists who contend the

The report by the indepenpostal service has fast-tracked dent federal agency was issued sales without taking local conlast week. It came a little more cerns or its legal obligations than a month after the council to preserve national historic heard testimony in the Bay treasures into account.

Communities aroundthe

service has increasinglyplaced a monthlongencampment on historic post offices filled with the steps and the creation of a New Deal-era artwork on the market. But in Berkeley, the

battling sales coast to coast.

push to sell its 1914 Second

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