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By Scott Hammers The Bulletin
The Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council is
China's coal problem
launching a wide-ranging study into how debris generated from forest-thinning projects might be put to
— China hasbeenburning 17 percent more coal eachyear than it previously said.A2
better use.
Forest managers cut thousands of tons of brush,
State elections — Kentucky elects its secondGOP governor in four decades, while Ohio shoots down an initiative to legalize pot.A4
tree limbs and small trees
Counting calories — How
several industries, but much
each year in Central Oregon, primarily to reduce the risk of wildfire. Collectively known as woody biomass, the material can be useful to
effective are calorie counts on restaurant menus?A3
of it is burned in slash piles during the wetter, cooler months of the year.
Scott Aycock, community andeconomic develop-
And a Webexclusive
— Brutal details of NewYork mafia life are brought to light during the trial of manwho helped plan the heist featured in the 1990 film "Goodfellas." bendbuiietin.cern/extrns
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ment manager for the coun-
cil, said the organization recently received a $121,000 grant from the U.S. Forest
Service and the Statewide Wood Energy Team. SeeBiomass/A4
The Big Summit wild horse herd management areacovers more than 27,000 acres in the OchocoNational Forest. The national forest plans to revise the management plan for the herd. Thecurrent plan is from 1975.
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In the lobby of a Mexico City office building, people scurrying to and fro gazed briefly at the digital billboard backing a candidate for Congress in June. They probably did not know the sign was reading them, too.
• Ochoco National Forest officials are revamping amanagement planfor a herd of wild horsesnear Prineville
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Insidethe ad,a camera
captured their facial expressions and fed them through an algorithm, reading emotional reactions like happiness, surprise, anger,disgust,fear and sadness. could then tweak the mes-
sage — the images, sounds
also known as the Ochoco Mustangs, has not been updated since 1975.
40-year-old manRevising the plan is a gement p l a n not related to the planned for a wild horse herd near roundup of wild horses east Prineville and is looking for of Lakeview in south-cenhelp from the public in the tral Oregon. The U.S. Burevision. reauofLand Management "We are basically began preparations +BP going to redo the Monday for the roundplan," Tory Kurtz, O l A5 up of more than 1,000 rangeland managewild horses in the ment specialist for the naBeatys Butte herd, drawing tional forest, said 'Ittesday. criticism from wild horse Congress enacted the advocacy groups. Wild Free-Roaming Horses The Big Summit herd is and Burros Act in 1971, and the only wild horse herd in four years later, in 1975, the Oregonand Washington Ochoco National Forest solely managed by the U.S.
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ABOVE: A foal from the Big Summit herd of wild horses lifts its head while resting in the sun in 2014. TOP OF PAGE: Members of the Big Summit herd walk through Ochoco National Forest.
By Princess Ojiaku Special to The Washington Post
We use coffee to stay
awake, good food and nutrition to stay healthy and alert. But if there was a drug that made you smarter,
helped you learn and made you more focused, would you take it?
That's a question Nicole
Vincent, associateprofessor
of philosophy, law and neuroscience at Georgia State
established a 27,300-acre
Forest Service. The BLM
University, asked to open her TED talk last year.
management areaforthe Big Summit herd of wild
manages most herds in Oregon. In the middle of the
That question also opened a Monday night debate at George Washington
wild horses in designated
Ochoco National Forest,
University in which two
areas, which include the more than42-square-mile
just west of Big Summit Prairie, the Big Summit
sides argued both for and against whether college students should be allowed to
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feedback, thecampaign
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Should students use 'smart drugs?
Big Summit management herd managementarea is area. The management plan predominantly wooded. for the Big Summit herd, SeeHorses/A5
take "smart drugs."
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or words — to come up with a version that voters
might like better. All over the world, politi-
To combat sexual assault,
cal campaigns are seeking voter data and insights that will propel them to victo-
ry. Now, in an increasing number of places, that
collegessay'yes meansyes'
includes the contentious
field known as neuromarketing — or in this case, neuropolitics.
By Bonnie MinerRubin
Technologies like facial coding, biofeedback and brain imaging have long been used by companies in the hope of pushing the boundaries of marketing and product development.
Chicago Tribune
But their use by political
parties andgovernments is a growing phenomenon, evoking futuristic scenes from the movie "Minority
Report," in which eerily well-informed billboards scan commuters' eyes and call out to them by name. SeeAdvertising /A5
CHICAGO — For Blake Bullock, talking about sex
Erin Hooley i Chicago Tribune via Tribune News Service
Graduate student Blake Bullock speaks to a First Year Campus Acquaintance Rape Education class in Illinois last month.
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different turn.
is nothing new. As a peer
"We' re spending a lot of time on the nuances of con-
educator at the University of
sent because that's where
Illinois, he leads discussions on everything from birth
many students get tripped up," said Bullock, a graduate
control to sexually transmit-
student in social work in
ted diseases.
Champaign, Illinois. "They
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do worry that it's going to ruin the mood." As sexual assault cases on
campuseshave moved from private matter to public spotlight, college officials around the country are revamping their sexual misconduct
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