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* * * * * * WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2014 ~ VOL. CCLXIII NO. 12 WSJ.com HHHH $2 .00
past seven months, is traveling toevery corner of the country: westinto Washington state and thensouth to refineries near Los An-geles; south to Gulf Coast refin-ers; north into Canada; and eastto refineries in New Jersey andPhiladelphia.
Railroads and oil shipperswouldn’t detail oil-train move-ments through their networks,citing security concerns. The WallStreet Journal identified routesthrough investor presentationsand industry marketing material,as well as interviews with indus-try officials and experts.
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there are trying to get up tospeed on how to handle a poten-tial oil-train accident, as are theirpeers from Chicago to Denver toNew Orleans.
Railroad officials don’t like totalk about it, but oil trains arerumbling through many large cit-ies because of surging outputfrom North Dakota’s Bakkenshale. Functioning as pipelines onrails, tanker cars full of oil passthrough Detroit, Philadelphia, To-ronto, St. Louis, Kansas City andHouston, among others.
Bakken crude, which has beeninvolved in three major explo-sions after rail accidents in the
Every day, a train more than amile long travels alongside ahighway in Albany, N.Y., a halfmile from the state capitol build-ing and even closer to houses. Itscargo is crude oil from North Da-kota, which federal regulatorsand railroads fear is more explo-sive than other oils.
In the past year, Albany hasbecome an unlikely hub for theU.S. oil business, taking in ship-ments by rail and sending themout by ship down the HudsonRiver to refineries. Now officials
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World-Widen European spy agencies se-cretly met with Assad’s dele-gates to share information onEuropean extremists operat-ing in Syria, officials said. A1n Egyptians voted on a newconstitution in a referendumon the military-backed gov-ernment’s rule. Election vio-lence left at least 11 dead. A7n Four Hezbollah memberswill go on trial Thursdayover their alleged involve-ment in a former Lebanesepremier’s 2005 killing. A8n The U.S. issued a rebukeafter Israel’s defense minis-ter was quoted criticizingKerry over his pursuit of aMideast peace accord. A8n Efforts at a bipartisan dealto extend jobless benefits forthe long-term unemployedcollapsed in the Senate. A6nWhite House aides craftingthe State of the Union addressare meeting resistance fromcongressional Democrats overthe free-trade issue. A4n Oklahoma’s ban on gaymarriage was struck downby a federal judge, who ruledit was unconstitutional. A3nNew Jersey Gov. Christiesought to strike a bipartisantone in his state of the stateaddress in thewake of a scandalover bridge-lane closures. A3nA judge declined to endorsethe NFL’s $764 million concus-sion settlement with retiredplayers, questioning whetherthe sumwas sufficient. A3n Police said a Danish touristwas gang-raped in NewDelhi, the latest in a series ofsuch attacks in India. A12
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An appeals court threw outFCC rules requiring broad-
band providers to treat all In-ternet traffic equally, clearingthe way for new fees. A1nWells Fargo’s earnings rose16% to $21.8 billion last year,making it the top annual profitmaker among U.S. banks. J.P.Morgan dropped to No. 2. C1nApple’s dealwith China Mo-bile to sell iPhones won’t belimited to handsets but willentail broader cooperation, thecarrier’s chairman said. B1nRetail sales rose at a steadypace in December, suggesting astrengthening U.S. economy.A2n The Dow surged 115.92 to16373.86 on the data to snapa four-day losing streak. C4n A doctor testified that hegave an SAC manager confi-dential drug-trial results. C1nGM plans to resume payinga dividend after posting a 4%rise in global sales volume. B6n JAL reported a batterymalfunction on a Boeing 787parked at a Tokyo airport. B2nNasdaq plans to stop runninga central part of the U.S. tradingsystem that failed last year. C3n Regulators agreed to letbanks retain certain CDOsunder the Volcker rule. C3nThe Supreme Court threwout a suit alleging rights abusesby Daimler in Argentina. B3nBeanie Babies’ creatorwassentenced to probation for hid-ing funds in Swiss accounts. B3nViacom plans to launch achildren’s TV channel that canbe programmed by parents. B1
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Cities Grapple With Oil-Train Safety
WASHINGTON—A U.S. appealscourt on Tuesday threw out fed-eral rules requiring broadbandproviders to treat all Internettraffic equally, raising the pros-pect that bandwidth-hungrywebsites like Netflix Inc. mighthave to pay tolls to ensure qual-ity service.
The ruling was a blow to theObama administration, which haspushed the idea of “net neutral-ity.” And it sharpened the struggleby the nation’s big entertainmentand telecommunications compa-nies to shape the regulation ofbroadband, now a vital pipelinefor tens of millions of Americansto view video and other media.
For consumers, the rulingcould usher in an era of tieredInternet service, in which theyget some content at full speedwhile other websites appear
slower because their ownerschose not to pay up.
“It takes the Internet intocompletely uncharted territory,”said Tim Wu, a Columbia Univer-sity law professor who coinedthe term net neutrality.
Adopted in 2010, the FederalCommunications Commissionrules said that companies likeVerizon Communications Inc.and Comcast Corp. had to treatall similar content on their net-works equally, whether it was aYouTube video or a home videoposted on a personal website.
Deciding a lawsuit brought byVerizon, a three-judge panel of theU.S. Court of Appeals for the Dis-trict of Columbia Circuit struckdown the rules. The court said theFCC saddled broadband providerswith the same sorts of obligationsas traditional “common carrier”telecommunications services, suchas landline phone systems, even
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BY GAUTHAM NAGESHAND AMOL SHARMA
Court TossesRules of RoadFor InternetFederal Regulations on ‘Net Neutrality’Are Voided, Clearing Way for New Fees
RIVERSIDE, Calif.—Deborah Clark said a voicenamed Dora told her to burn books in a hall closet.She lighted them while her elderly, ailing parentsslept and then walked to the store to buy dog food.
Smoke from the fire in April 2012 killed both ofthem, the local coroner ruled. Prosecutors chargedMs. Clark with arson and murder. The 49-year-oldwoman is in protective custody in a RiversideCounty jail, awaiting a court hearing Thursday onwhether she is competent to go on trial.
When her siblings visit, she asks if she can gohome. Ms. Clark says she misses her mother and fa-ther and dreams about them almost every night.
Ms. Clark has schizophrenia and an IQ of 63. Thevoices she hears are a symptom of her mental ill-ness, and her childlike mental functioning is a devel-opmental disability. While her case ended in extremetragedy, it spotlights the huge challenges facing anestimated 1.5 million people in the U.S. who suffer
from a debilitating combination of mental illness anddevelopmental disability.
For most of her life, Ms. Clark bounced around afragmented treatment and support system that lefther and family members who tried to help mostly ontheir own, according to interviews with relatives anda review of some of her medical records.
In most states, including California, mental-healthtreatment is overseen by counties, while state offi-cials coordinate developmental-disability services.The splintered system makes it extremely hard tocoordinate treatment, and few professionals aretrained to even identify coexisting conditions.
Odd or aggressive behavior might be wrongly at-tributed to the developmental disability and thusdismissed as untreatable. Many serious mental ill-nesses can be treated through medication. Services,funded by different parts of government, cater toone problem or the other but rarely both.
“Each system points their finger at the other, andPleaseturntopageA14
BY CLARE ANSBERRY
VOICES IN HER HEAD
Splintered System Often FailsMentally Ill With Low IQs
BEIRUT—European intelli-gence agencies secretly metwith Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s delegates to share infor-mation on European extremistsoperating in Syria, Western andMiddle Eastern officials said,the first known encounters sincewithdrawing their ambassadors.
The meetings were intendedto gather information on at least1,200 European jihadists thatWestern officials say have joinedmilitant groups in Syria, amidEuropean concerns these citi-zens will pose a threat whenthey return home.
The talks are narrowly fo-cused on the extremists and onal Qaeda’s growing might inSyria and don’t represent abroader diplomatic opening, theWestern and Middle Eastern of-ficials and diplomats said.
But Mr. Assad’s opponents inSyria and in Istanbul, where thepolitical opposition is based,said they are concerned that theinformation sharing suggestsWestern capitals are starting to
accept the possibility the Syrianleader will retain power for theforeseeable future.
Opposition members also areconcerned the contacts—coupledwith an international effort un-der way to remove Syria’s chem-ical arms—could grow intowider cooperation in fightingterror groups in Syria.
That could bolster Mr. As-sad’s argument that his leader-ship is needed to fight al Qaeda,which has gained Syrian terri-tory in recent months.
“We worry that these prelimi-nary discussions could lead tobroader cooperation,” said aSyrian opposition member in Is-tanbul.
A retired official from MI6,the British foreign intelligencearm, was the first to visit Da-mascus in midsummer on behalfof the British government, twopeople said. German, French andSpanish intelligence agencieshave been speaking to regime
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BY MARIA ABI-HABIB
European SpiesReachOut to Syria
Egyptians Cast Votes on New Constitution
ONE VOTE: Coptic Pope Tawadros II displays an ink-stained finger after voting Tuesday in a referendum ona new constitution supported by Egypt’s military-backed government. Two days of voting, coming six monthsafter the ouster of President Mohammed Morsi, are being held amid political tension and violence. A7
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JEJU, South Korea—On pic-turesque Jeju island, visitors canhike through tangerine orchardsto a dormant volcano, watchwomen dive for shellfish or, if itstrikes their fancy, take in theWorld Eros Museum.
It’s one of Jeju’s three sexmuseums. Fromthere, visitors canvisit two chocolatemuseums, threeteddy-bear muse-ums and, by onecount, seven muse-ums that special-ize in “trick art,”images that letpeople pose as ifthey are stuck in ashark’s mouth orhaving a drink with five scantilyclad women.
There are more than 100 mu-seums on this island about halfthe size of Rhode Island, most ofwhich opened in the past fewyears. The new competition hasset off feuds among museum
owners who accuse each other ofcopycatting, running lame muse-ums and cutting deals with touroperators to bring in busloads offree-spending Chinese tourists.
Recently the owner of theLoveland Museum, one of thesex museums, accused the SecretGarden Museum across thestreet of changing its exhibitions
from glass to sex.“About 90% oftheir exhibitionhad a sexualtheme,” said LeeSung-hyung, gen-eral officer atLoveland Museum,a collection of tit-illating sculpturesand exhibits. “Weraised the issue tothe province,” he
says. “They removed exhibitsthat were problematic.” SecretGarden management couldn’t bereached for comment.
Jeju sits off the southern tipof South Korea in the sea be-tween China, 300 miles away,
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BY ALEX FRANGOS
Korean Island’s Battle of MuseumsIsn’t Exactly a Culture War
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A train carrying crude oil collided with another train and caught fire on Dec. 30 near Casselton, N.D.
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