Bulletin Daily Paper 07/28/11

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Meat from a petri dish: Credible or inedible? By Scott Canon

Patriot’s recovery

McClatchy-Tribune News Service

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Nicholas Genovese is a lab-coated collection of incongruities. He’s being bankrolled by an animal rights group to make meat. The molecular biologist is working in a lab at a land-grant university that pulls in millions in grants for its research on livestock. Yet the money backing him pushes the desire to end the use of animals as food. And the guy he answers to at the University of Missouri makes clear that he sees just three reasons for a cow to exist: breakfast, lunch and dinner. Genovese’s work explores “Think of what a hope — cerwe’ve done in tainly distant, the last several perhaps fanciyears with ful — to grow computers and muscle meat cellphones. separate from ... Why can’t an animal. It we make the would start in same kind of a laboratory advances with and move to a food?” factory. It aims — Nicholas for a world Genovese that would leave both meat lover and animal lover with a satisfied burp. “One of the interesting things about being a human being is that we advance things,” Genovese said. “Think of what we’ve done in the last several years with computers and cellphones. ... Why can’t we make the same kind of advances with food?” Whether you refuse to eat anything with a face or can’t enjoy a patio party without indulging your carnivorous side, Genovese thinks the petri dishes he’s toying with now may yield part of an answer to make you guilt-free and satiated. See Meat / A4

Bald eagle, revived by one vet, is helped by a girl hoping to be one

Walden: Guard’s response ‘completely unsatisfactory’ By Andrew Clevenger The Bulletin

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Greg Walden, RHood River, met with the acting director of the Army National Guard on Wednesday to discuss ongoing disputes over millions of dollars in incentive bonuses promised to enlisting soldiers. He calls the response he received “completely unsatisfactory.” As The Bulletin first reported, more than a dozen Oregon soldiers say the National Guard Bureau has refused to pay them the second half of bonuses they earned by enlisting to fill positions requiring critical skills. Typically, the first half of bonuses, which National often totaled as much as $20,000, Guard PFC were paid upon the completion Chelsea Wells of training, and the second half may be paid became due after three years of in a new way Guard service. after a dispute But many soldiers who enlisted over her in 2007 and 2008, like PFC Chel- bonus. sea Wells of Milton-Freewater, encountered resistance from the National Guard Bureau when they filed paperwork to receive the second half of their bonuses. Rather than paying up, the Guard claimed they were not eligible to receive the bonuses in the first place. Even though the soldiers have signed contracts confirming their bonus eligibility, the military claims the bonuses should not have been authorized and, in some cases, has asked soldiers to give the first half back. See Guard / A4

Party loyalty, leaders’ insecurity have brought debt talks to precipice A N A LY S I S By Jeanne Cummings and Mark Niquette

TOP NEWS INSIDE

Bloomberg News

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Obituaries

C5 C3 Andy Tullis / The Bulletin; top photos courtesy Jeannette Bonomo

Clockwise from top: Dr. Jeff Cooney, of Bend Veterinary Clinic, resuscitated Patriot when the bald eagle stopped breathing under anesthesia; Patriot was badly hurt and looking sad when he was initially rescued about a month ago; true to his name, the eagle sported red and blue bandages around his injured wing and claw; Dr. Cooney and Patriot arrive Wednesday at the vet’s for a checkup.

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n injured bald eagle, whose famous mouth-to-beak resuscitation last week received national attention, got a special visitor Wednesday during his weekly physical therapy. “It’s fun because I want to be a vet when I grow up,” Kira Neilsen, 9, said. “It’s cool to be so close and to hold it. I’ve never seen an eagle up close before.”

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Answers on Guard bonuses are elusive

Kira Neilsen

After hearing about the bald eagle’s near-death experience, Kira, a Lava Ridge Elementary student who felt akin to its plight after recently breaking her own arm in a scooter accident, has made it her mission to help the raptor, named Patriot. Contributing $5 from her own piggy bank to Patriot’s cause, Kira also made flyers, asking neighbors and family to give money for Patriot’s recovery. See Eagle / A4

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama told the nation in his televised speech that Washington “is a city where ‘compromise’ is becoming a dirty word.” If he’s right and Democrats and Republicans can’t agree on a way out of the impasse over raising the U.S. debt ceiling, there will be plenty of blame to go around. The ideological purification of the two parties, the public’s demands for painless remedies and the insecurity of party leaders after three elections that shuffled partisan power are all elements that brought Congress, the president and the country to this perilous point. “If you look at the incentives and disincentives faced by members of Congress, you can see why they do not want to take compromising positions,” said Gary Jacobson, a political scientist at the University of California in San Diego. “They are playing to the people who got them there. Those people do want compromise. But by ‘compromise,’ they mean the other side caves in to them,” Jacobson said. See Debt / A5

Walden backs Boehner on debt WASHINGTON – As House Speaker John Boehner struggled to rally Republicans to his debt ceiling plan Wednesday, Rep. Greg Walden, R-Hood River, threw his support behind his friend and ally. “I think (Boehner’s proposal is) a responsible, although not highly popular, act,” Walden said. “It achieves the principles that I feel very strongly about, which is to rein in government spending and get America turned onto a better course.” See Walden / A5


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