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Horner on the Armstrong scanda: 'For
cyc ing,it's bad' • Bend cyclissays t henever saw doping asArmstrong's teammate By Mark Morical
ELECTION: FINAL DEBATE
oess aron orei n oi • Candidates vie to appearasthe moretrustworthy commander in chief in their last showdown By Peter Baker and Helene Cooper New York Times News Service
BOCA RATON, Fla. — Presi dent Barack Obama and Mitt Romney wrapped up a series of high-stakes debates Monday night with a bristling exchange over America's place in the world as each sought to portray the oth er as an unreliable commander in chief in a dangerous era.
Obama picked up where he had left off in last week's debate, going on the offensive from the very start and acOb ama cusing his challeng er of articulating an incoherent foreign policy. Romney opened less aggressively but accused the president of failing to adequately
assert U.S. interests and values, par ticularly in Libya, where an attack last month killed the Romney U.S. ambassador. What America needed, Obama said within min utes of the debate's opening at Lynn University, is "strong, steady leadership, notwrong and reckless
leadership that's all over the map.n Romney countered by calling the president counterproductive and interested only in scoring political points. "Attacking me is not an agen da," he said. "Attacking me is not talking about how we're going to deal with the challenges that ex ist in the Middle East." See Debate/A4
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Chris Horner is already tired of t alking about it. The Bend cyclist's former teammate, Lance Armstrong, was on Monday formally stripped of his seven Tour de France titles by the Inter national Cycling Union and banned for life for his involvement in what U.S. sports authorities
describe as a massive doping program. Horner, who turns 41 today, was a teammate of Armstrong's on the Astana team in2009 and the RadioShack team in 2010. The U.S. Anti-Dop ing Agency's case against Arm strong also implicated team di rector Johan Bruyneel. Horner Reached by phone on Monday, Horner insisted that he never wit nessed doping while on Bruyneel's teams the past five years. "I've never seen any doping with Bruyneel and stuff like that," said Horner. "I've done five years with Bruyneel and I never saw it, so.... You look at the years that they're talking about, and they're different years from the time when I'm on the team." Horner, who finished ninth in the Tour de France in 2010 and 13th in 2011, has raced for Bruyneel since 2008, first with Astana, then with RadioShack in 2010 and with RadioShack Nissan this year. Bruyneel last week stepped down as director of RadioShack-Nissan in light of the USADA's investigation into Armstrong. SeeCycling /A5
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Ashley Thornton and Forrest Devore,both from Bend, ski up Mount Bachelor to get some turns following the first significant snowstorm of the season. The Mt. Bachelor ski area reported more than 8 inches of fresh snow at its base on its website.
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WASHINGTON — More than 180,000 Oregon seniors would live in poverty if not for their So cial Security benefits, according to a new report released recently by a Washington think tank. Using information from the U.S. Census Bu reau's current population survey, analysts for the left-leaning Center for Budget and Policy Priorities concluded that Social Security kept 14.5 million American seniors — including 183,000 in Oregon — from living below the pov erty line in 2011. See Social Security/A5
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It was a white Monday morning in Bend, and the snowy start to the day looks to repeat. If more snow falls today and Wednesday in town, it will probably be a lot like Monday, a dusting in the morning that's gone by early afternoon, said Mari lyn Lohmann, a forecaster for the National Weather Service in Pendleton. "It doesn't look like it
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will amount to a lot," she sa>d. There was a trace to a tenth of an inch of snow around Bend on Monday, Lohmann said, before it melted. Over the past decade, the first snow has come as early as Oct. 4 and as late as Dec. D. While the weather ser vice lists Nov. 15 as the average date for the first snowfall in Bend, Kathie Dello, deputy director of
the Oregon Climate Ser vice at Oregon State Uni versity in Corvallis, said it is not a surprise for it to occur earlier. "Anytime from Oct. I on is fair game," she said. Changes in weather systems along the Oregon Coast lead to the first snow on the Central Oregon side of the Cascades, Dello said. The key ingredients are a west storm system and cold air. See Snow/A4
First snowfall Bend typically has its first measurable
amount of snow around Nov.15, according to the National Weather Service. This year it came on Monday, Oct. 22. A look at dates when the first snow fell over the last decade: 2012 — Oct. 22 2011 — Nov. 18 2010 — Oct. 26 2009 — Oct. 4 2008— Dec.13 2007 — Oct. 20
2006 — Nov. 28 2005 — Nov. 29 2004 — Dec. 6 2003 — Oct. 29 2002 — Oct. 30
Sources. Natlonal Weather Servjce, Bulletin archjves
'IED Whisperer' a lifesaver in Afghanistan By Hal Bernton
village in Panjwai District, tradi tional homeland of the Taliban. BABINEK, A fgha n i stan To defend this turf, Taliban — Staff Sgt. Kelly Rogne walked fighters have seeded Babinek and down a dusty village road, rhyth otherareas with dense concentra mically swinging a metal detec tions of bombs, creating one of tor that resembled an oversized the most perilous patrol grounds hockey stick. U.S. soldiers have encountered He led a column of more than during more than 11 years of war 20 soldiers past deep-green fields in Afghanistan. of marijuana that surround this Rogne, 36, of Colville, Wash., The Seattle Ti mes
has displayed an uncanny ability to find these improvised explosive devices (IEDs). He uses technol ogy, tracking skills and intuition honed by careful study of past bomb placements. S ome call Rogne t h e "IED Whisperer.n On an early September patrol out of Combat Outpost Mushan, Rogne located 29 IEDs through
the course of a p a i n staking, eight-hour movement acrossless than a kilometer of road, an ac complishment relayed through the chain of command to Penta
gon generals. On his next mission, Rogne would venture back on that route. "I think I'm ready. I'm feeling it. They're out there," he declared. SeelEDs/A5