Bulletin Daily Paper 09/14/10

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New research has found that alcohol-based hand sanitizers aren’t really effective at warding off the flu or even the common cold.

Area teens excelling or making gains on the SAT

Task force is mobilized to tackle traffic problem By Sheila G. Miller The Bulletin

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Think hand sanitizer will protect you from the flu? Think again By Karen Kaplan Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — If the presence of all those alcohol-based hand sanitizers makes you feel safe from disease, read no further. The sanitizers — Purell, GermX and the like — started popping up everywhere last year after the outbreak of the H1N1 “swine flu” virus. But new research out of the University of Virginia finds that they are of no particular use in warding off the flu. They also failed to ward off rhinovirus, a major cause of the common cold. The researchers, led by Dr. Ronald Turner, tested the sanitizers in real-world conditions. They asked 116 volunteers to carry around a sanitizer with “enhanced antiviral activity” and use it every three hours while they were awake. Another group of 96 volunteers followed their usual routines. Researchers tracked them for 10 weeks, collecting specimens once a week to test for flu and rhinovirus. Additional samples were taken whenever a study participant complained of cold or flu-like symptoms. It turned out that sanitizer users developed 12 flu infections per 100 volunteers, compared with 15 cases of flu per 100 volunteers in the group that didn’t do anything special. See Health / A4

Attempting to drive through the area where Mt. Washington Drive meets Century Drive around 2:30 p.m. is a mistake most drivers make just once. The traffic snarl that grows near Cascade Middle School at the start or end of each school day has gotten bad enough that neighborhood residents have created a task force, city officials are

looking into the issue and school administrators are working with parents to solve the problem. “It’s not a good road to be on at that time of day unless you’re picking up a middle-school kid,” said Cascade Middle School Principal Stephanie Bennett. Bennett is in her first year at the school; previously she served as principal of Pilot Butte Middle School. See Traffic / A5

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School buses and other vehicles negotiate the intersection at Mountaineer Way and Mt. Washington Drive in southwest Bend on Monday afternoon.

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Big ups downs UPHILL Jason Adams, 31, left, and Scott Hubbs, 30, ran 22 miles together from Bend to the summit of Mount Bachelor earlier this month. It’s a feat that even an Olympic athlete would probably consider difficult. So what made the pair decide to tackle this challenge? Find out in Sports, Page D1.

DOWNHILL An off-camera flash lights up Edward Micek and another competitor as they race down Funner trail west of Bend on Monday evening through the lightning and rain while competing in the invitation-only Blitz to the Barrel mountain bike event. Tim Evens was the winner of the informal super downhill event that had competitors racing on trails from Wanoga Sno-Park west of Bend to 10 Barrel on Galveston Street. Jeff Wick The Bulletin

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Ad buying by GOP-leaning groups alarms Democrats By Michael Luo New York Times News Service

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Sources: Bend-La Pine, Redmond and Crook County school districts, Oregon Department of Education

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CUBA: Government plans to lay off 500,000 employees, Page A6

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Students in Bend-La Pine Schools in 2009-10 continued to average a higher SAT score than their counterparts around the state and nation, according to numbers released by the College Board on Monday. Redmond and Crook County school district students are still slightly below their state peers, but are making gains in some areas. The SAT is a widely used college entrance exam administered by the College Board. It has three sections measuring students’ aptitude in reading, writing and math. Each section is worth 800 points for a total of 2,400 possible points. Statewide, students’ writing and reading scores increased by 2 points and math scores stayed the same. The 14,097 public high schoolers who took the test scored an average of 521 on the reading, 523 on math and 496 on writing, for an average total of 1,540. That’s above the national average of 1,497. See SATs / A4

How local students fared on the SAT

OIL SPILL: Gulf damage may fall short of dire predictions, Page A3

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Bend-La Pine students beat state average; other districts improve

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YOUNG FOOTBALL PLAYERS AT RISK?

Suicide puts brain disease in the spotlight U of Penn player suffered from same condition as 20 dead NFL players By Alan Schwarz New York Times News Service

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — A brain autopsy of a University of Pennsylvania football player who killed himself in April has revealed the same traumainduced disease found in more

than 20 deceased National Football League players, raising questions of how young football players may be at risk for the disease. Owen Thomas, a popular 6foot-2, 240-pound lineman for Penn with no previous history

of depression, hanged himself in his off-campus apartment after what friends and family have described as a sudden and uncharacteristic emotional collapse. Doctors at Boston University subsequently received

permission from the family to examine Thomas’ brain tissue and discovered that he was in the early stages of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a disease linked to depression and impulse control primarily among NFL players, two of whom also committed suicide in the last 10 years. See Brain / A4

Outside groups supporting Republican candidates in House and Senate races across the country have been swamping their Democratic-leaning counterparts on television since early August as the midterm election season has begun heating up. Driving the disparity in the ad wars has been an array of Republican-oriented organizations that are set up so they can accept donations of unlimited size from individuals and corporations without having to disclose them. The situation raises the possibility that a relatively small cadre of deep-pocketed donors, unknown to the general public, is shaping the battle for Congress in the early going. See Ads / A5

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