So long, Cuckoo's Nest


	So long, Cuckoo's Nest

reddogiedog

7-16-2008 7:05 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a94c3f4b-c49f-4dc4-a5b7-013a229034d6/400C5CEC-16DE-44E1-910E-01044E636B25/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jul/16/top-briefs-63751408/?page=2" href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jul/16/top-briefs-63751408/?page=2" style="font-size: 11px;">www.washingtontimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jul/16/top-briefs-63751408/?page=2"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.washingtontimes.com/img/81ACBDB2-75EF-4DA1-BD44-A42E3470D709" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jul/16/top-briefs-63751408/?page=2"><P>ASSOCIATED PRESS Oregon State Hospital, where "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" was filmed, is making way for a new ...</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jul/16/top-briefs-63751408/?page=2">'Cuckoo's Nest' hospital to be torn down </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jul/16/top-briefs-63751408/?page=2">
<P><A title="Oregon State Hospital" 
href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/themes/?Theme=Oregon+State+Hospital">Oregon State Hospital</A>, the 
mental institution where the 1975 movie "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" was 
filmed, is making way for a new complex. Most of the dilapidated, 125-year-old 
main building will be torn down and replaced starting this fall. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jul/16/top-briefs-63751408/?page=2">Although mean Nurse Ratched was pure fiction, the Oregon State Hospital has 
struggled with some very real troubles over the years, including overcrowding, 
crumbling floors and ceilings, outbreaks of scabies and stomach flu, sexual 
abuse of children by staff members and patient-on-patient assaults</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jul/16/top-briefs-63751408/?page=2"><P>Politicians had been talking for years about the need to replace the hospital, but didn't get serious about it until a group of legislators made a grim discovery during a 2004 tour: the cremated remains of 3,600 mental patients in corroding copper canisters in a storage room. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/400C5CEC-16DE-44E1-910E-01044E636B25/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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