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Wyden to block foreign surveillance extension By Andrew Clevenger The Bulletin
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WASHINGTON — Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., announced Monday that he will block the extension of legislation that gives the government authority to intercept communications of suspected foreign agents because Congress
has not received sufficient information to know whether it is working as intended. By placing a hold on the FISA (short for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) Amendments Act, Wyden prevents Senate passage of the five-year extension via a unani-
mous consent agreement. A senior member of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee, Wyden has repeatedly expressed concern over the growing body of secret law in the wake of the Patriot Act. “The purpose of this 2008 legislation was to give the government new
authorities to collect the communications of people who are believed to be foreigners outside the United States, while still preserving the privacy of people inside the United States,” Wyden wrote in a statement explaining his hold. See Surveillance / A4
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Meet Sigrid Scully, Marshall High’s volunteer grandmother
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Runner died with fiancee by his side • Tufts’ family hopes an autopsy will reveal the cause of death By Dylan J. Darling The Bulletin
When Billy Tufts died Sunday morning, he was running a race with the woman he loved and planned to marry. The Bend man was about seven miles through the Dirty Half, a half-marathon on Phil’s Trail in the woods west of Bend, when he collapsed and lost consciousness. “It was very shocking and out of the blue,” said Staci Carsten, 30, of Bend, his fiancee. “His heart just Tufts stopped.” What caused the 40-year-old Tufts to die is a lingering question, one Carsten said Tufts’ family hopes will be answered by a private autopsy in Portland. The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office declined to conduct an autopsy after the death was ruled not suspicious, Lt. Chad Davis said. The cause of death has not yet been released. “It appears to be from natural causes,” Davis said.
‘He knew I was with him’ Tufts and Carsten were more than halfway through the 13.1-mile annual race. Carsten was running the race for the third time and was joined Sunday by her sister, brother-in-law and parents on the trail. The couple was away from the rest of Carsten’s family and had just finished walking up a hill, quickening their pace to a run. Then Carsten noticed she didn’t hear Tufts behind her anymore. See Death / A4
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Marshall High School volunteer Sigrid Scully, 85, smiles as graduate Tiana Jordan hugs Nicole Whaley, right, on Monday evening. Scully tutors students in English at the school through in the Central Oregon Council on Aging’s Foster Grandparent program. This marked the third Marshall graduation Scully has attended. At each, she makes sure to give every graduate a hug.
With child CT scans on the rise, striving for a middle ground By Laura Ungar Special to The Washington Post
By Megan Kehoe The Bulletin
Each afternoon, Sigrid Scully, 85, drives the four miles from Marshall High School to her home in Northwest Crossing and thinks about how rich she is. But the wealth Scully reflects on during the drive has nothing to do with property or stocks or cash. “I drive home every day thinking about the wonder-
ful things that happened that day,” Scully said. “It might be something that one of the kids said to me, or a note that I’ve gotten from a teacher about how one of the kids improved or passed a test. But in every day, there’s a moment. And that moment is worth a million bucks to me.” Scully is a volunteer in the Central Oregon Council on Aging’s Foster Grandparent program, and she has been
volunteering at Marshall High School for the past three years. The program offers low-income seniors in the community a chance to volunteer at local schools while receiving a small stipend of $2.65 an hour. Before volunteering at Marshall, Scully volunteered at elementary schools in Redmond. Three years ago, she went to one of the Foster Grandparent program’s monthly meetings and viewed a presentation by
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the principal of Marshall High about the school’s need for a grandparent volunteer. “After seeing that presentation, it became a dream of mine to come here,” Scully said. See Scully / A4
Isabel Doran is only 4 years old, but she’s already had about 15 CT scans — and every one comes with a dose of radiation. “I think there’s always that part of you that thinks it’s too much,” said her mother, Veronica Doran, of Burke, Va. Doran is glad the scans have allowed doctors at Children’s National Medical Center to monitor Isabel’s progress while they treat her for a kidney cancer called Wilms’ tumor. But she’s worried about the long-term effects of the scans, which could put Isabel at risk for another cancer down the road. Although the risk is relatively small, many parents and doctors are raising such concerns as the use of CT scanning has surged among the young. See CT scans / A5
Supercomputer’s mission: super-accurate weather forecasts By Scott Gold Los Angeles Times
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Here in the shortgrass prairie, where being stuck in the ways of the Old West is a point of civic pride, scientists are building a machine that will, in effect, look into the future.
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This month, in a barren Wyoming landscape dotted with gopher holes and hay bales, the federal government is assembling a supercomputer 10 years in the making, one of the fastest computers ever built and the largest ever devoted to the study of atmospheric science.
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The National Center for Atmospheric Research’s supercomputer has been dubbed Yellowstone, after the nearby national park, but it could have been named Nerdvana. The machine will have 100 racks of servers and 72,000 core processors, so many parts that they must be delivered
in the back of a 747. Yellowstone will be capable of performing 1.5 quadrillion calculations — a quadrillion is a 1 followed by 15 zeros — every second. That’s nearly a quarter of a million calculations, each second, for every person on Earth. See Supercomputer / A5
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Isabel Doran, 4, gets reassurance from her mother as she enters a CT scanning device. Isabel has already had about 15 such scans.
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