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1 Public power: San Francis-

Movies
1 Jett stream: Kristen Stew-

Gaza militants into Israel kills a worker — and Israel fires back at six targets.
A4 1 IED attacks soar: Afghan Taliban fighters more than doubled the use of homemade
bombs last year. A6

co and a group of governmentowned utilities from around California want Proposition
16, the PG&E-backed initiative, removed from June’s ballot. C1
Winslow Townson / Associated Press

Business
1 Marketing juggernaut: Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao has crossover appeal. D1 1
Split personality: Viacom

Sporting Green
1 Gaels gallop: St. Mary’s and Omar Samhan, above, down Richmond in the NCAA Tournament’s
first round. B1 1 McCloughan leaving: The

1 A new Divisadero: Once plagued by crime and urban blight, the Divisadero is a hip,
multiracial, multiethnic neighborhood with a really nice, um, median strip. C1 1
One hurdle cleared: Devel-

art, left, and Dakota Fanning star in “The Runaways,” a smart biopic about the
rock band. E1 1 Call off the hunt: ”The Bounty Hunter,” with Jennifer Aniston
is better off locked up in the vault. E1

Datebook
1 An apt app: There’s a new app out there called Grindr that’s for gay men looking
to meet someone new. F1 1 Good break: AMC series

asked YouTube to stop “stealing” its content even as it was posting clips to
the site. D1

49ers plan to dismiss general manager Scot McCloughan. B1

opers win the first round in a fight to build a 430-foot condominium tower near the
Transamerica Pyramid. C1
David Moir / Associated Press

“Breaking Bad” kicks off its third season in fine fashion. F1

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Health care bill support growing
Budget office backs claim that measure cuts deficit
Photos by Michael Macor / The Chronicle

By Carolyn Lochhead
C H RO NI C L E WA SH I N GT O N B URE AU

A Feb. 18 letter from her pension plan asks for confirmation about Doris Temple’s
supposed death.

BUREAUCRATIC BURIAL

Living proof that she’s alive
By Demian Bulwa
C H RON IC L E STA FF W R I TE R

A very-much-alive Doris Temple is recovering from a lung flareup at the Ygnacio Valley
Care Center in Walnut Creek.

Being dead can be a real drag, especially if you’re alive. Just ask Doris Temple,
85, a Navy veteran who learned in January that the government had declared her deceased.
Strongly suspecting an error, she protested, but not before she lost her health insurance
and thousands of dollars in income — Social Security benefits as well as private
insurance and pension payments. All the while, she got letters addressed to “the
estate of Doris Temple,” some of which included condolences. And when she tried
to rent a Walnut Creek apartment last month, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. wouldn’t
hook up her utilities beNot dead continues on A13

WASHINGTON — Declaring “I love numbers,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi secured
the critical imprimatur of the Congressional Budget Office on Thursday as she pulled
Democrats in line for a momentous vote this weekend on a $940 billion overhaul of
the nation’s health care system. President Obama, who has been personally lobbying
fence-sitters, postponed his trip to Australia and Indonesia for a down-to-the wire
vote, set for Sunday, on sweeping legislation that has been more than a year in the
making and has drained his political capital. Despite the complicated parliamentary
maneuvering that will be required to get the
Health care continues on A12

Speaker Nancy Pelosi is on the brink of victory in the fight over health care reform.
1 Bill’s details: A description of the changes made to the Senate bill and presented
by the House Thursday. A12

MEDICINE

Year passes, pain remains in Oakland police tragedy
I remember March 21, 2009. It was a sunny Saturday under a clear blue sky scrubbed
clean by winter rains. Spring was in full bloom. Shortly after 1 p.m., all hell broke
loose. In what began as a traffic stop, Oakland police Officer John Hege and Sgt.
Mark Dunakin were fatally shot on MacArthur Boulevard when motorist Lovelle Mixon
emerged from his vehicle and opened fire. About two hours later, Mixon, now hiding
in a building and armed with an assault

Rates of disease differ among groups of Asians
By Erin Allday
C H RO NI C L E STA F F WRI T E R

CHIP JOHNSON
On the East Bay

rifle, killed Oakland police Sgts. Daniel Sakai and Ervin Romans when their SWAT
team entered the apartment. The first anniversary marking the slayings of the four
police officers will be a low-key event in Oakland, but many Bay Area residents,
in some manner or other, will recall in
Johnson continues on A12

Michael Macor / The Chronicle 2009

An Oakland honor guard stands next to four slain officers’ caskets at last March’s
service.

Scientists for decades have lumped Asians into one homogenous group when studying
conditions like breast cancer and heart disease, leading to false conclusions that
don’t take into account the health disparities among different nationalities, researchers
now say. In fact, subgroups of Asians and Pacific Islanders can face dramatically
different risks for developing certain diseases. One recent study found that Hmong
adults in California have rates of liver and cervical cancer three to four times
higher than those of other Asians and Pacific Islanders, for example. And communities
often vary wildly when it
Asians continues on A12

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