Bulletin Daily Paper 09/03/10

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Extremists send their message to Mideast negotiators

STUDYING COLLIER GLACIER

Secrets in the OSU grad student Cody Beedlow leads a team of researchers collecting data on the Cascades glacier, in hopes of finding out why it’s shrinking

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Deschutes Sheriff’s Office gets a $450K makeover

Warring factions rally around a common goal: sinking the talks

Remodel will provide space for detectives, offices for commanders

By Edmund Sanders

By Erin Golden

Los Angeles Times

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HEBRON, West Bank — The fate of the U.S.-sponsored peace talks launched Thursday in Washington could hinge in part on how things play out in this hotly disputed West Bank city, where extremists on opposite sides suddenly find they share a common purpose: to sabotage the process. The militant PalestinInside ian movement • As talks Hamas, which begin, hasn’t openly Clinton urges attacked West leaders to Bank settlers seek “future in about two of peace,” years, renewed its campaign Page A3 of violence this week with two drive-by shootings. It claimed responsibility for killing four settlers near Hebron on Tuesday and injuring two others a day later near Ramallah. Jewish settlers around Hebron responded by throwing rocks at Palestinians and setting fire to a field. On Thursday, they demonstrated their contempt for what they termed the “fancy ceremonies” in Washington by rolling out bulldozers and cement mixers to resume construction in defiance of Israel’s 10-month moratorium. The developments serve as a reminder that before Israeli and Palestinians negotiators can tackle big-picture issues such as the borders of a Palestinian state, the status of Jerusalem and refugees, the peace process will have to survive some daunting short-term challenges. See Mideast / A3

The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office has begun a $450,000 remodel project that will allow the office to take over space formerly used by other agencies. This week, the Deschutes County Commission gave its stamp of approval to a contract between the Sheriff’s Office and Kirby Nagelhout Construction. The work will be focused on a 6,404-square-foot area on the second floor of the facility on Highway 20 in north Bend, which until recently had been occupied by Deschutes County 911 and the FBI. Capt. Marc Mills said the Sheriff’s Office moved into the building in 1996, and within a few years, it was also home to the county’s 911 dispatch center and the local FBI office. Over time, the Sheriff’s Office expanded and outgrew its section of the building, forcing the Detectives Division to move to another facility across town, near the courthouse. Mills said the distance has created some problems for his staff, though the location has allowed detectives to provide help to courthouse staff on a few occasions and allowed them to work closely with the District Attorney’s Office, located down the street. See Remodel / A4

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Glaciers of North and Middle Sister Shown below are rough outlines of the glaciers flanking North and Middle Sister, including Collier Glacier, where Oregon State University researchers conducted research on Saturday. Based on a 1994 Geo-Graphics Three Sisters Wilderness Map, the outlines are overlayed on a 2005 satellite photo. Research being conducted by OSU aims to better measure the shrinking glaciers of the Cascades.

Collier Cone 7,534 ft.

By Scott Hammers The Bulletin

Monday morning, Cody Beedlow woke up in a familiar place

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— 8,000 feet up on Oregon’s largest glacier, nestled in a tent covered with fresh-fallen snow and surrounded by scientific instruments. Beedlow, a 28-year-old native of Corvallis and a graduate student at Oregon State University, has been making the 8- to 9-mile trek up to Collier Glacier, nestled between North Sister and South Sister, nearly every month for the last two years as part of an extended project to find out more about why the glacier is shrinking. There’s no question Collier Glacier has been getting smaller over the last 100 years or so. Pictures taken by the Mazamas mountaineering club in the 1920s show the glacier more than a mile farther down the slope than it extends today. Pictures taken

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Renfrew Glacier

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Hayden Glacier

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since then have produced what Beedlow describes as a “time-lapse photography” record of the glacier retreating toward higher altitude. Getting an answer about why the glacier is shrinking is more complicated. Is it melting at lower altitudes as a result of overly warm summers? Or is because of in-

adequate snowfall in winter, reducing the ice accumulation that builds up at higher altitudes and creeps downhill over time? And how do temperature, wind, humidity, solar radiation and other variables factor in to what’s happening in both summer and winter? See Glacier / A4

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BERLIN — When a German banker and former government official spoke publicly here about a “Jewish gene,” attacked Islam as a source of violence and stunted development, and espoused genetic theories that evoked the fright of the Nazi past, the political leadership here quickly condemned him as racist and called for him to be fired.

But Thilo Sarrazin has not emerged as the marginalized hate-monger the initial condemnation suggested. Instead, he has set off a painful public discussion that highlights one of the nation’s most vexing challenges: How to overcome what is widely seen as a failed immigration policy that has done little to support and integrate the nearly 20 percent of the population who have an immigrant background. See Germany / A5

Measures of progress reevaluated Los Angeles Times

Germany wrestles with its own immigration debate New York Times News Service

EDUCATION

By Jason Song, Jason Felch and Doug Smith

On the Web Explore the Collier Glacier on Google Earth: http://bit.ly/cUVrEn

By Michael Slackman

“We had (the remodel) budgeted for last year, and it was made possible from savings in prior years’ budgets.” — Jim Ross, Sheriff’s Office business manager

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In this historical photo, taken from atop Little Brother (marked B on the map) circa 1910, the glacier is shown reaching more than a mile farther than it does today.

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Taken facing south from the south flank of Collier Cone (marked A on the map below) on Saturday, this photo shows the Collier Glacier at its smallest, in late summer. The glacier, shown here just below the peak near the center of the image, is shown in historical photos reaching down at least to the glacial lake in the foreground.

A street scene in the Turkish enclave of Berlin, where a debate on immigration policy is under way. Gordon Welters New York Times News Service

LOS ANGELES — Five families from across the San Fernando Valley set up camp for three nights by the front door of Wilbur Avenue Elementary School in 2009, intent on getting a spot for their children in one of the best-regarded schools in Los Angeles. Others hired someone to hold their place in line. This spring, the school in affluent Tarzana began using a lottery for applicants from outside the neighborhood. Within hours, more than a dozen children were on the list. What these determined families could not have known is that Wilbur’s record was among the worst in L.A. for boosting student performance in math and English. See Education / A5


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