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Vietnam ‘napalm girl’ photo turns 40 “I really wanted to escape from that little girl,” says Kim Phuc, now 49. “But it seems to me that the picture didn’t let me go.”

By Margie Mason The Associated Press

TRANG BANG, Vietnam — In the picture, the girl will always be 9 years old and wailing “Too hot! Too hot!” as she runs down the road away from her burning Vietnamese village. She will always be naked after blobs of napalm melted through her clothes and layers of skin like jellied lava. She will always be a victim without a name. It only took a second for AP photographer Huynh Cong “Nick” Ut to snap the iconic black-and-white image 40 years ago. It communicated the horrors of the Vietnam

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‘I’m not normal anymore’

War in a way words could never describe, helping to end one of the most divisive wars in American history. But beneath the photo lies a lesser-known story, a tale of a dying child brought together by chance with a young photographer. A moment captured in the chaos of war that would be both her savior and her curse on a journey to understand life’s plan for her.

Medical record breaches raise privacy alarm

It was June 8, 1972, when Phuc heard the soldier’s scream: “We have to run out of this place! They will bomb here, and we will be dead!” Seconds later, she saw the tails of yellow and purple smoke bombs curling around the Cao Dai temple where her family had sheltered for three days, as north and South Vietnamese forces fought for control of their village. See Photo / A4

A foster family’s fight for adoption • DHS aims to send 2 struggling boys to father in Mexico By Sheila G. Miller The Bulletin

The two boys wouldn’t speak and refused to eat anything except McDonald’s hash browns. They hoarded food, as if afraid they might never see another meal. The boys, ages 2 and 3, had no possessions but the clothes on their backs. That, say Shylo and Mike Walker, is how their foster children came to them in September 2010. Now, the Walkers are fighting the state for the right to adopt the kids, whose lives, they say, would otherwise be in danger. On the other side of the fight: the Oregon

Ryan Brennecke / The Bulletin

Shylo and Michael Walker play with their two foster kids on Friday.

Department of Human Services, which seeks to send the children to Mexico to rejoin their father, who was deported

“There’s a reason for everything. Don’t ask me why. It’s kinda weird.”

“I got to kiss him and I got to smell his skin, tell him I love him. He told me I was beautiful. I’ve never had that.”

— Michael Flint, who survived a natural gas explosion at his Bend home

— Alicia Flint, who hadn’t seen her father in 2 decades when she learned of his accident

in 2010 after pleading guilty to injuring the boys’ biological mother in a domestic dispute. See Foster / A6

Blast reunites long-lost kin By Scott Hammers The Bulletin

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n March 19, Michael Flint woke up before dawn and lit a cigarette. Though his memory of what happened from there is spotty, Flint recalls hearing a tremendous noise and watching everything around him turn bright orange. Flint’s cigarette touched off a natural gas explosion that shook homes across several blocks of Old Town Bend and leveled the small cottage where he lived on Northwest Georgia Avenue. Badly burned, Flint staggered outside through the flames to alert his neighbors to the fire and collapsed on the lawn. While Flint, 61, recovered in a Portland hospital, a woman who knew nothing of the explosion Googled his name back in Bend. It had been nearly 21 years since Alicia Flint had seen her father.

By David Schultz Kaiser Health News

As more doctors and hospitals go digital with medical records, the size and frequency of data breaches are alarming privacy advocates and public health officials. Keeping records secure is a challenge that doctors, public health officials and federal regulators are just beginning to grasp. And, as two recent incidents at Washington, D.C.’s Howard University Hospital show, inadequate data security can affect huge numbers of people. On May 14, federal prosecutors charged one of the hospital’s medical technicians with violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA. Prosecutors say that over a 17-month period, Laurie Napper used her position at the hospital to gain access to patients’ names, addresses and Medicare numbers in order to sell their information. A plea hearing has been set for June 12; Napper’s attorney declined comment. Just a few weeks earlier, the hospital notified more than 34,000 patients that their medical data had been compromised. A contractor working with the hospital had downloaded the patients’ files onto a personal laptop, which was stolen from the contractor’s car. See Records / A3

Finally reconnected In the seven years since she moved to Bend, Alicia Flint, 31, would occasionally drive past the house near Pilot Butte where her family had lived in the years before her mother split from her father, taking her and her younger brother to Eugene. Her mother’s brother once told her that her father could sometimes be found drinking at a local bar, but by the time she moved to Bend, the bar had closed. Sitting at her computer reading through news accounts of the violent explosion that had nearly killed her father a few weeks earlier, Alicia Flint was overwhelmed. “I just lost it,” she said. “First I became angry, I became sad, and then I just had a lot of empathy, and I just called the burn center.” See Reunion / A7

Sandusky accusers to speak out at trial By Jeremy Roebuck The Philadelphia Inquirer

For months, others have spoken for a collection of young men whose accusations have brought Jerry Sandusky to grief. As prosecutors tell their stories, the former Penn State University assistant football coach subjected each to horrific and sustained sexual abuse. He lavished them with gifts, ingratiated himself into their families, earned their trust — and then ultimately betrayed it. Sandusky’s defense offers a different take: His accusers, many of whom have known one another since boyhood, conspired to bring down a local sports and philanthropic icon for personal gain. And perhaps not all of the alleged victims prosecutors have identified even exist. This week, some of those young men will come one step closer to speaking, for the first time publicly, for themselves. See Sandusky / A4

Michael Flint, left, visits the site of a house explosion he survived. His daughter, Alicia Flint, with one of her two sons, Everett, 3, reconnected with him after coming upon his name in coverage of the blast.

EGYPT: Mubarak’s life sentence reinvigorates revolutionaries, A3

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Sports B1-6 Stocks G4-5 TV & Movies D2

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