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Hiking the Oregon Coast — A secluded beachserves as a reward for a family-friendly hike at Ecola State Park.D1

Plus: Fishing — Even with low water and restrictions, there are still plenty of fish out to be caught.D1

Video games as teaching tools — video games that teach players aboutlakeecosystems? An organization is using games to promote learning. A3

is coming to the Crooked River Gorge. WOULD YOU TAKE THIS PLUNGE'? The High Bridge across the Crooked River Gorge will get a little more

and Crookcounties aretaking a wait-and-seeapproachto pot. B1

with the opening of the region's first commercial bungee jumping operation.

EDITOR'5CHOICE

The pushto end solitary confinement intensifies By Peter Baker and Erica Goode New Yorh Times News Service

WASHINGTON — Be-

fore he was exonerated of murder and released in 2010, Anthony Graves

spent 18 years locked up in a Texas prison, 16 of them all alone in a tiny cell. Actually, he does not count it that way. He counts his time in solitary

confinementas"60 square feet, 24 hours a day, 6,640 days." The purpose, Graves came to conclude, was simple. "It is designed to break a man's will to live," he said in an interview. An estimated 75,000 state and federal prisoners are

held in solitary confinement in the United States, and for the first time in generations

U.S. leaders are rethinking the practice. President Barack Obama last week

The Washington Post

Women who dis-

play the early signs that can precede Alzheimer's disease

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harrowing next month,

A Russian entrepreneur is committing $100 million to fund the search for alien life. bendbnlletin.corn/extras

By Frednck Kunkle

of mental decline

By Scott Hammers

Regulating pot — Jefferson

And a Webexclusive-

Alzheimer' s decline faster for women?

deteriorate faster than men with the same

condition, a new study has found. ~ tten~,.

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Another study suggests that women' s

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James Scott, a Bend resident and longtime diver, said Mon›

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day he recently received autho-

cognitive abilities decline faster than men' s after undergoing surgery with general anesthesia. A third

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an abnormal protein that plays a key role in triggering Alzheimer's accumulates at higher rates in wom-

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Central Oregon Bungee

men' s.

Adventures.

The new research, presented this week at

Scott and a group of experienced bungee jumpers will be at the High Bridge near Terrebonne late next week for test jumps and will have their first paying customers jumping off the bridge Aug. 1.

the Alzheimer's Association International

Conference in Washington, lends addition"

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higher risk than men of developing Alzheimer's disease and may be more vulnerable to its damaging effects once the illness gets going.

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"This will be the first

approved (at the High Bridge)," Scott said. "There've been pirated jumps before, illegal

"The bottom line

jumps, but this is the first

legal operation." State parks operates

is, more and more we think there are some

the Peter Skene Ogden

differences," said

State Scenic Viewpoint, including the historic High Bridge. Opened in

Kristine Yaffe, a professorofpsychiatry, neurology and epidemiology at the University of California

1926, the narrow, 295-

foot high bridge has been restricted to pedestrians

at San Francisco. "It' s not just that women

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since traffic on U.S. Highway 97 moved to a larger

are living to be older

bridge just to the east in

— that's true, and that

2000. Dave Slaught, manager

drives some of this.

of the viewpoint for the

else going on in terms of biology (and) envi-

But there's something

state Parks Department,

ronment for women

said herejected more than two dozen requests

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for commercial bungee jumping from the High Joe Kline/The Bulletin Bridge before Scott apFacing west, this view looks down into the Crooked River Gorge from the memorial bridge at the Peter proached him. Skene Ogden State Scenic Viewpoint on Tuesday near Terrebonne. A commercial bungee jumping operSee Bungee /A4 ation is planning to conduct jumps at the gorge.

that may make them at greater risk or, if

they have some symptoms, may change the progression." See Alzheimer's /A4

ordered a Justice Department review of solitary con-

finement while Congress and more than a dozen states consider limits on it.

Justice Anthony Kennedy, in a Supreme Court ruling last month, all but invited a

constitutional challenge. See Solitary /A6

How brightening clouds could help cool our climate By Lisa M. Krieger San Jose Mercury News

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — A

team of elder Silicon Valley sci-

Correction In a story headlined "Wyden visits Central Oregon to check season's progress," which appeared Sunday,July 19, on Page A5, the term usedfor fire teams was incorrect. The teams are called incident management teams. The Bulletin regrets the error.

planet. The men — retired physicists, engineers, chemists and computer experts from some of

entists is building an audacious

Silicon Valley's top tech com-

device that might solve one of humanity's most profound

panies — have been meeting four days a week for seven years in the Sunnyvale, California, lab of the Marine Cloud

dilemmas — a "cloud whitener"

designed to cool a warming

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Brightening Project to design a tool that creates perfectly

suspendeddropletsofw ater resembling fog. Their goal is to launch the

nation's first open-air field trial of controversial "geoengineering" at a still-unidentified site

in Moss Landing. There, they

would test the ability of an en-

ergy-efficient machine to hurl tiny seawater droplets into a graceful trajectory — the first stepofaresearch projectto boost the brightness of douds to reflect rays of sunlight back into space.

warming," said Jack Foster, 79,

a physicist and laser pioneer. "We are not interested in deploying it unless it's necessary. But we'd like to have something available, so we know what works and what doesn't work."

"We are interested in an

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