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A Cessna site suitor feels spurned • The city says the company sought too large a subsidy on its lease By Nick Grube The Bulletin
By William Yardley New York Times News Service
NOME, Alaska — In the winter of 1925, long after this Gold Rush boomtown on the Bering Sea had busted, diphtheria swept through its population of 1,400. Medicine ran dangerously low, and there was no easy way to get more. No roads led here, flight was ruled out and Norton Sound was frozen solid. Parents still read books to their children about what happened next: Balto, Togo, Fritz and dozens more sled dogs sprinted through subzero temperatures across 674 miles of sea ice and tundra in what became known as the Great Race of Mercy. The medicine made it, Nome was saved and the Siberian huskies became American heroes. Eighty-seven years later, Nome is again locked in a dark and frigid winter — a record cold spell has pushed temperatures to minus 40 degrees, cracked hotel pipes and even reduced turnout at the Mighty Musk Oxen’s pickup hockey games. And now another historic rescue effort is under way across the frozen sea. And while the dogs of 1925 needed only five and a half days, Renda the Russian tanker has been en route for nearly a month — and it is unclear whether she will ever arrive. See Alaska / A4
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Windward Performance Ltd. owner Greg Cole, left, and manager Timothy Gorbold stand by the Perlan high-altitude glider, which the company is developing to fly at up to 90,000 feet.
Washington-based airplane manufacturer Triton America, LLC isn’t the only company interested in the Cessna Aircraft Co. building at the Bend Municipal Airport. Over the last two months, the city of Bend and Cessna also have been negotiating with a local aerospace company, Windward Performance Ltd., that would like to move into the 200,000-square-foot facility. Windward, which is located across the taxiway
from the Cessna building, is so cramped in its current facility that workers sometimes have to shimmy and duck to get around their equipment. Windward had an agreement inked with Cessna to buy the building, but the deal disintegrated recently due to what Windward officials called perplexing and short-sighted negotiations with the city. The building sits on land owned by the city. During negotiations to lease it, Windward owner Greg Cole said, the city responded to a pitch by the
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Redmond Proficiency Academy director Michael Bremont looks over a “chemistry of cooking” class Monday. The class is one of many — most a week long — in the next three weeks that will allow students to dive deeply into a single subject.
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WASHINGTON — Few people noticed Saudi Arabia’s three-day conference in September on disrupting terrorism financing. For a team at the Treasury Department, though, it was a long-sought victory in the fight against al-Qaida. While drone attacks and covert operations such as the raid that killed Osama bin Laden get headlines, terrorism relies just as much on cash as on car bombs. With that in mind, a cadre of intelligence analysts at the Treasury wage a quiet war to choke off terrorists’ money supplies. “The financial dimension is critical,” said Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a terrorism researcher at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington, in a telephone interview. See Terror / A4
company with a counter-offer that was higher than one the city itself had made earlier. In a way this would be similar to a real estate agent trying sell a house to a family for $200,000. When the family counters with a $100,000 offer, the agent would then ask for $250,000. “The city gave me the finger, whether they’re smart enough to realize it or not,” Cole said, adding that a big part of his company’s offer was tied to job creation. See Windward / A4
REDMOND — Gabriel Hinderlider started a one-week challenge on Monday: finish a class covering the chemistry of cooking at Redmond Proficiency Academy. The 17-year-old junior at the charter high school just started the intensive, 30-hour course, the only one he’ll need to study for all week until it wraps up Friday. He’s not alone. The school on Monday started a three-week cycle of “learning institutes” in which all students are participating this month. The intense courses give the school’s 480 students in ninth through 12th grades a chance to immerse themselves deeply into a topic. Though the classes move quickly — most are a week long — they’re also the only course the students study before moving on to the next one. “It’s easier for me because you’re only focusing on one subject when you get home and work on the homework,” Hinderlider said. “That’s the main reason I was excited about it.” For the next three weeks, it will mean a shift in the school’s usual schedule. Typically, students take courses with a schedule that mirrors those on most college campuses. Courses taught on the school’s open campus are taught in blocks of time on different days throughout the week, and students will return to the regular semester routine after three weeks of learning institute classes. See RPA / A5
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Students Memori Messner, 16, and Kyler Jocelyn, 17 talk following class Monday. They are among 480 students in ninth to 12th grades taking part in the in-depth classes.
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California’s catalog of historic artifacts includes two pairs of boots, a U.S. flag, empty food bags, a pair of tongs and more than a hundred other items left behind at a place called Tranquillity Base. The history registry for New Mexico lists the same items. That might be surprising, since Tranquillity Base is not in New Mexico or California but a quarter of a million miles away, in the spot where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the moon in 1969. But for archaeologists and historians worried that the next generation of people visiting the moon might carelessly obliterate the site of one of humanity’s greatest accomplishments, these designations were important first steps toward raising awareness of the need to protect offworld artifacts. “I think it’s humanity’s heritage,” said Beth O’Leary, a professor of anthropology at New Mexico State University. “It’s just an incredible realm that archaeologists haven’t begun to look at until now.” O’Leary herself had not given much thought to historic preservation on the moon until a student asked her in 1999 whether federal preservation laws applied to the Apollo landing sites. “That started the ball rolling,” she said. It turned out to be a tricky question. Under international law, the U.S. government still owns everything it left on the moon: the bottom half of the first lunar lander, the scientific experiments, the urine bags. But 100 nations, including the United States, have signed the Outer Space Treaty, in which they agree not to claim sovereignty over any part of the moon. See Moon / A5
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