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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2014
© 2014 WST
Ebola case
puts focus
on hospital
An error in protocol
in caring for patient
who died may mean
more were exposed,
CDC chief says.
By Molly
Hennessy-Fiske
and Tina Susman
Rich Pedroncelli Associated Press
GOV. JERRY BROWN and Neel Kashkari meet in their only debate Sept. 4 in Sacramento. Kashkari has
ridiculed Brown for being born into power, while Brown has criticized his rival’s work on Wall Street.
RAGGING ON EACH
OTHER’S RICHES
‘There’s just the
absurdity and
the hypocrisy
of this
Wall Street
multimillionaire
who’s throwing
stones from
inside his …
beach house.’
By Michael Finnegan
Neel Kashkari is unsparing in his portrayal of Jerry
Brown as an out-of-touch governor who inherited millions of dollars from his father, who was also a California
governor.
“He’s been handed everything … on a silver platter,”
Brown’s Republican challenger told a radio audience recently. “I look at Jerry Brown as daddy’s little boy.”
The Democratic governor is equally merciless. His
campaign mocks Kashkari for renting a house on the Laguna Beach oceanfront — last advertised at $15,000 a
month — while lamenting the plight of the poor. In their
sole debate, Brown ridiculed his rival’s career path from
investment banking at Goldman Sachs to leadership of
the federal bailout of Wall Street.
“It’s kind of like the arsonist putting out the fire,”
Brown quipped.
The exchanges show the enduring potency of a “Wall
Street scoundrel” attack in politics — and the trouble that
a banker seeking public office can face even six years after
the global economic meltdown. For a year, Brown’s reelection team has used Kashkari’s riches as a weapon to impugn the first-time candi[See Campaign, A11]
— D AN N EWMAN
Gov. Jerry Brown’s
campaign spokesman
‘I grew up
middle-class,
mowing lawns
and bagging
groceries.…
(Gov. Brown) is
completely out
of touch with
the struggles of
working
families.’
— N EEL K ASHKARI
in a recent radio interview
DALLAS — The misstep
that allowed a Texas nurse
to contract Ebola while
treating a patient may have
exposed others to the virus,
the nation’s leading healthcare official said Monday as
experts stepped up scrutiny
of medical workers at the
hospital where the breach
occurred.
The second case of Ebola
diagnosed in this country
came after American officials had insisted for weeks
there was a minuscule
chance of the virus penetrating the U.S. healthcare system. The case raised questions on several fronts: the
preparedness of medical facilities to handle Ebola patients properly; the funding
available for hospitals to
ready themselves for pandemics; the policy of allowing people from the hardesthit African nations to enter
the United States.
In Dallas, officials were
even faced with how to handle the ill nurse’s pet dog.
Texas Health Commissioner David Lakey said officials had decontaminated
the patient’s apartment and
were looking for a location
that would allow “proper
monitoring” of the dog, a 1year-old King Charles spaniel she referred to online as
Bentley.
“One and only one” person is known to have had direct contact with the nurse,
Nina Pham, said Thomas
THE ABORTION WARS
Doctor goes
to great lengths
to do her work
By Maria L. La Ganga
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. —
Dr. Carol Ball was twothirds of the way through
her morning commute when
she heard the news.
The first leg of her journey, a scooter ride to the
Twin Cities airport, had
been uneventful. Not so for
the second leg — a 200-mile
flight to Sioux Falls — as the
U.S. Supreme Court struck
down a Massachusetts law
keeping protesters at least
35 feet from abortion clinics.
The loss of any kind of
protection is a blow in Ball’s
line of work, and the Massachusetts case had been
widely watched. But the ruling will have no direct effect
on the doctor in running
shoes and khakis who performs abortions far from
home.
Because losing protection means you have some to
begin with.
“We don’t have a buffer
zone,” Ball, 62, said, as she
got off the plane. “We wanted
one, talked for years about
trying to get one.”
Several
times
every
month, Ball jets into South
Dakota to perform abortions at the only clinic in the
Mt. Rushmore State — a
Planned Parenthood facility
that for the last decade has
been unable to find a local
doctor willing to perform the
procedure.
During that time, South
Dakota legislators passed
some of the most restrictive
laws in America governing
women’s access to the procedure, including a 72-hour
waiting period that does not
[See Abortion, A10]
Mel Melcon Los Angeles Times
CAMERON WEISS, who dropped out of USC to make watches, works in his
Beverly Hills apartment. Each watch is made up of about 150 components.
COLUMN ONE
Time is money for an
old-school watchmaker
Cameron Weiss
produces mechnical
timepieces that sell
for $950 a pop.
By Daniel Miller
A
Katie Falkenberg Los Angeles Times
DR. CAROL BALL prepares to see one of 17 patients
who had abortions in one day at Planned Parenthood
in Sioux Falls, the only such clinic in South Dakota.
fter hand-finishing
the stainless-steel
case of one of his
timepieces in a
whirring industrial polisher,
watchmaker Cameron
Weiss carefully submerged it
in an ultrasonic cleaning
tank.
When all of the impurities had been blasted off the
case, Weiss removed it from
the machine — and knocked
his head on a frying pan
suspended from a hanging
pot rack.
His cramped kitchen
filled with a shrill metal
clang.
These aren’t the tradition-bound halls of a Swiss
watchmaking facility, and
Weiss doesn’t have a graying
beard, continental accent
and loupe affixed to his eye.
His floppy hair, stubbled
jaw and surfer’s cadence
seem more frat boy than
fussy craftsman. But for the
last year, the 27-year-old
USC dropout has been
producing the only mechanical timepiece with “Los
Angeles” on its dial (a detail
not every watch enthusiast
appreciates).
And he’s doing it from his
modest one-bedroom Beverly Hills apartment, where
the dining room table has
given way to a workbench
and the espresso machine
shares kitchen countertop
space with the tools of
Weiss’ decidedly anachronistic trade.
The San Diego native
has entered a business that
clings to conventions upheld by old-school firms like
Rolex and Patek Philippe,
whose hand-assembled
timepieces are coveted for
their intricacy and beauty.
And now this upstart says
he’s trying to restore American watchmaking to a place
of prominence?
Weiss’ love for horology
— the science of measuring
time — runs deep. When he
was 4, he tried to fix his
brother’s broken Swatch.
[See Weiss, A8]
Frieden, director of the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention. Neither
that person, who is being
monitored, nor the dog has
shown symptoms of illness.
But Frieden said a “large
number” of medical workers
who worked with Pham
while she was treating a Liberian man for Ebola could
have been exposed to the
deadly virus if they were affected by the same protocol
breach that led to her illness.
Pham became sick after
treating Thomas Eric Duncan, who was hospitalized at
Texas Health Presbyterian
Hospital in Dallas on Sept.
28. He died Wednesday.
[See Ebola, A9]
Hong
Kong
parents
sit out
protests
Many older residents
who saw Tiananmen
tragedy unfold don’t
believe their children
can sway China.
By David Pierson
HONG KONG — Every
time Kelvin Chan returns
home around midnight from
the daily pro-democracy rallies here, he finds his father
fuming silently in the living
room.
“He says nothing when I
come in,” said Chan, 23. “He
just gets up and goes to his
bedroom.”
When Chan tries to
broach the subject of freer
elections, the patriarch is intractable, convinced his son
is jeopardizing the young
man’s future and meddling
futilely in Chinese politics.
“It’s tearing apart our relationship,” the recent college graduate said.
Like many young protesters who have taken to
the streets, Chan is struggling to bridge a generational divide freshly exposed
by more than two weeks of
polarizing demonstrations.
On one side are students
and recent graduates whose
democratic aspirations are
seasoned by the growing
competition for university
placements, jobs and evermore expensive apartments
because of the influx of
mainland Chinese.
On the other side are parents, often pragmatic firstor second-generation immigrants from the mainland
who prize stability above all
and see little hope, let alone
use, in challenging Beijing’s
authoritarian rule.
“This group in their late
40s or 50s witnessed the
[See Hong Kong, A4]
Oil price plunge
hits Iran, Russia
The decline is bringing
growing political and
economic pressure on
the leaders of both
countries. WORLD, A5
Weather
Cooling trend begins.
L.A. Basin: 77/63. AA6
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