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10A Daily News – Saturday, October 13, 2012 Space shuttle Endeavour kicks off final mission — It's a surreal sight resi- dents won't soon forget: A hulking space shuttle strutting down city streets, pausing every so often to get its bearings as it creeps toward retire- ment. LOS ANGELES (AP) journey began before dawn Friday when it departed from the Los Angeles International Airport, rolling on a 160- wheeled carrier past dia- mond-shaped ''Shuttle Xing'' signs. Endeavour's terrestrial Hundreds of camera- toting spectators, some with pajama-clad children in tow, gaped as the 170,000-pound Endeav- our inched by with its tail towering over streetlights and its wings spanning the roadway. Over two days, it will trundle 12 miles at a top speed of 2 mph to its final destination — the Califor- nia Science Center where it will be the centerpiece of a new exhibit. After an initial bumpy ride and a brief delay, the shuttle pulled off a mas- sive feat of parallel park- ing by backing into a shopping center parking lot for a layover as crowds cheered on. Romney: Biden Romney once again pushed foreign policy to the forefront of a cam- paign dominated for more than a year by the econo- my, which has been painfully slow to recover from the worst recession in more than a half centu- ry. strain doctors ALEPPO, Syria (AP) — The injured arrive at the hospital in taxis or in the back of pickup trucks, to the blare of car horns and shouts of ''Help!'' Sometimes, they are battle-hardened rebels with gaping wounds. Sometimes, they are chil- dren, peppered with shrapnel and screaming in pain. Wave upon wave of wounded Those who die are left on the sidewalk outside, to be claimed hours later by relatives. WORLD BRIEFING 'doubling down on denial' RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Broadening his attack on administration foreign policy, Mitt Rom- ney accused Vice Presi- dent Joe Biden on Friday of ''doubling down on denial'' in a dispute over security at a diplomatic post in Libya that was overrun by terrorists who killed the U.S. ambas- sador and three other Americans. ''The vice president directly contradicted the sworn testimony of State Department officials,'' the Republican presidential candidate said, eager to stoke a controversy that has flared periodically since the attack on Sept. 11 ''... American citizens have a right to know just what's going on. And we're going to find out.'' President Barack Obama had no campaign appearances during the day, leaving it to White House press secretary Jay Carney to defend Biden's assertion in a campaign debate Thursday night that ''we weren't told'' of an official request for more security at the site. The spokesman reject- ed Romney's claim of a contradiction. Biden ''was speaking directly for himself and for the president. He meant the White House,'' Carney said. With his accusation, An Associated Press team spent 24 hours at Dar al-Shifa hospital in Aleppo and witnessed the frantic work by overtaxed doctors and nurses to save those wounded in the bat- tle for control of Syria's largest city. The AP first visited the hospital last month and returned this week to get a fuller impression of how its staff is coping amid Syria's civil war. The rou- tine is as simple as it is brutal: A barrage of shelling echoes over the city, and about 15 minutes later, the wounded flow in. $207 billion WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has now spent $1 trillion more than it's taken in for four straight years. The Treasury Depart- ment confirmed Friday what was widely expect- ed: The deficit for the just-ended 2012 budget year — the gap between the government's tax rev- enue and its spending — totaled $1.1 trillion. It wasn't quite as ugly as last year. US budget deficit dips government and critic of federal handouts. But as a congressman in Wiscon- sin, Ryan lobbied for tens of millions of dollars on behalf of his constituents for the kinds of largess he's now campaigning against, according to an Associated Press review of 8,900 pages of corre- spondence between Ryan's office and more than 70 executive branch agencies. For 12 years in the House, Ryan wrote to fed- eral agencies supporting expansion of food stamps in his Wisconsin district. He supported city offi- cials and everyday con- stituents who sought stim- ulus grants, federally guaranteed business loans, grants to invest in green technology and money under the health care law he opposes. On the campaign trail, Ryan has called those kinds of handouts big- government overreaching. He tells crowds he sup- ports smaller government and rails against what he calls President Barack Obama's wasteful spend- ing, including the presi- dent's $800 billion stimu- lus program. Ryan renewed his criticism about stimulus spending in Thursday night's vice presidential debate. ''Was it a good idea to spend taxpayer dollars on electric cars in Finland or on windmills in China?'' Ryan said. ''Was it a good idea to borrow all this money from countries like China and spend it on all these various different interest groups?'' Yet the AP's review of Ryan's congressional cor- respondence showed that he sought stimulus fund- ing on behalf of residents and at one point told fed- eral regulators that cutting a stimulus grant in his dis- trict at the 11th hour would be ''economically devastating.'' Thanks to a slightly healthier economy, rev- enue rose 6.4 percent from 2011. And govern- ment spending fell 1.7 percent to $3.5 trillion. That reflected, in part, less defense spending as U.S. military involvement in Iraq was winding down and less spending on Medicaid. As a result, the deficit shrank 16 percent, or $207 billion. programs WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican vice presi- dential candidate Paul Ryan is a fiscal conserva- tive, champion of small Letters show Ryan asking for federal Night Club Cardio Experience CLUB SWEAT INTRODUCING Friday Night Nov. 16th How would you like to feel the energy of a dance club during your workout? Club Sweat creates a night club environment while you get your cardio on! Get motivated while a Featured DJ Pumps an exclusive hit mix. Have fun with your friends while you do something REALLY GOOD for yourself! Have a blast as you train as hard as you dance in the club! Who said cardio has to be boring? Start the weekend off right with an hour or two of cardio! Train on our cardio equipment with laser lights beaming around you! 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Two buses used by the Brotherhood to bring in supporters were set aflame behind the Egypt- ian Museum, the reposito- ry of the country's pharaonic antiquities, and thick black smoke bil- lowed into the sky in scenes reminiscent of last year's clashes between DAILYNEWS in Discount Coupons were published last week in the RED BLUFF TEHAMACOUNTY offering percentage discounts, two-for-ones and Free-with-Purchase offers! … And that does not count all the ads Don't miss a day of it! Subscribe Today 527-2151 It pays for itself. $ 4,153 98 $ 98 system of approving solar projects, which let devel- opers choose where they wanted to build utility- scale solar sites and allowed for land specula- tion. The department no longer will decide pro- jects within the zones on a case-by-case basis as it had since 2005, when solar developers began fil- ing applications. Instead, the department will direct development to land it has identified as having fewer wildlife and natural- resource obstacles. The government is establishing 17 new ''solar energy zones'' on 285,000 acres in six states: California, Neva- da, Arizona, Utah, Col- orado and New Mexico. More than half of the land — 153,627 acres — is in Southern California. Romney crowds are surging as GOP protesters against the regime of then-leader Hosni Mubarak and his backers. The melee erupted between two competing rallies in Tahrir. One was by liberal and secular activists to criticize Morsi's failure to achieve promises he had made for first 100 days in power, the other had been called by Morsi's Muslim Broth- erhood. puter systems of Persian Gulf oil and gas compa- nies. The clashes come as criticism among leftists, liberals and secularists against Morsi has been growing since he was inaugurated more than three months ago as Egypt's first freely elected president. Opponents accuse Morsi, the Broth- erhood and other Islamists of trying to impose their dominance and Islamize the state, including through the writing of a new constitu- tion. Some Egyptians are also frustrated that Morsi, a longtime Brotherhood figure, has not done more to resolve the multiple problems facing the coun- try — from a faltering economy and fuel short- ages to tenuous security and uncollected piles of garbage in the streets. cyberattack WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's pointed warning that the U.S. will strike back against a cyberattack underscores the Obama administra- tion's growing concern that Iran could be the first country to unleash cybert- errorism on America. 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Panetta made it clear that the military is ready to retaliate — though he didn't say how — if it believes the nation is threatened by a cyberat- tack, and he made it evi- dent that the U.S. would consider a preemptive strike. ''Iran is a country for whom terror has simply been another tool in their foreign policy toolbox, and they are a country that feels it has less and less to lose by breaking the norms of the rest of the world,'' said Stewart Baker, former assistant secretary at the Depart- ment of Homeland Secu- rity and now in private law practice. ''If anybody is going to release irre- sponsible unlimited attacks, you'd expect it to be Iran.'' development SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Federal officials on Friday approved a plan that sets aside 445 square miles of public land for the development of large- scale solar power plants, cementing a new govern- ment approach to renew- able energy development in the West after years of delays and false starts. At a news conference in Las Vegas, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar called the new plan a ''roadmap ... that will lead to faster, smarter utility- scale solar development on public lands.'' Interior secretary approves plan to streamline solar The plan replaces the department's previous first-come, first-served enthusiasm The crowds tell the story. As Election Day nears, Mitt Romney is drawing large and excited throngs. Look to dusty Iowa builds SIDNEY, Ohio (AP) — cornfields, rain-soaked Virginia parks, the muddy fields of the Shelby Coun- ty Fairgrounds, where a crowd of 9,500 — almost half of this western Ohio town — gathered among the barns and stables on a frigid October evening this week to glimpse the Republican presidential contender. ''Where else would we want to be?'' said one of the shivering faithful, Judy Cartwright, a 71-year-old nurse from Sidney. ''I want to see the next presi- dent of the United States.'' Romney's debate per- formance against Presi- dent Barack Obama last week — and his energetic appearances following it up — have fueled a rise in enthusiasm on the cam- paign trail. Whether or not it will translate into votes, polls do suggest that Republicans are fired up. It's a welcome develop- ment for the Republican businessman, who is hard- ly a natural politician and has long struggled to match Obama's ability to inspire excitement. Romney seems to be feeding off the energy pumping through his now- sprawling crowds, even as aides downplay the new- found momentum among the GOP base. peace BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Commission president had no reason to expect anything but another bad day. Then, out of the blue, after three years of back-biting and seemingly daily financial crisis, the European Union won the Nobel Peace Prize for fos- tering peace on a continent long ravaged by war. It was a badly needed morale boost for a 60-year- old union in the midst of a midlife crisis. Even as it announced the European Union wins Nobel Peace Prize for fostering award Friday, the Norwe- gian prize jury warned that the financial crisis challeng- ing the 27-nation bloc's unity could lead to a return to ''extremism and national- ism.'' It urged Europeans to remember the EU's role in building peace and reconcil- iation among enemies who fought Europe's bloodiest wars, even as they tackle the economic crisis that threatens its future.