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With the magnificent winter face of Mount Rainier as a backdrop, birds take flight at dusk above bare trees Tuesday near Emerald DownsThoroughbred racetrack in Auburn. The mountain is expected to receive a new coat of snow this weekend as a cold front from the Gulf ofAlaska arrives. Whether there will be snow in the lowlands is still a guessing game, said National Weather Service meteorologist DennisD’Amico. Summing up the uncertainty, he said, “There’s a possibility for lowland snow, though we don’t quite know when or where.” Mean-while, there’s always the view.

The calm before the snow?

BY JIM BRUNNERSeattle Times political reporter

Ever since taking office in 2005,Republican Congressman DaveReichert has felt the partisan bull’s-eye on his back.

Democrats have vigorously tar-geted him in every election, believ-ing his swing 8th CongressionalDistrict was trending their way.

No more.Reichert was one of the clear

winners of thestate’s latest con-gressional redis-tricting. In the re-drawn politicalmap, the 8th Dis-trict sheds itsBellevue-area sub-urban core,morphing into amore rural andpresumably safeRepublican seat.As the electionyear begins,Reichert, for the first time, faces nomajor Democratic challenger.

“Usually in January we’re al-ready being ripped apart. This isthe first year we haven’t been at-tacked,” he said.

Instead, Reichert faces an in-triguing new choice. He could runfor U.S. Senate against Democrat

THE NEW8TH DISTRICT:‘A BRIDGEACROSSTHE STATE’MAP KNITS WEST, EAST SIDE

Republican Reichert favoredas district shifts from

suburban to more rural

U.S. Rep.DaveReichert

For new district map > A7

See > NEW DISTRICT, A7

freeway, trying to alertthe driver that she washeading toward potentialdisaster. Others tried todeploy spike strips, butwere initially unsuccessful“because the driver wasall over the place, using allthe lanes,” said TrooperGuy Gill.

Cars in the southboundlanes flashed their highbeams at the oncomingcar, trying to warn thedriver. Some narrowlyavoided head-on colli-sions.

Finally, after the wrong-way driver covered nearly

BY CHRISTINE CLARRIDGESeattle Times staff reporter

It was a tragedy waitingto happen unless theycould stop it.

The State Patrol troop-ers tried their sirens, spot-lights and even the PA sys-tem on their patrol cars,but nothing seemed tocapture the attention ofthe driver who was ca-reening north on Inter-state 5 in the wrong direc-tion early Wednesdaymorning.

One trooper racedalongside the car, on thenorthbound lanes of the

18 miles at speeds up to100 mph, troopers wereable to stop the white Lin-coln LS by using spikestrips to flatten the tires.

By then, the driver,identified as PamelaDrawsby, 60, of Olympia,had traveled from Tum-water to the freeway exitnear the main gate atJoint Base Lewis-McChord.

Drawsby was arrestedand booked into PierceCounty Jail. She wascharged later in the day inThurston County District

A race to avert death on I-5Wrong way on I-5

A woman was arrested early Wednesday after driving north for 18 miles in the southbound lanes of Interstate 5. No one was hurt.

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WRONG-WAY DRIVER SPEEDS 18 MILES BEFORE FRANTIC TROOPERS SUCCEED IN STOPPING HER

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BY THOMAS ERDBRINKAND JOBY WARRICKThe Washington Post

TEHRAN, Iran – A scientistlinked to Iran’s nuclear programwas assassinated in his car by abomb-wielding assailant Wednes-day, an attack that experts saidpoints to a further escalation in acovert campaign targeting thecountry’s nuclear officials and insti-tutions.

The precision strike in a northernTehran neighborhood killed Mosta-fa Ahmadi Roshan, 32, a chemicalengineer employed at Iran’s mainuranium-enrichment facility. Noone claimed responsibility for theslaying.

Iranian officials immediately ac-cused the United States and Israelof orchestrating the attack on Rosh-an, who was killed along with hisbodyguard when an assailant on amotorcycle slapped a magneticbomb on his Peugeot 405 as hecommuted to work, according toIranian news reports. An 85-year-old passer-by also was wounded.

Roshan was at least the fifth sci-entist with nuclear connections tobe slain since 2007; a sixth scien-tist, Fereidoun Abbasi, survived a2010 attack and was put in charge

AnotherIran nukeofficialis killed

See > IRAN, A5

BY HAL BERNTONSeattle Times staff reporter

When Haiti’s earthquake hit, Ra-chel Prusynski was visiting herfriend, Molly Hightower of Port Or-chard, who was doing volunteerwork with orphans and special-needs children.

Hightower, 22, died, trapped byrubble. Prusynski, on a higher floorof the collapsed building, was res-cued, a survivor of the epic disasterthat slammed Haiti two years agoThursday.

“I remember being buried, then Iremember not being buried,” Pru-synski recalls. “It’s the in-betweenthat was fuzzy.”

Prusynski, now 24, is a graduatestudent in physical therapy at the

University of Puget Sound. She hastwice returned to the earthquakezone as a hospital volunteer withthe Latin American affiliate ofFriends of the Orphans, and she’shelped raise funds for the organiza-tion back in the Northwest.

“I’ve had many well-intentionedpeople wish me closure, peace andhealing,” Prusynski wrote in a blogpost. “But I do hope that peopledon’t consider my attention andpassion for Haiti as something thatneeds to be cured or fixed. ...

“Sometimes I resent Haiti forbringing an unexpected path to mylife, for taking Molly, and making itdifficult for me to relate as easily toothers. ... But sometimes I am also

Two years ago, the Haiti earthquake killed the friend Rachel Prusynski was visiting. But the localcollege student returns to volunteer, and she’s grateful for the new conviction and passion in her life.

Shaken, then shaped by Haiti quake

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Rachel Prusynski, left, is seen with her friend Molly High-tower, who died in the Haiti quake on Jan. 12, 2010.See > HAITI, A3