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SALT LAKE CITY — Along one wall of Dr. Russell Stewart’s laboratory at the University of Utah sits a saltwater tank containing a strange object: a rock-hard lump the size of a soccer ball, riddled with hundreds of small holes. It has the look of something that fell from outer space, but its origins are earthly, the intertidal waters of the California coast. It’s a home of sorts, occupied by a colony of Phragmatopoma californica, otherwise known as the sandcastle worm. Actually, it’s more of a condominium complex. Each hole is the entrance to a separate tube, built one upon another by worm after worm. P. californica is a master mason, fashioning its tube, a shelter that it never leaves, from grains of sand and tiny bits of scavenged shell. But it doesn’t slather on the mortar like a bricklayer. Rather, using a specialized organ on its head, it produces a microscopic dab or two of glue that it places, just so, on the existing structure. Then it wiggles a new grain into place and lets it set. What is most remarkable — and the reason these worms are in Stewart’s lab, far from their native habitat — is that it does all this underwater. “Man-made adhesives are very impressive,” said Stewart, an associate professor of bioengineering at the university. “You can glue airplanes together with them. But this animal has been gluing things together underwater for several hundred million years, which we still can’t do.” See Adhesives / A4
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Taylor Hanna, front, and Audrey Colton Smith, dressed as Audrey Hepburn and Lucille Ball, greet attendees as they make their red-carpet entrance to the Dine Around Bend event at the Tower Theatre on Monday evening. The event was part of the 26th annual Oregon Governor’s Conference on Tourism, which ends today.
In Oregon and far beyond, ‘culture matters’ By Tim Doran The Bulletin
Wade Davis, National Geographic explorer in residence, introduced Oregon tourism professionals to cultures from around the world during his keynote address Monday at a state tourism gathering in Bend. An author, photographer and filmmaker, Davis spoke about the wisdom to be found among
the world’s cultures, weaving in his exploration adventures as photographs — many of them faces captured in close up — appeared on two screens. “Culture is not trivial,” he told tourism industry professionals gathered at The Riverhouse Hotel & Convention Center. “Culture matters.” Davis gave his address at the 26th annual Oregon Governor’s Conference on Tourism, which
began Sunday and ends today. Gov. Ted Kulongoski spoke to participants Monday morning. It’s the first time Bend has hosted the conference, which is billed as the tourism industry’s premier gathering, although it has been held previously in the region. About 420 people had registered as of Monday afternoon, conference officials said. See Tourism / A4
Wade Davis was the keynote speaker at the tourism conference.
A masterpiece lost ... and found By Carol J. Williams Los Angeles Times
The sandcastle worm makes its tube-shaped home from pieces of sand and shell and attaches them with its own natural glue.
LA MESA, Calif. — After a lunch of chopped egg and crackers, Claude Cassirer plants his walker on the worn floorboards of his tiny living room, rhythmically inching his way down the hall to his study. It is a short constitutional he takes each day to regard a gilt-framed memento of a lost life of privilege. The frame holds a copy of an Impressionist masterpiece, “Rue Saint-Honore, Apres Midi, Effet de Pluie,” by Camille Pissarro, which takes him back
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to his grandmother’s lavishly furnished Berlin parlor in the 1920s. It was at the foot of the original painting depicting horse-drawn carriages on a rain-dappled Right Bank thoroughfare that Cassirer played as a child, running his wooden trucks and trains over a plush Oriental carpet. “She was like a mother to me,” Cassirer, who will be 89 next month, recalls of his grandmother, Lilly, who raised him when his mother died shortly after his birth. See Painting / A5
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SALEM — Familiar faces lead the race for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, those of Bill Bradbury and John Kitzhaber. Kitzhaber spent two terms as Oregon’s governor, from 1995 to 2003, while Bradbury served as Oregon’s secretary of state from 2000 to 2008. Now they’re back for another shot at the state’s political stage. And despite having been Democrats in roughly the same era, they are flashing two very distinct political profiles as they head toward the May 18 primary vote. Bradbury, 60, has aggres- • If you missed it: sively wooed the more liberal GOP is likely wing of the Democratic Party, portraying himself as a bold to bet on leader who will fight for the newcomers environment, the economy in race for and school funding. governor “I’ve laid out some very clear Online at proposals to get our economy www.bend moving again,” he said. “I’ve bulletin.com talked at length about how we basically need to become the /elections sustainability capital of the world ... we’re really dropping the ball as a state on funding education.” Kitzhaber, 63, has just as decisively staked out a more moderate position, portraying himself as a pragmatist who will forge alliances with Republicans and others to solve Oregon’s problems. “We have to recreate a political center in Oregon,” he said, adding that he is using his campaign platform for that purpose. “You can’t wait until November to do that.” See Democrats / A5
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Corrections In a story headlined “Jail bond would double capacity,” which appeared Sunday, April 11, on Page A1, information about population projections for Deschutes County was incorrect. The population estimates used in a 2005 study on the jail expansion came from the 2004 Deschutes County Coordinated Population Forecast for Year 2025. The projected population of 214,479 in 2025 came from a Portland State University estimate released in 2004. • • •
LOS ANGELES — Colorado researchers have discovered and partially mapped a major urban center once occupied by the Purepecha of Mexico, a little-known people who fought the betterknown Aztecs to a standstill and who controlled much of western Mexico until diseases brought by the Spanish decimated them. The “proto-urban center,” which researchers have not yet named, sat on volcanic rock on the shores of Lake Patzcuaro in the central Mexican state of Michoacan, now a tourist destination. It supported as many as 40,000 people until the consolidation of the Purepecha empire around AD 1350 led most of its inhabitants to relocate to the new capital of Tzintzuntzan, six miles away. See Mexico / A4
In a story about a Deschutes County budget proposal for pensions and health care, which appeared Saturday, April 10 on Page A1, the impact of a county budget proposal appeared incorrectly in the headline. The county could pay more for workers’ health care. In the same story, County Administrator Dave Kanner’s budget proposal was reported incorrectly. Kanner’s proposal is to lower contributions to the county’s pension reserve fund, but actual payments to the Public Employees Retirement System for employee retirement funds would be unchanged. The Bulletin regrets the errors.