B R U S S E L S(AP) -- The UnitedStates has senttroops to Jordan tobolster its militarycapabilities in theevent Syria's civilwar escalates,U.S. DefenseSecretary LeonPanetta saidW e d n e s d a y ,reflecting U.S.concerns aboutthe conflict spillingover allies' borders and about the security ofSyria's chemical weapons arsenal.

Speaking at a NATO conference of defenseministers, Panetta said the U.S. has been workingwith Jordan to monitor chemical and biologicalweapons sites in Syria and also to help Jordandeal with refugees pouring over the border fromSyria.

About 150 U.S. troops, largely Army specialoperations forces, are working out of a militarycenter near Amman, two senior defense officialssaid on condition of anonymity because they werenot authorized to speak publicly about the mis-sion. The troops have moved back and forth to theSyrian border as part of their work, which is jointplanning and intelligence gathering, one officialsaid.

The revelation of U.S. military personnel soclose to the 19-month-old Syrian conflict suggestsan escalation in the U.S. involvement in the con-flict, even as the Obama administration pushesback on any suggestion of a direct intervention inSyria.

News of the U.S. mission to Jordan also fol-lows several days of shelling between Turkey andSyria, an indication that the civil war couldbecome a regional conflict. One of the U.S.defense officials said the extra planning is aimedat avoiding those kinds of clashes betweenJordan and Syria.

The development comes with the U.S. presi-dential election less than a month away, asRepublican nominee Mitt Romney criticizesPresident Barack Obama for weak leadership inforeign policy. Romney has said he would sendU.S. troops into Syria if needed to prevent thespread of chemical weapons, while Obama hassaid that movement or use of chemical weaponswould have "enormous consequences."

Panetta has said that while the U.S. believesthe weapons are still secure, intelligence sug-gests the regime might have moved some to pro-tect them.

Syria is believed to have one of the world'slargest chemical weapons programs, and theAssad regime has said it might use the weaponsagainst external threats, though not againstSyrians. The U.S. and Jordan share the sameconcern about Syria's chemical and biologicalweapons - that they could fall into the wrong

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hands should theregime in Syriacollapse and losecontrol of them.

Jordan's KingAbdullah II fearssuch weaponscould go to the al-Qaida terror net-work or other mili-tants, primarily theI r a n i a n - a l l i e dL e b a n e s eHezbollah - avocal critic of

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The Monterey, Calif.-based James MartinCenter for Nonproliferation Studies provided amap purporting to show four Syrian productionsites for chemical weapons, three for storage, onefor research and development, and two with dualuse infrastructure.

Steven Bucci, an expert in chemical weaponsat the Heritage Foundation, has told Congressthere might be as many as 50 chemical weaponssites. He said in an interview Wednesday thatSyria's stockpile is potentially "like a gift from God"for militants since they don't have the know-howto assemble such weapons, while some of Syria'schemical agents are believed to have alreadybeen fitted into missile warheads.

Pentagon press secretary George Little, trav-eling with Panetta, said the U.S. and Jordanagreed that "increased cooperation and moredetailed planning are necessary in order torespond to the severe consequences of the Assadregime's brutality."

He said the U.S. has provided medical kits,water tanks and other forms of humanitarian aid tohelp Jordanians assist Syrian refugees fleeinginto their country.

"We have a group of our forces there workingto help build a headquarters there and to insurethat we make the relationship between the UnitedStates and Jordan a strong one so that we candeal with all the possible consequences of what'shappening in Syria," Panetta said.

In Jordan, the biggest problem at the momentseems to be the strain put on the country's mea-ger resources by the estimated 200,000 Syrianrefugees who have flooded across the border -the largest number fleeing to any country.

Several dozen refugees in Jordan rioted intheir desert border camp of Zaatari earlier thismonth, destroying tents and medicine and leavingscores of refugee families out in the night cold.

Jordanian men also are moving the other wayacross the border, joining what intelligence offi-cials have estimated to be around 2,000 foreign-ers fighting alongside Syrian rebels trying to top-ple Assad. A Jordanian border guard was wound-ed after armed men - believed trying to go fight -exchanged gunfire at the northern frontier.

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DENVER (AP) --

It's not all hippies back-

ing November's mari-

juana legalization votes

in Colorado, Oregon

and Washington.

Appealing to

Western individualism

and a mistrust of federal

government, activists

have lined up some

prominent conserva-

tives, from one-time

presidential hopefuls

Tom Tancredo and Ron

Paul to Republican-

turned-Libertarian pres-

idential candidate and

former New Mexico

Gov. Gary Johnson.

"This is truly a non-

partisan issue," said

Mark Slaugh, a volun-

teer for the Colorado

initiative who is based

in Colorado Springs,

which has more

Republicans than any-

where else in the state.

"States' rights! States' rights!" Slaugh cried as he hand-

ed out flyers about the state's pot measure outside a rally last

month by Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan.

Quite a few passing Republicans took the flyer.

"It's fiscally prudent. It would be taxed, regulated, mon-

itored. It makes a lot of sense to Republicans," he said.

Most Republicans still oppose legalization. Presidential

candidate Mitt Romney vows to enforce federal law. When

Ryan told a Colorado Springs TV station in September that

medical marijuana was "up to Coloradans to decide," his

campaign quickly backtracked and said he agreed with

Romney.

When activists make their appeal, it goes like this:

States should dictate drug law. Decades of federal prohibi-

tion have failed where personal responsibility and old-fash-

ioned parenting will succeed. Politicians back East have no

business dictating what the states do.

"What is the law against marijuana if it isn't the Nanny

State telling you what you can do and what you can't do to

your body and with your body?" asked Tancredo, a former

Republican congressman from suburban Denver who briefly

ran for president in 2008 and endorsed the measure on the

steps of the state capitol. He compared federal law to New

York City's ban on sugary sodas.

Tancredo launched a radio ad this week in which he

compares marijuana prohibition to alcohol prohibition as a

"failed government program" that, in this case, "steers

Colorado money to criminals in Mexico."

"Proponents

of big government

have duped us into

supporting a simi-

lar prohibition of

marijuana - even

though it can be

used safely and

responsibly by

adults," Tancredo

s a i d .

Pot supporters

have lined up other

surprising allies

this year, even as

many Democrats

oppose the meas-

ures. Conservative

stalwart Pat

Robertson, for

example, said mari-

juana should be

l e g a l .

In Washington

state, Republican

U.S. Senate hope-

ful Michael

Baumgartner is

running a longshot bid to unseat Democratic U.S. Sen. Maria

Cantwell, who opposes it.

"It's taking a different approach to a very expensive

drug war, and potentially a better approach," he said.

In Oregon, at least one Republican state Senate candi-

date backs legalization. Cliff Hutchison reasoned that legal-

izing pot would "cut wasteful government spending on cor-

rections and reduce drug gang violence."

Johnson, the Libertarian candidate, is fiscally conserva-

tive but supports such liberal causes as legalizing marijuana,

immigration reform and abortion rights. He's said that if

elected he would pardon all non-violent prisoners convicted

of marijuana-related offenses in federal court.

Pro-pot conservatives have counterparts on the other

side - Democrats who say pot shouldn't be legal without a

doctor's recommendation. Democratic governors in

Colorado and Washington oppose legalization. Oregon's

Democratic governor has not taken a stand.

President Barack Obama's administration has shut down

medical marijuana dispensaries in California and Colorado.

Republican Colorado state Sen. Steve King is a frequent

critic of Colorado's medical marijuana law. Conservatives

abhor government, but they also fear legalization would

increase children's drug use, he said. "It's pretty easy to come

in and say, `Let's decrease government.' And I'm all for that.

This just isn't the place to start," King said.

"We have a next generation to protect," he said.

In this Oct. 2, 2012 photo, former Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredospeaks out in favor supporting Amendment 64 to legalize marijuana inColorado during a news conference at the Capitol in Denver. JoeMegyesy coordinator for the campaign to regulate marijuana like alco-hol listens at left. Appealing to Western individualism and a mistrust offederal government, activists have lined up some prominent conserva-tives as natural allies to make pot legal, from one-time presidentialhopefuls Tom Tancredo and Ron Paul to Libertarian presidential candi-date and former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson.

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Turkey has reinforced its border with artilleryand deployed more fighter jets to an air baseclose to the border region after an errant Syrianmortar shell killed five people in a Turkish bordertown last week and Turkey retaliated with artillerystrikes.

Turkey's military chief, Gen. Necdet Ozel,vowed Wednesday to respond with more force toany further shelling from Syria, keeping up thepressure on its southern neighbor a day afterNATO said it stood ready to defend Turkey.

Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of theU.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in Washington onWednesday that the Pentagon was planning for "anumber of contingencies" and was prepared toprovide the administration with options on Syria, ifneeded.

"But the military instrument of power at thispoint is not the prominent instrument of power thatshould be applied in Syria," he said.

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The WhiteHouse has put special operationsstrike forces on standby and moveddrones into the skies above Africa,ready to strike militant targets fromLibya to Mali - if investigators canfind the al-Qaida-linked groupresponsible for the death of the U.S.ambassador and three otherAmericans in Libya.

But officials say the administration,with weeks until the presidentialelection, is weighing whether theshort-term payoff of exacting retribu-tion on al-Qaida is worth the riskthat such strikes could elevate thegroup's profile in the region, alienategovernments the U.S. needs to fightit in the future and do little to slowthe growing terror threat in NorthAfrica.

Details on the administration's position and on itssearch for a possible target were provided bythree current and one former administration offi-cial, as well as an analyst who was approachedby the White House for help. All four spoke oncondition of anonymity because they were notauthorized to discuss the high-level debates pub-licly.

The dilemma shows the tension of the WhiteHouse's need to demonstrate it is respondingforcefully to al-Qaida, balanced against its long-term plans to develop relationships and trust withlocal governments and build a permanent U.S.counterterrorist network in the region.

Vice President Joe Biden pledged in his debatelast week with Republican vice presidential nomi-nee Paul Ryan to find those responsible for theSept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate inBenghazi that killed Ambassador Chris Stevensand three others.

"We will find and bring to justice the men whodid this," Biden said in response to a questionabout whether intelligence failures led to laxsecurity around Stevens and the consulate.Referring back to the raid that killed Osama binLaden last year, Biden said American counterter-

ror policy should be, "if you do harm to America,we will track you to the gates of hell if need be."

The White House declined to comment on thedebate over how best to respond to theBenghazi attack.

The attack has become an issue in the U.S.election season, with Republicans accusing theObama administration of being slow to label theassault an act of terrorism early on, and slow tostrike back at those responsible.

"They are aiming for a small pop, a flash in thepan, so as to be able to say, `Hey, we're doingsomething about it,'" said retired Air Force Lt.Col. Rudy Attalah, the former Africa counterter-rorism director for the Department of Defenseunder President George W. Bush.

Attalah noted that in 1998, after the embassybombing in Nairobi, the Clinton administrationfired cruise missiles to take out a pharmaceuticalfactory in Sudan that may have been producingchemical weapons for al-Qaida.

"It was a way to say, `Look, we did something,'"he said.

A Washington-based analyst with extensiveexperience in Africa said that administration offi-cials have approached him asking for help inconnecting the dots to Mali, whose northern halffell to al-Qaida-linked rebels this spring. Theywanted to know if he could suggest potential tar-gets, which he says he was not able to do.

"The civilian side is looking into doing something,and is running into a lot of pushback from themilitary side," the analyst said. "The resistancethat is coming from the military side is becausethe military has both worked in the region andtrained in the region. So they are more realistic."

Islamists in the region are preparing for a reac-tion from the U.S.

"If America hits us, I promise you that we willmultiply the Sept. 11 attack by 10," said OumarOuld Hamaha, a spokesman for the Islamists innorthern Mali, while denying that his group or al-Qaida fighters based in Mali played a role in theBenghazi attack.

Finding the militants who overwhelmed a smallsecurity force at the consulate isn't going to beeasy.

The key suspects are members of the Libyanmilitia group Ansar al-Shariah. The group hasdenied responsibility, but eyewitnesses sawAnsar fighters at the consulate, and U.S. intelli-

gence intercepted phonecalls after the attack fromAnsar fighters to leaders ofal-Qaida in the IslamicMaghreb, or AQIM, braggingabout it. The affiliate's lead-ers are known to be mostlyin northern Mali, where theyhave seized a territory aslarge as Texas following acoup in the country's capital.

But U.S. investigators haveonly loosely linked "one ortwo names" to the attack,and they lack proof that itwas planned ahead of time,or that the local fighters hadany help from the larger al-Qaida affiliate, officials say.

If that proof is found, the White House mustdecide whether to ask Libyan security forces toarrest the suspects with an eye to extraditingthem to the U.S. for trial, or to simply target thesuspects with U.S. covert action.

U.S. officials say covert action is more likely. TheFBI couldn't gain access to the consulate untilweeks after the attack, so it is unlikely it will beable to build a strong criminal case. The U.S. isalso leery of trusting the arrest and questioningof the suspects to the fledgling Libyan securityforces and legal system still building after theoverthrow of Moammar Gadhafi in 2011.

The burden of proof for U.S. covert action is farlower, but action by the CIA or special operationsforces still requires a body of evidence thatshows the suspect either took part in the vio-lence or presents a "continuing and persistent,imminent threat" to U.S. targets, current and for-mer officials said.

"If the people who were targeted were them-selves directly complicit in this attack or directlyaffiliated with a group strongly implicated in theattack, then you can make an argument of immi-nence of threat," said Robert Grenier, formerdirector of the CIA's Counterterrorism Center.

But if the U.S. acts alone to target them in Africa," it raises all kinds of sovereignty issues ... andmakes people very uncomfortable," said Grenier,who has criticized the CIA's heavy use of dronesin Pakistan without that government's support.

Even a strike that happens with permission couldprove problematic, especially in Libya or Maliwhere al-Qaida supporters are currently based.Both countries have fragile, interim governmentsthat could lose popular support if they are seenallowing the U.S. unfettered access to hunt al-Qaida.

The Libyan government is so wary of the U.S.investigation expanding into unilateral action thatit refused requests to arm the drones now beingflown over Libya. Libyan officials have com-plained publicly that they were unaware of howlarge the U.S. intelligence presence was inBenghazi until a couple of dozen U.S. officialsshowed up at the airport after the attack, waitingto be evacuated - roughly twice the number ofU.S. staff the Libyans thought were there. Anumber of those waiting to be evacuated workedfor U.S. intelligence, according to two Americanofficials.

In Mali, U.S. officials have urged the governmentto allow special operations trainers to return, towork with Mali's forces to push al-Qaida out ofthat country's northern area. AQIM is among the

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Crashes and incidents being reported on area road-ways by the Florida Highway Patrol and FloridaDepartment of Transportationinclude:

7:37 a.m., disabled vehicle near the 1700 block ofeastbound Cypress Creek Road, blocking a leftlane;

7:24 a.m., disabled vehicle on U.S. 1 at I-595;

7:23 a.m., crash on southbound I-95 afterHallandale Beach Boulevard, blocking a left lane;7:11 a.m., I-595 eastbound crash at the exit ramp tonorthbound I-95, no travel lanes blocked;

7:08 a.m., disabled vehicle on southbound I-95 nearthe exit ramp to Woolbright Road in Boynton Beach.

The incident having the biggest affect on SouthFlorida's roadways early Monday happened innorthwest Miami-Dade where a lunch truck over-turned in the northbound lanes of Interstate 75 nearMiami Gardens Drive (Northwest 186th Street).

Shortly before 7 a.m., the incident had most of thenorthbound lanes closed and was causing signifi-cant delays.

By 7:30 a.m., all travel lanes were reopened butnorthbound travel was extremely slow.

The crash site is just south of the Broward Countyline and was causing some southbound delaysbecause of onlookers.

Additionally, outside Fort Pierce, all the southboundlanes of Interstate 95 were closed because of a trac-tor trailer fire. Southbound I-95 motorists werebeing detoured off the roadway at OkeechobeeRoad.

Northbound I-95 crashthrough Pompano Beach

Crashes and incidents being reported Tuesdaymorning on South Florida's roadways by the FloridaHighway Patrol and Florida Department ofTransportation include:

6:47 a.m., northbound I-95 injury crash near CopansRoad in Pompano Beach, slowdowns through thecrash scene;

6:25 a.m., southbound crash I-95 approachingSheridan Street;

6:14 a.m., northbound I-95 near Hallandale BeachBoulevard, debris reported in the roadway;

5:58 a.m., northbound injury crash on I-95 nearHollywood Boulevard, travel lanes now clear;

Northbound I-95, hit-and-run crash near theentrance ramp to Hallandale Beach Boulevard.

October 12, 2012

October 9,2012

Motorcycle in I-95 Crash:

October 13, 2012

WEST PALM BEACH — A motorcyclist was struckby a white Toyota Tacoma on the northboundBelvedere Road exit ramp of Interstate 95 this morn-ingAccording to the Florida Highway Patrol, around 9a.m. today, a man in his 20s driving a blackKawasaki motorcycle attempted to make a lanechange when he struck the Toyota and was thrownfrom his motorcycle.The man - whose name has not been released - wastaken to St. Mary's Medical Center and treated forminor injuries.

Fort Pierce motoristaccused in high-speed

chase, accident after roadrage incident

All but one lane reopenson I-95 near Boynton after

crash

October 14, 2012

PORT ST. LUCIE — A Fort Pierce motorist sped upto 120 mph through the city as law enforcement offi-cers pursed him in a road rage case late Thursdaynight, according to arrest affidavits.Michael Hicks, 23, of the 3100 block of NaylorTerrace, finally was apprehended after he ran into apickup truck, spinning it almost 180 degrees.When Hicks was hospitalized for injuries, a deputyquoted him as telling medical staff he had takenXanax.He was arrested by sheriff’s deputies and police onfour felony charges: aggravated battery, aggravatedfleeing from a law enforcement officer and tamper-ing with evidence tampering by allegedly throwing abeer can out of the window of his 2002 Buick. Healso was charged with driving while intoxicated,reports show.The pursuit started when Port St. Lucie police got a911 call from a motorist complaining Hicks was pur-suing him after they talked at a gas station on St.Lucie West Boulevard. The caller said Hicks wasupset about a breakup with a girlfriend. The girlfriendalleged Hicks was holding the caller as a hostage atthe gas station, the report states.However, the caller said he shook hands with Hicksbefore driving off — then Hicks reportedly startedclosely following the car and bumping it, accordingto arrest reports.Hicks is accused of speeding on Airoso Boulevard,St. James Drive and 25th Street until finally strikingthe pickup truck at Oleander Avenue at 11:48 p.m.Along the way, he ran a red light and stop signs inalleged attempts to escape law enforcement,according to the reports.In a report, a deputy wrote that at one point, “Ireached a speed of almost 120 mph ... (and) thedefendant began (pulling) away from me. I estimat-ed his speed to be 120 to 130 mph” on South 25thStreet.

October 13, 2012

A work trailer full of nails and carpentry overturned inthe southbound lanes of Interstate 95 in the BoyntonBeach area this morning, temporarily blocking threelanes of traffic as crews worked to clear the debrisfrom the road, Florida Highway Patrol reports.All but one lane of the interstate is now open, FHPspokesman Lt. Tim Frith said.“It overturned and nails were all over thre or fourlanes,” he said.The crash happened about 7:27 a.m. near BoyntonBeach Boulevard. At one point, three southboundlanes were closed and the traffic backed up to 6thAvenue South in the Lake Worth area.

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October 14, 2012One person was air lifted to Shands JacksonvilleMedical Center after a two-car accident on U.S. 1South, said St. Johns County Fire Rescuespokesman Lt. Andrew O’Quinn.The accident happened around 5:05 p.m. at U.S. 1South and State Road 206, according to theFlorida Highway Patrol.The crash involved a Nissan and a dump truck,said Ron Cooper, Florida Highway Patrol communi-cations center supervisor.John Begley, 42, was the driver of the Nissan,Cooper said. David Allen Hicks, 33, drove thedump truck.The driver of the Nissan was taken to the hospitalin serious condition, O’Quinn said.Further details about the crash and the drivers’hometowns were not available as of Fridayevening.Part of U.S. 1 South was blocked for more than anhour.

I-95 injury crash throughPompano Beach

Among the crashes and incidents being reportedFriday morning by the Florida Highway Patrol andFlorida Department of Transportation on area road-ways:8:59 a.m., injury crash on I-95 northbound nearSample Road inPompano Beach, no travel lanesblocked;Hit-and-run crash on the I-95 northbound entranceramp to Griffin Road in Dania Beach, no travellanes blocked;8:31 a.m., crash in the northbound lanes of I-95after Hillsboro Boulevard in Deerfield Beach, notravlel lanes blocked.

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18 electoral votesand one of theplaces where he hasgained ground sincelast week's debate.

"I think I've saidtime and again thatI'm a pro-life candi-date and I'll be apro-life president,"he said, renewinghis promise to cut offfederal aid forPlanned Parenthoodand implement aban on the use offoreign aid for abor-tions overseas.

But by the timehe spoke, Obama's aides had alreadyjumped on comments from an interviewwith The Des Moines Register in whichRomney said "there's no legislation withregards to abortion that I'm familiar with thatwould become part of my agenda."

Stephanie Cutter, Obama's deputy cam-paign manager, told reporters on a confer-ence call that Romney was "cynically anddishonestly" hiding his positions onwomen's issues. "We're not saying he'schanged his mind on these issues. We'resaying he's trying to cover up his beliefs,"she said.

For entirely different reasons, oneprominent anti-abortion group agreed thathe shouldn't.

As if to remind Romney of his previousstatements on the issue, the head of theanti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony Listdistributed an article he wrote last summervowing to prohibit federal funding forPlanned Parenthood and to support legisla-tion that would "protect unborn children whoare capable of feeling pain from abortion."

"We have full confidence that as presi-dent, Gov. Romney will stand by the pro-lifecommitments," said Marjorie Dannenfelser,the group's president.

Vice presidential encounters rarelymake a significant difference in a WhiteHouse campaign, although aides engage inthe same sort of attempt to shape publicexpectations as when the men at the top ofthe ticket are ready to face off.

For Ryan's camp, that meant whisperingthat the 42-year-old Wisconsin congress-man and House Budget Committee chair-man was comfortable discussing spendingissues and domestic policy, but might notbe able to hold his own on foreign policy, aBiden strong suit.

The vice president's side let it be knownthat Ryan is smart and wonky, a man whoknows the budget better than anyone - butit's a version that omits mention of Biden'snearly four decades of experience in gov-ernment and his role as Obama's point manin budget negotiations with Republicans onan elusive deficit-reduction deal.

Romney's wife, Ann, took a turn asguest host on ABC's "Good Morning

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SIDNEY, Ohio (AP) --President Barack Obamaconceded Wednesday he didpoorly in a debate last weekthat fueled a comeback by hisrival in the race for the WhiteHouse. Mitt Romney barn-stormed battleground Ohioand pledged "I'm not going toraise taxes on anyone" in anew commercial.

A perennial campaignissue flared unexpectedly asRomney reaffirmed he is run-ning as a "pro-life candidateand I'll be a pro-life presi-dent." He spoke one day aftersaying in an interview he wasnot aware of any abortion-related legislation that wouldbecome part of his agenda if he wins theWhite House.

Romney and Obama maneuvered in arace with 27 days to run as Vice PresidentJoe Biden and Republican running matePaul Ryan looked ahead to their onlydebate, set for Thursday night in Danville,Ky.

Whatever the impact of the Biden-Ryanencounter, last week's presidential debateboosted Romney in the polls nationally andin Ohio and other battleground states, tothe point that Obama was still struggling toexplain a performance even his aides andsupporters say was subpar.

"Gov. Romney had a good night. I had abad night. It's not the first time I've had abad night," Obama said in an ABC inter-view.

Asked if it was possible he had handedthe election to Romney, the presidentreplied: "No."

"What's important is the fundamentalsof what this race is about haven't changed,"he said. "You know, Gov. Romney went to alot of trouble to try to hide what his positionsare," he said, referring to abortion as anexample.

Despite the presidential display of confi-dence, public opinion polls suggested theimpact of last week's debate was to wipeout most, if not all, of the gains Obamamade following both parties' national con-ventions and the emergence in late sum-mer of a videotape in which Romney spokedismissively of 47 percent of Americanswhom he said pay no income taxes. Theyfeel as if they are victims, he said, adding

they don't take personal responsibilities fortheir lives.

Eager to capitalize on his newfoundmomentum, Romney told more than 7,000packed into a western Ohio rally: "We can'tafford four more years of Barack Obama."

The Republican challenger made threepublic appearances in Ohio on Wednesdayand will spend two of the next three days inthe state.

"Ohio could well be the place that electsthe next president of the United States," hesaid. "I need you to do that job. We're goingto win together."

Romney's new television commercialwas an appeal to voters' pocketbooks - andalso a rebuttal to Obama's claim thatRomney had a plan to cut taxes by $5 tril-lion on the wealthy that would mean highertaxes for the middle class.

"The president would prefer raisingtaxes," Romney is shown saying in anexchange from last week's debate. "I'm notgoing to raise taxes on anyone. ... My prior-ity is putting people back to work inAmerica."

Unemployment and the economy havebeen the dominant issues in the race for thepresidency, and while Romney gained fromthe debate, last week's drop in the joblessrate to 7.8 percent gave Obama a new talk-ing point for the Democratic claim that hispolicies are helping the country recover,however slowly, from the worst recession indecades.

Romney also sought to lay any abortion-related controversy to rest as he cam-paigned across Ohio, a battleground with

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The ice goes on

seemingly forever in a white pancake-flat land-

scape, stretching farther than ever before. And

yet in this confounding region of the world, that

spreading ice may be a cockeyed signal of man-

made climate change, scientists say.

This is Antarctica, the polar opposite of the

Arctic.

While the North Pole has been losing sea ice

over the years, the water nearest the South Pole

has been gaining it. Antarctic sea ice hit a record

7.51 million square miles in September. That

happened just days after reports of the biggest

loss of Arctic sea ice on record.

Climate change skeptics have seized on the

Antarctic ice to argue that the globe isn't warm-

ing and that scientists are ignoring the southern

continent because it's not convenient. But scien-

tists say the skeptics are misinterpreting what's

happening and why.

Shifts in wind patterns and the giant ozone

hole over the Antarctic this time of year - both

related to human activity - are probably behind

the increase in ice, experts say. This subtle

growth in winter sea ice since scientists began

measuring it in 1979 was initially surprising,

they say, but makes sense the more it is studied.

"A warming world can have complex and

sometimes surprising consequences," researcher

Ted Maksym said this week from an Australian

research vessel surrounded by Antarctic sea ice.

He is with the Woods Hole Oceanographic

Institution in Massachusetts.

Many experts agree. Ted Scambos of the

National Snow and Ice Data Center in Colorado

adds: "It sounds counterintuitive, but the

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Antarctic is part of the warming as well."

And on a third continent, David Vaughan of

the British Antarctic Survey says that yes, what's

happening in Antarctica bears the fingerprints of

man-made climate change.

"Scientifically the change is nowhere near as

substantial as what we see in the Arctic," says

NASA chief scientist Waleed Abdalati, an ice

expert. "But that doesn't mean we shouldn't be

paying attention to it and shouldn't be talking

about it."

Sea ice is always melting near one pole while

growing around the other. But the overall trend

year to year is dramatically less ice in the Arctic

and slightly more in the Antarctic.

It's most noticeable in September, when

northern ice is at its lowest and southern ice at its

highest. For over 30 years, the Arctic in

September has been losing an average of 5.7

square miles of sea ice for every square mile

gained in Antarctica.

Loss of sea ice in the Arctic can affect people

in the Northern Hemisphere, causing such things

as a higher risk of extreme weather in the U.S.

through changes to the jet stream, scientists say.

Antarctica's weather peculiarities, on the other

hand, don't have much effect on civilization.

At well past midnight in Antarctica, where

it's about 3 degrees, Maksym describes in a rare

ship-to-shore telephone call from the R.V.

Aurora Australis what this extra ice means in

terms of climate change. And what it's like to be

out studying it for two months, with the nearest

city 1,500 miles away.

"It's only you and the penguins," he says. "It's

really a strikingly beautiful and stark landscape.

Sometimes it's even an eerie kind of landscape."

While the Arctic is open ocean encircled by

land, the Antarctic - about 1.5 times the size of

the U.S. - is land circled by ocean, leaving more

room for sea ice to spread. That geography

makes a dramatic difference in the two polar cli-

mates.

The Arctic ice responds more directly to

warmth. In the Antarctic, the main driver is wind,

Maksym and other scientists say. Changes in the

strength and motion of winds are now pushing

the ice farther north, extending its reach.

Those changes in wind are tied in a compli-

cated way to climate change from greenhouse

gases, Maksym and Scambos say. Climate

change has created essentially a wall of wind that

keeps cool weather bottled up in Antarctica,

NASA's Abdalati says.

And the wind works in combination with the

ozone hole, the huge gap in Earth's protective

ozone layer that usually appears over the South

Pole. It's bigger than North America.

It's caused by man-made pollutants chlorine

and bromine, which are different from the fossil

fuel emissions that cause global warming. The

hole makes Antarctica even cooler this time of

year because the ozone layer usually absorbs

solar radiation, working like a blanket to keep the

Earth warm.

And that cooling effect makes the winds near

the ground stronger and steadier, pushing the ice

outward, Scambos says.

University of Colorado researcher Katherine

Leonard, who is on board the ship with Maksym,

says in an email that the Antarctic sea ice is also

getting snowier because climate change has

allowed the air to carry more moisture.

Winter sea ice has grown by about 1 percent

a decade in Antarctica. If that sounds small, it's

because it's an average. Because the continent is

so large, it's a little like lumping together the

temperatures of the Maine and California coasts,

Vaughan says.

Mark Serreze, director of the snow and ice

data center, says computer models have long pre-

dicted that Antarctica would not respond as

quickly to global warming as other places. Since

1960, the Arctic has warmed the most of the

world's regions, and Antarctica has warmed the

least, according to NASA data.

Scientists on the cruise with Maksym are

spending eight to 12 hours a day on the ice bun-

dled up against the fierce wind with boots that

look like Bugs Bunny's feet. It's dangerous work.

Cracks in sea ice can form at any time. Just the

other day a sudden fissure stranded a team of sci-

entists until an inflatable bridge rescued them.

"It's a treacherous landscape," Vaughan says

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America" and spoke candidly about experi-encing depression after she was diagnosedwith multiple sclerosis 14 years ago. Shesaid horses helped her recover her mentalhealth.

"I was very, very weak and very muchworried about my life, thinking I was goingto be in a wheelchair as well. Turned tohorses, my life has been dramatically differ-ent," she said. "They gave me the energy,the passion to get out of bed when I was sosick that I didn't think I'd ever want to getout of bed."

Mrs. Romney is part-owner of a horsethat competed this summer in the Olympicsport of dressage, the equine equivalent ofballet.

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groups that filled the power vacuum after a coupby rebellious Malian forces in March. U.S. spe-cial operations forces trainers left Mali just daysafter the coup. While such trainers have notbeen invited to return, the U.S. has expanded itsintelligence effort on Mali, focusing satellite andspy flights over the contested northern region totrack and map the militant groups vying for con-trol of the territory, officials say.

In northern Mali, residents in the three largestcities say they hear the sound of airplanes over-head but can't spot them. That's standard fordrones, which are often invisible to the nakedeye, flying several thousand feet above ground.

Residents say the plane sounds have increasedsharply in recent weeks, following both theattack in Benghazi and the growing calls for amilitary intervention in Mali.

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Chabane Arby, a 23-year-old student fromTimbuktu, said the planes make a growlingsound overhead. "When they hear them, theIslamists come out and start shooting into thesky," he said.

Aboubacrine Aidarra, another resident ofTimbuktu, said the planes circle overhead bothday and night. "I have a friend who said herecently saw six at one time, circling overhead.... They are planes that fly at high altitudes. Butthey make a big sound. "

NEW DELHI (AP) -- Twenty-five species of

monkeys, langurs, lemurs and gorillas are on the

brink of extinction and need global action to protect

them from increasing deforestation and illegal traf-

ficking, researchers said Monday.

Six of the severely threatened species live in the

island nation of Madagascar, off southeast Africa.

Five more from mainland Africa, five from South

America and nine species in Asia are among those

listed as most threatened.

The report by the International Union for

Conservation of Nature was released at the United

Nations' Convention on Biological Diversity being

held in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad.

Primates, mankind's closest living relatives,

contribute to the ecosystem by dispersing seeds and

maintaining forest diversity.

Conservation efforts have helped several species

of primates that are no longer listed as endangered,

said the report, prepared every two years by some of

the world's leading primate experts.

The report, which counts species and subspecies

of primates across the world, noted that

Madagascar's lemurs are severely threatened by

habitat destruction and illegal hunting, which has

accelerated dramatically since the change of power

in the country in 2009.

Among the most severely hit was the northern

sportive lemur, with only 19 known individuals left

in the wild in Madagascar.

"Lemurs are now one of the world's most endan-

gered groups of mammals, after more than three

years of political crisis and a lack of effective

enforcement in their home country, Madagascar,"

said Christoph Schwitzer of the Bristol

Conservation and Science Foundation, one of the

groups involved in the study.

"A similar crisis is happening in Southeast Asia,

where trade in wildlife is bringing many primates

very close to extinction," Schwitzer said.

More than half of the world's 633 types of pri-

mates are in danger of becoming extinct because of

human activity such as the burning and clearing of

tropical forests, the hunting of primates for food and

the illegal wildlife trade.

While the situation appears dire for some

species, wildlife researchers say conservation efforts

are beginning to pay off, with several primates being

removed from the list, now in its seventh edition.

India's lion-tailed macaque and Madagascar's

greater bamboo lemur have been taken off the

endangered inventory for 2012 after the targeted

species appeared to have recovered.

Also, conservation efforts have ensured that the

world did not lose a single primate species to extinc-

tion in the 20th century, and no primate has been

declared extinct so far this century, said Russell A.

Mittermeier, president of Conservation International

and the chairman of the IUCN Species Survival

Commission's primate specialist group.

"Amazingly, we continue to discover new

species every year since 2000," Mittermeier said.

"What is more, primates are increasingly becoming

a major ecotourism attraction, and primate-watching

is growing in interest."

In a separate report on global urbanization

released Monday at the Hyderabad conference, the

United Nations urged urban planners to incorporate

green spaces in cities as more and more people move

away from rural areas in search of work.

Green areas in big cities perform important eco-

logical functions, such as "filtering dust, absorbing

carbon dioxide from the air and improving air qual-

ity," the Convention on Biological Diversity said in

its new assessment.

The "Cities and Biodiversity Outlook" is the

first global analysis of how urban land expansion

will impact biodiversity in the coming decades.

The world's total urban area is expected to triple

between 2000 and 2030, with urban populations set

to double to around 4.9 billion in the same period.

Data from the United Kingdom show that a 10

percent increase in tree canopy cover in cities may

result in a 3-4 degree Celsius decrease in ambient

temperature, thus reducing energy used for air con-

ditioning, the report said.

Urban biodiversity also delivers important

health benefits, with studies showing that proximity

to trees can reduce the prevalence of childhood asth-

ma and allergies.

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Prokopi has been involved in a lawsuit inNew York over the auction because theMongolian government has said it maybelong to that country. Prokopi's attorneyin the lawsuit, Michael McCullough, hassaid his client is entitled to keep the crea-ture he spent a year putting together atgreat expense.

McCullough has said the U.S. governmentwas incorrect when it alleged that theskeleton pieces were brought into thecountry in one $15,000 shipment. He saidthere were three other shipments and only37 percent of the completed skeletoncame from one specimen.

Federal prosecutors said Prokopi misrep-resented the identity, origin and value ofthe skeleton of the Tyrannosaurus bataar,a dinosaur that lived approximately 70 mil-lion years ago.

Prokopi also is accused of illegally import-ing from Mongolia the skeleton of aSaurolophus, another dinosaur from thelate Cretaceous period that he sold to agallery in California along with fossils oftwo other dinosaurs native to Mongolia,Gallimimus and Oviraptor mongoliensis.He also imported the fossilized remains ofa Microraptor, a small, flying dinosaur fromChina, the complaint said.

MIAMI (AP) -- A Florida man was chargedWednesday with smuggling dinosaur fos-sils into the United States, including anearly complete Tyrannosaurus Bataarskeleton from Mongolia, federal prosecu-tors said.

Eric Prokopi, a self-described "commercialpaleontologist" who buys and sells wholeand partial dinosaur skeletons, was arrest-ed at his home in Gainesville, according toa complaint unsealed by prosecutors. Hewas charged with smuggling goods intothe U.S. and interstate sale and receipt ofstolen goods.

He also faces one count of conspiracy tosmuggle illegal goods, possess stolenproperty and make false statements. Ifconvicted on all of the charges, he couldface up to 35 years in prison.

Prokopi made an appearance Wednesdayin federal court in Gainesville, where U.S.

District Judge Gary R. Jones ordered himto be held on $100,000 bond. Prokopimust also surrender his passport and bekept under home detention. He did notenter a plea.

The arrest was handled by U.S.Immigration and Customs Enforcement'sHomeland Security Investigations.

Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bhararasaid the investigation "uncovered a one-man black market in prehistoric fossils."The U.S. government seized theTyrannosaurus skeleton earlier this yearafter it was sold by an auction house for$1.05 million.

Prokopi did not immediately respond to aphone call, but his attorney has said hedid nothing wrong.