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However, ODOT arranges effort to improve sightlines By Hillary Borrud The Bulletin
Overgrown brush on the Bend Parkway did not contribute to the crash that killed a 55-year-old bicyclist at a crosswalk in October, officials at Oregon’s transportation agency and the Bend Police Department said Tuesday. But Oregon Department of Transportation officials said brush on the parkway has been allowed to grow too high, and they organized an effort to cut it earlier this month. Robert Hunt, 55, was killed on Oct. 9, when a driver hit him as he crossed the Bend Parkway at the Reed Lane crosswalk. Cars in one lane had stopped, but Hunt and his 14-year-old daughter, Chelsea Hunt, were both struck by a car in the other lane, as they were crossing the parkway on their bicycles. Chelsea Hunt sustained non-life-threatening injuries, according to the Bend Police Department. It was suggested that brush obstructing visibility might have contributed to the crash. Sgt. Chris Carney of the Bend Police Department said the police have concluded their investigation into the crash and forwarded their report to the Deschutes County District Attorney’s Office. See Parkway / A5
By David Sanger and Mark Mcdonald New York Times News Service
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s top national security aides met Tuesday to develop a response to North Korea’s deadly shelling of a South Korean military installation as the United States struggled Inside for the sec• Attack ond time this leaves China year to keep a puzzled, North Korean Page A3 provocation • Tension high from escalating into war. in S. Korea, O b a m a , Page A3 who attended the end of the emergency session after a trip to a Chrysler plant, was expected to call South Korea’s president, Lee Myung-bak, to express U.S. solidarity and talk about a coordinated response. That response is likely to start with pressing China, which has sought to maintain its influence with the North during what could be a struggle over leadership succession. But as the State Department’s lead negotiator with the North, Sung Kim, said just a few hours before the attack began, “North Korea is the land of lousy options.” See N. Korea / A5
Protein removal could be utilized to erase traumatic memories By Meredith Cohn The Baltimore Sun
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Rocks are visible in the Deschutes River upstream of Farewell Bend Park, as water managers are releasing a minimal amount of water in the Upper Deschutes, in order to store more in Wickiup Reservoir.
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BALTIMORE — Soldiers haunted by scenes of war and crime victims scarred by violence may wish they could wipe the memories from their minds. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University say that may someday be possible. A commercial drug remains far off — and its use would be subject to many ethical and practical questions. But scientists have laid a foundation with their discovery that proteins can be removed from the brain’s fear center to erase memories forever. “When a traumatic event occurs, it creates a fearful memory that can last a lifetime and have a debilitating effect on a person’s life,” says Richard Huganir, professor and chair of neuroscience in the Hopkins School of Medicine. He said his finding on the molecular process “raises the possibility of manipulating those mechanisms with drugs to enhance behavioral therapy for such conditions as post-traumatic stress disorder.” See Memories / A4
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Rocks and logs appeared in stretches of the Upper Deschutes River, and Mirror Pond started looking more like a mud flat, as water managers have dialed down the flow of the river for the winter.
Flows are at some of the lowest levels in years below Wickiup Dam because managers attempt to save up as much as possible in Wickiup Reservoir and Crane Prairie Reservoir in preparation for next summer’s irrigation season. “The outflow out of Wickiup is cut
back to the minimum. ... We were not confident that we could fill both those reservoirs by releasing more than the minimum,” said Kyle Gorman, region manager for the South Central region of the Oregon Water Resources Department. See River / A5
Vet barred from campus for essay on killing By Childs Walker The Baltimore Sun
BALTIMORE — By writing the paper, Charles Whittington thought he would confront the anxieties that had tormented him since he returned from war. He knew it wasn’t normal to dwell on the pleasure of sticking his
knife between an enemy sol- Inside dier’s ribs. But • Whittington’s by recording his essay, Page A4 words, maybe he’d begin to purge the fixation. So Whittington, an Iraq veteran, submitted an essay on the allure of
combat for his English class at the Community College of Baltimore County in Catonsville, Md. He called war a drug and wrote that killing “is something that I do not just want but something I really need so I can feel like myself.” See Essay / A4
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Postdoctoral candidate Roger Clem Ph.D., left, and Richard Huganir Ph.D., chair of the Neuroscience Department at Johns Hopkins University Medical Schools, are pictured Nov. 18.