Bulletin Daily Paper 02/06/10

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Bend Research ‘a key player’ in state biotech

GOING GREEN

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Bulletin t doesn’t take switching to solar panels or buying a hybrid car to live a more environmentally friendly For every budget, there are life. things people can do to reduce their energy consumption “I think people do feel and waste. that in order to be green and live sustainably, they able income, but it’s not need to have a lot of dispostrue really,” said Shauna Quistorff, with Bend’s Environ While buying energy-e mental Center. fficient appliances or switchin g to an all organic diet also are actions people cost money, she said, there can take that don’t cost anything — like turning off lights when you leave Here are some other ways a room. to live greener on a range of budgets.

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Through its 10-year partnership with Pfizer, it has become a specialist in pharm aceuticals

By Andrew Moore

The Bulletin

Central Oregon is home number of biotechnology, to a mation technology and inforcleanenergy companies, all of which comprise a growing portion of the region’s economy — and one civic leaders would like to expand. Founded in 1975, Bend Research Inc. is one of the High Desert’s original technology companies, and company President and CEO Rod Ray has worked there practi

insect-control products. Bend Research’s work eventually led to an exclusive 10-year partnership with the pharmace utical giant Pfizer. Bend Research helped Pfizer surmount a of technical hurdles, fromvariety oping ways for insoluble develdrugs to be absorbed by the body to engineering manufacturing methods. “They are probably one of the top five companies in the biospace in Oregon,” John Tortorici, executive director of the

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Racing wraps up at Bachelor

Proposal could alter spending in Salem With budgets tending to grow, Democratic push for yearly sessions gains favor with some Republicans By Nick Budnick The Bulletin

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Canadian Caroline Calve approaches a gate during her second of two runs Friday on her way to winning the NorAm Race to the Cup giant slalom event at Mt. Bachelor. Calve finished second in the parallel giant slalom race on Thursday. For full coverage, see Sports, Page D1.

TOP NEWS INSIDE TOYOTA: ‘We are facing a crisis,’ company chief says in apology, Page A2 HAITI: A rising TB crisis, a crumbling hospital and a lone nurse, Page A2

New York Times News Service

On free Fridays, most Redmond students’ choice is to do own thing Unemployment

traumas follow many jobless back to work

By Patrick Cliff The Bulletin

REDMOND — Jed Riddell had heard of Choice Friday but thought little of it until his 8-year-old son recently handed him a flier. Soon after, Riddell’s son signed up for the program and now spends his extra day off shooting hoops with friends at Terrebonne Community School. Riddell used to spend most Fridays with his son, often hiking or fishing. But it was difficult to keep active every week, and so Choice Friday was attractive. “On a lot of Fridays, it was, ‘OK, what are we doing? I don’t want to sit here all day,’” Jed remembered his son saying. Riddell’s son, also named Jed, is in a minority in the Redmond School District. Only about 7 percent of district students use the program. Even though overall attendance has been low, some options have attracted more than 100 students each Friday. See Redmond / A6

By Michael Luo New York Times News Service

Ryan Brennecke / The Bulletin

Martial arts instructor Susan Picard teaches Kelly Duggan, left, and Brittany Hills, both 11, how to block a punch Friday. The students were taking the Blue Dragon Martial Arts class at Elton Gregory Middle School as part of the Choice Friday program.

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Business

Local

C1-8 B3

How many chips in a serving? It could change

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Movies

Classified

F1-6

Obituaries

Comics

B4-5

Sports

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By William Neuman

Community B1-6

Stocks

C4-5

Crossword B5, F2

Sudoku

Editorial

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TV listings

B2

Horoscope

B5

Weather

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Seeking a new weapon in the fight against obesity, the Food and Drug Administration wants manufacturers to post nutritional information, including calories, on the front of food packages. The goal is to give people a jolt of re-

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SALEM — Remember all those anti-tax ads in January showing $4.7 billion in increased state spending last year? Well, they could have gone further. The budget actually grew nearly $3 billion more than that, measuring from the budget approved by lawmakers in a special session two years ago. But when lawmakers go home, decisions don’t stop getting made in Salem. It’s a little-known fact that some new spending gets OK’d not by elected legislators, but by IN THE bureaucrats. That, however, could LEGISLATURE change under a plan to rewrite the Oregon Constitution to allow for annual legislative sessions, which could be headed for the November ballot. Democrats are spearheading the change from the current biennial sessions this month, in a special session originally intended as a test run. And they’re finding a surprising amount of support for the constitutional rewrite among Republican lawmakers and activists. Sen. Chris Telfer, R-Bend, says she favors the idea as long as it has “strict limits” on the time and expense devoted to each session. “I think things happen in this state so quickly that we can’t wait a year to address them,” she said. See Sessions / A6

Inside

New York Times News Service

• What’s a serving? Page A7

ality. But the message could be muted by a long-standing problem: Official serving sizes for many packaged foods

RALEIGH, N.C. — Antje Newby went back to work in September, but she has still not escaped the burden imposed by nine months of unemployment. Newby and her husband were forced to walk away from their home in suburban Detroit and are now living here in a rented house with their three Inside children. They are bracing for • Jobless rate a huge tax bill in the spring unexpectedly because of early withdrawals drops, they made on her 401(k) and Page C3 taxes they still owe on unemployment benefits. Their credit is in tatters, and their 16-year marriage showed cracks they are still trying to repair. “We’re not done living through the fallout of all of that,” Newby said, four months into her new job as an account director of an advertising agency. See Jobless / A7

are just too small. And that means the calorie counts that go with them are often misleading. So to get ready for front-of-package nutrition labeling, the FDA is now looking at bringing serving sizes for many snack foods into line with how Americans really eat. See Snacks / A7

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