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JOHANNESBURG — The official mascot of Africa’s first World Cup — a stuffed leopard with spiked green hair — was made in China. The official World Cup anthem, “Waka Waka” (“This Time for Africa”), was written by the Colombian pop star Shakira. The official restaurant? McDonald’s. And with less than three weeks before the world’s most watched sporting event, only 36,000 of the almost 3 million tickets have been sold in Africa outside of South Africa itself, the host. On a continent whose people mostly live on the wrong side of the digital divide, tickets were mainly marketed online. “This is not our World Cup,” explained Greg Fredericks, a senior manager for South Africa’s World Cup organizing committee. He noted the dominant role of FIFA, soccer’s Zurich-based world governing body. “It is FIFA’s World Cup. We are just the organizers. We are the stage.” See World Cup / A5
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The 2010 World Cup mascot, seen at a shopping mall in Cape Town, South Africa, has a “Made in China” label.
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Mike Rafall, 34, of La Pine, plays fetch with his dog Athena at Meadow Camp last week as his friend Jesse Haines, 36, of Bend, looks on. Dogs must be on a leash from May 15 through Sept. 15 on the Deschutes River Trail — except when they’re entering or exiting water sources to swim and play.
Off-leash options Deschutes, Ochoco national forest areas among the possibilities
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Maximus, a Great Dane owned by Maria Gonzalez, of Bend (far left), plays with some smaller dogs in Riverbend Park’s off-leash area. Inside Bend’s city limits, owners like Gonzalez must be careful to follow off-leash rules or they risk a $372 fine.
“On 96 percent of the Deschutes National Forest, a person can have their dog off leash and enjoy some of the most beautiful and wild places in Central Oregon.” — Forest Supervisor John Allen
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Maria Gonzalez, owner of 2½year-old Maximus and a French bulldog named Bocci, said she brings the dogs to the off-leash area every day. Maximus gets upset if they don’t go to the park, explained Gonzalez, standing amid a constantly moving pack of yelping dogs, swirling around the Great Dane. Within Bend’s city limits, pet owners like Gonzalez who step off private property must keep their dogs on a leash or risk a $372 ticket, said Community Service Officer Crea Lancaster, of the Bend Police Department. “The only people that we deal with now that don’t really get it are people who just moved here
and don’t know it is such a hot topic, or the really hard-core ones that don’t care,” Lancaster said. “We do still have a small group of vigilant folks who just want to run their dogs wherever they want.” Bend residents who want to let their dogs run free in wideopen spaces do have options beyond the seven off-leash areas located within the city. In the Deschutes National Forest, dogs are still allowed off leash in all areas most of the year — with the exception of the popular Deschutes River corridor, and established recreation and campsites. See Dogs / A6
On the Web The Bulletin interviewed visitors walking their dogs near the Meadow Camp Picnic Area about the leash requirement. Watch the video at www.bendbulletin.com/offleash.
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For North Korea policy, China prefers the fence By Sharon Lafraniere New York Times News Service
BEIJING — In the best of times, Chinese foreign affairs scholars say, Beijing grits its teeth while playing best friend to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. South Korea’s charge last week that North Korea sank one of its warships, killing 46 crewmen, makes that role harder. With Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and about 200 other U.S. officials here for security and economic talks, Chinese leaders face two unpalatable options: mollify North Korea, and risk undermining its efforts to convince the U.S., South Korea and Japan that China is a stabilizing force in East Asia; or condemn North Korea for the attack, which it denies, and risk a wholly unpredictable response from a volatile neighbor. See North Korea / A6
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It will probably be several years before the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality takes actions to try to reduce the amount of nitrates seeping into groundwater in southern Deschutes County and northern Klamath County. Almost a year after the state agency took the lead to come up with solutions, DEQ staff members are assembling a group of citizens to come up with additional questions that need answering as well as possible ways to tackle the problem. And what the agency does from there depends on what the citizen committee finds in a year or two of examining the issue. “It’s going to be a slow process,” said Bob Baggett, on-site wastewater specialist with the Bend DEQ office. “We’re in the very first steps.” He added that the process itself isn’t yet set in stone. “We haven’t got this figured out yet, nor should we, because we need to work with citizens and come up with a comprehensive and sustainable plan.” But the agency will, in the end, come up with a solution or set of solutions to address the problem, he said. See Nitrates / A5
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Raven Morgan can’t believe a nurse who knowingly exposed patients to the risk of infections such as HIV/AIDS can still work in Florida. Morgan’s boyfriend, John Krug, was one of 1,851 patients on whom nurse Qui Lan acknowledged reusing intravenous supplies, potentially exposing them to contact with other patients’ blood. None of Lan’s patients who have been tested is known to have contracted a disease as a result. The Fort Lauderdale nurse can practice, although it’s unclear if she is. “She still has a license? I don’t believe it. That makes me sick,” said Morgan. Count her among the patients, malpractice attorneys and consumer advocates who say Florida’s system for policing the state’s 66,000 doctors and 840,000 other medical professionals is feeble and ineffective. See Doctors / A5
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