Bulletin Daily Paper 06/19/11

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Prehistoric treasure trove in an aptly named town • TRAVEL, D1

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Police target cyclists

Thirst for brew

Carrot: new diversion class. Stick: more citations

Central Oregon is overflowing with breweries (not a bad thing). Why all the recent activity?

By Scott Hammers The Bulletin

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Bend Police have issued at least 14 citations to cyclists since June 1, part of a stepped-up effort to enforce laws equally for two-wheeled and four-wheeled road users.

Also: Business index shows a steady, but slow, recovery

A joint effort between Bend and Redmond police and the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office, the push to write more citations comes with a carrot as well as a stick. All three agencies are offering ticketed cyclists the opportu-

Weary of ‘wars of choice’

Built to last

By Thom Shanker and Elisabeth Bumiller

In the PAKIT building, a surprise — and memories of a lost father

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Photos by Rob Kerr / The Bulletin

Pat Korish, 61, made his way up to the ceiling rafters of the PAKIT Liquidators building in southeast Bend with his son Matt, 29, on Friday. Soon after buying the building in the mid-1990s, Korish discovered his father — who died years ago, when Korish was just 12 — had a part in its construction. “Sometimes, when everyone here is gone for the night, I certainly think about him.” Below, the interior of PAKIT Liquidators (the business behind the Trashformations art event) shows the building’s rugged timber structure.

“I just kind of felt like, ‘You know what? This is going to be here forever.’” — Pat Korish, about the building built by his father decades ago. (Wayne Korish, who died in 1962, is pictured at right in his Army uniform.)

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Photo courtesy the Korish family

• Gates takes NATO to task for its looming “irrelevance”; a transcript of his last policy speech, Page F1

Science closes in on artificial limbs that can feel By Cynthia Dizikes Chicago Tribune

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Designs for prosthetic limbs with a sense of touch have languished for years — until now.

CHICAGO — In an underground laboratory at the University of Chicago, neuroscientist Sliman Bensmaia peered at a blue computer monitor attached by wires to a rhesus monkey’s brain. A lab technician grazed the animal’s finger using a metal probe, and the computer screen erupted in red. “That’s pretty cool,” Bensmaia said.

“You can see the brain becoming active just by tapping the hand.” Next, instead of physically tapping the animal’s hand, the technician planned to run a small current of electricity through electrodes in the brain to simulate the probe. If the animal looked in a certain direction, the scientists would know the “virtual touch” worked. This research is part of a groundbreaking quest to accomplish what was

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Is sexting a sickness? According to the experts, the line between a real disorder and just plain bad behavior isn’t clearly defined. So where might ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner’s actions fit in? Page A6 Timeline: America’s biggest sex scandals — all the way from President Clinton’s — span the political spectrum, Page A6

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TOP NEWS INSIDE FLIGHTS: Computer glitch strands thousands, Page A2 AFRICA: First lady’s trip revives old criticism, Page A7

once the stuff of science fiction — build a machine that helps humans to feel. Funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and spurred by the return of injured Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans, these researchers aim to design prostheses that will not only be able to move, but will also provide amputees and quadriplegics with a sense of touch. See Touch / A4

hen Pat Korish was searching for a new home for his business, he already knew his father had designed and built all sorts of buildings across Central Oregon: schools, community centers, homes and who knows what else. This was in the mid-1990s, and Bend was changing. PAKIT Liquidators was just one symbol of that shift. Korish’s eclectic business had been located near the Old Mill District, but it wasn’t going to be a match next to coffee shops and highend retail stores. So Pat bought an industrial building just off Southeast Wilson Avenue in Bend. Soon after the purchase, Pat found out his uncles and father built the building sometime in the 1950s. For Pat, at the building’s core is the memory of his father, Wayne Korish, who died at 42. Pat, now 19 years older than his father ever was, remembers sitting in PAKIT alone one night after closing shop for the day. It was dark in the building, and Pat pictured his father climbing through the rafters as he put the final bolts in place. “I just kind of felt like, ‘You know what? This is going to be here forever,’” Pat said. See PAKIT / A4

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WASHINGTON — As he prepares to depart the government for the second time, Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the human costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the uncertainty of the conflict in Libya, has made him far more wary, and weary, over unleashing the might of the U.S. military. “When I took “I hope I’ve this job, the prevented us United States from doing was fighting some dumb two very diffithings ... that cult, very costwere not ly wars,” Gates actually in our said in an ininterest.” terview Friday, — Robert Gates, released this who is leaving weekend. “And the Pentagon it has seemed to me: Let’s get this business wrapped up before we go looking for more opportunities.” Late in 2006, Gates was brought on by President George W. Bush to fix Iraq, and he was kept on by President Barack Obama to solve Afghanistan. Even as a trained historian, he said, he has learned most clearly over the last 41⁄2 years that wars “have taken longer and been more costly in lives and treasure” than anticipated. As Gates, 67, gets ready to return to private life at the end of the month, the futures of those two countries seem far from certain. See Wars / A5

nity to sign up for a traffic safety class. At $55, the class is markedly cheaper than the citations, which can range between $152 and $297. With that, Deschutes County follows Multnomah County in becoming the second Oregon county to offer a diversion program for cyclists. See Cyclists / A4

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