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COUNTY LINE 2 FIRE
Ducks' defensive woes
Making
— Oregon looks for a quick fix ahead of its much-anticipated visit to Michigan State.B1
the forest
Brewing explodes onto a crowded beer scene.C6
healthy
Autucyclus —Half car,
after fire
Brew biz —North Rim
half motorcycle, these new, super-fast vehicles can reach speeds of 160 mph.A3
By Scott Hammers
• Undocumented students facemajor financial hurdles when it comesto paying for college
And a Wed exclusiveHowsome police officers are responding to a recent rash of officer deaths. beudbulletiu.curn/extras
The actual costs of hospitals' sel'vices By Gina Kolata New York Times News Service
SALT LAKE CITY-
Only in the world of medicine would Dr. Vivian Lee' s question have seemed radical. She wanted to know:
What do the goods and services provided by the hospital system where she is chief executive actually cost?
With the County Line 2 Fire on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation approaching full containment,
By Abby Spegmane The Bulletin
tribal officials now turn their attention to rehabilitat-
Brayan Gonzalez's story is one of hard
ing land damaged by nearly a month of firefighting. Since it began Aug. 12, the fire has burned an esti-
work and determination. And very bad
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timing. The 23-year-old from Madras
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Brayan Gonzalez gives the student commencement address at Central Oregon Community College's graduation in June in Bend. He plans to attend Portland State University this fall
to earn a bachelor's degree. He wants to double major in criminology and communication to go into law enforcement. More than anything, he wants to help people. But Gonzalez was born in Mexico and came to the
country illegally when he was 4 years old with his
graduated from Central Oregon Community College in June.
not eligible for financial aid and he doesn't quality for instate college tuition, meaning instead of about $6,700 he' ll pay about $19,500. He has scholarships and some savings from a sum-
over the numbers again and again. "Sometimes I can't even sleep. That's why I know
mer job, but with classes
starting at the end of the
job, but they' re in the back of my mind. Kind of like
in Oregon face trying to go to college. While lawmakers
month, he is desperate to
when you have a stone in
have acted in recent years to
cover a $5,000 tuition gap. And that still leaves housing,
your shoe? You put it aside, you don't want to address it
transportation, books, food.
for a little bit, but you know it's there," he said. "And the
help, there are still major hurdles and gaps students like Gonzalez can fall through. SeeCollege/A4
mother and baby sister. He is
Gonzalez said he has gone
them so well. When I'm at work, I try not to think about them, just concentrate on my
date is coming closer, and it' s
coming to the point where you have to address it. It' s kind of like do or die, yeah." Gonzalez's experience illustrates the challenges undocumented immigrants
Most businesses know the cost of everything that
goes into producing what they sell — essential infor-
mation for setting prices. Medicine is different. Hospitals know what they are
paid by insurers, but it bears little relationship to their
mated 67,207
and west of Warm
Springs. It reportedly destroyed four houses, threatened 955 and forced
the temporary closure of Highway 26, according to the Northwest Interagency Coordination Center and the Oregon Department of Transportation.
Most of the fire's growth came in the first week. SeeFire /A5
America' s network of spies in the Arctic By Brian Bennett and W.J. Hennigan
COStS.
Tribune Washington Bureau
No one on Lee's staff at the University of Utah Health Care could say what a minute in an MRI
WASHINGTON — As
China and Russia boost their military presence in
machine or an hour in the operating room actually costs. They chuckled when she asked.
the resource-rich far north,
U.S. intelligence agencies are scrambling to study potential threats in the Arctic
for the first time since the Cold War, a sign of the region's growing strategic importance.
But now, thanks to a
project Lee set in motion after that initial query several years ago, the hospital is getting answers, information that is not only
Over the last 14 months, most of the 16 U.S. in-
saving money but also improving care.
telligence agencies have assigned analysts to work full-time on the Arctic.
SeeHospital /A4
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence
recently convened a "strategy board" to bring the
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Brayan Gonzalez sits in front of the Modoc building, where he attended many of his classes on Central Oregon Community
analysts together to share
College's campus in Bend. Gonzalez graduated in Juneand spoke at the commencement ceremony. He plans to head to Portland
their findings. SeeSpies/A4
State University to double major in criminology and communication in the fall.
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Andrea Morates / The New York Times
Robert Gray, a long-haul trucker who is Mississippi's Democratic nominee for governor, meets with Rickey Cole, left, the chairman
of the Mississippi Democratic Party.
Otherwise, no one — not
even Gray's mother, with whom he lives — knew.
knew that he was running in
At least she voted for him
the primary for governor of Mississippi.
when she saw his name on the Aug. 4 ballot. Gray, 46,
There were the two volun-
a round-faced, soft-spoken
on to win, taking 79 out of Mississippi's 82 counties. Gray beat two other candi-
dates, who unlike him spent money and campaigned. Democratic Party officials
were stunned. The news media was stunned. Gray, now Mississippi's Democratic
teers who took his $300 filing fee and qualifying papers sev-
long-haul truck driver who lives on a quiet country road
eral months ago at the state
south of Jackson, was too
some interviews and then set off with a truck full of sweet
Democratic Party office and the candidate for agriculture commissioner who happened
busy working on his rig to vote himself. He would, nonetheless, go
potatoes for a potato chip factory in Pennsylvania. SeeMississippi/A4
nominee for governor, gave