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Christi Chandler, left, and Stacy Hawsey, both of Madison and supporters of the Personhood Amendment promote their initiative as they waver signs at drivers in the midst of last minute campaigning Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011 in Madison, Miss. The Mississippi measure that would define life as beginning at conception was given a decent chance of approval. Passage would be the first victory in the country for the so-called personhood movement, which aims to make abortion all but illegal. Similar attempts have failed in Colorado and are under way elsewhere. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Christi Chandler, left, and Stacy Hawsey, both of Madison and supporters of the Personhood Amendment promote their initiative as they waver signs at drivers in the midst of last minute campaigning Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011 in Madison, Miss. The Mississippi measure that would define life as beginning at conception was given a decent chance of approval. Passage would be the first victory in the country for the so-called personhood movement, which aims to make abortion all but illegal. Similar attempts have failed in Colorado and are under way elsewhere. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Firefighter Tom Sullivan campaigns against Issue 2 outside a polling location in Strongsville, Ohio Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011. Ohioans are deciding the winner of this year’s drawn-out fight over a law limiting collective bargaining for 350,000 unionized public workers. The issue tops the Election Day list of ballot questions before the state’s voters. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

Firefighter Tom Sullivan campaigns against Issue 2 outside a polling location in Strongsville, Ohio Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011. Ohioans are deciding the winner of this year’s drawn-out fight over a law limiting collective bargaining for 350,000 unionized public workers. The issue tops the election day list of ballot questions before the state’s voters. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

Denita Jones casts her affidavit ballot Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011 in Brandon, Miss. Voters throughout the state are voting for statewide offices, legislative seats and some county offices. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Voters chose governors in Mississippi and Kentucky on Tuesday, casting ballots that could foreshadow the public’s political mood just two months ahead of the first presidential primary and nearly four years into the worst economic slowdown since the Depression.

A wide range of ballot measures was also being decided, including a hotly debated proposal to restore the bargaining rights of Ohio public employees and a Mississippi referendum on whether to define life as beginning at conception. Supporters of the Mississippi measure hope to use it to mount a legal attack on Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that established the right to abortion.

In both governors’ races, the offices were expected to stay in the hands of incumbent parties, suggesting voters are not ready to abandon their loyalties, despite the nation’s economic woes. Still, the contests were being closely watched for any hints going into 2012, when 10 states will elect governors.

Faced with deep budget gaps and tea-party pressure to curb spending, Republican governors around the country have sought union-limiting measures throughout the year. In Ohio, voters will decide whether to repeal a new law severely limiting the bargaining rights of more than 350,000 teachers, firefighters, police officers and other public employees.

Recent polls suggested the repeal movement would succeed. The disputed law permits workers to negotiate wages but not pensions or health care benefits, and it bans public-worker strikes, scraps binding arbitration and eliminates annual raises for teachers.

The outcome will no doubt be watched by presidential candidates as a gauge of the Ohio electorate, which is seen as a bellwether. No Republican has won the White House without Ohio, and only two Democrats have done so in more than a century.

Also on the Ohio ballot was a proposal to prohibit people from being required to buy health insurance as part of the national health care overhaul. A vote against the health care law would be mostly symbolic, but Republicans hope to use the outcome as part of a legal challenge.

The governors’ races will be of keen interest to both parties, since governors can marshal get-out-the-vote efforts crucial to any White House candidate. The first presidential primary is Jan. 10 in New Hampshire.

In Mississippi, Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant appeared poised to keep the governor’s mansion in GOP hands, succeeding Haley Barbour, who toyed with a run for president. Bryant faced Hattiesburg Mayor Johnny Dupree, the first black major-party nominee for governor in Mississippi.

In Kentucky, Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear cruised toward re-election despite high unemployment, budget shortfalls and an onslaught of third-party attack ads.

The Mississippi measure that would define life as beginning at conception was given a decent chance of approval. Passage would be the first victory in the country for the so-called personhood movement, which aims to make abortion all but illegal. Similar attempts have failed in Colorado and are under way elsewhere.

In Arizona, state Sen. Russell Pearce, architect of the tough immigration law that put the state at the forefront of the national debate, faced a recall attempt led by a fellow Republican. But Pearce held a 3-to-1 fundraising advantage.

Other votes of note:

? In Kentucky, comic-turned-politician Robert Farmer upset some with his hillbilly jokes but hoped to ride name recognition to a new job as agriculture commissioner. In Ohio, politically incorrect comedian Drew Hastings, a “Comedy Central” fixture, ran for mayor of tiny Hillsboro.

? In Maine, voters decided whether to repeal a new state law that requires voters to register at least two days before an election. Repeal would effectively restore Election Day voter registration, which had been available for nearly four decades. Maine voters also decided whether to allow casinos in certain communities.

? In Philadelphia, Democratic Mayor Michael Nutter was expected to win re-election easily.

? Washington state voters decided whether to end the state-run liquor system and allow large stores to sell alcohol. The effort has been bankrolled by giant retailer Costco, which spent more than $22 million, making it the costliest initiative in Washington history.

? Oregon held a special primary to replace Democratic Rep. David Wu, who resigned in August after being accused of an unwanted sexual encounter with an 18-year-old woman. Wu was the fourth member of Congress to quit this year in a sex scandal.

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Associated Press Writer Andrew Welsh-Huggins in Columbus, Ohio, contributed to this report.

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JOHANNESBURG ? The first time scientists explored deep in the Indian Ocean, they found a new species of glowing squid. Now researchers who are departing from South Africa on Monday with even better equipment are hoping for similar success.

In 2009, the scientists collected some 7,000 samples including the newly discovered squid, which has light-producing organs that it uses to attract its prey. Researchers aboard the RRS James Cook are taking along special cameras for photographing the ocean floor ? something they didn’t have last time.

“We don’t know much about the deep sea community,” Aurelie Spadone, a sea specialist with the International Union for Conservation of Nature, said in a telephone interview Monday before setting out. “It would be very surprising if we don’t find something like a new species.”

The trip is focused on learning more about how deep sea fishing is affecting marine life along seamounts ? peaks rising from the floor of the southern Indian Ocean.

Carl Gustaf Lundin, director of IUCN’s Global Marine and Polar Programme, said many of the species that live around seamounts grow and reproduce slowly, so overfishing can severely affect their populations.

“Deep-sea bottom fisheries, including bottom trawling, can damage seamount habitats and negatively impact fish stocks,” Lundin said. “It can also irreversibly damage cold water corals, sponges and other animals.”

Oxford’s Alex Rogers, the expedition’s chief scientist, said the goal was to better understand a unique underwater environment and the threats it faces.

“Based on what we learn by studying five seamounts in the southwest Indian Ridge, we’re hoping to get a better idea of where special habitats, such as cold water coral reefs, occur on seamounts and how we can protect them in the ocean globally,” he said in a statement. “Perhaps we’ll also be lucky enough to discover some new species living in these virtually unknown waters.”

The expedition is being funded by IUCN, the Global Environment Facility and Britain’s Natural Environment Research Council.

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It’s always rough flying home for Thanksgiving, but if you pay attention to statistics you can travel smarter. That’s what our friends over at Hipmunk did, and they put a handy infographic together to share the best airports, travel times, and more.

For example, people flying out of Salt Lake City, Minneapolis, Portland, San Diego, or Memphis are more likely to have an on-time departure. Oakland, Houston, Salt Lake City, Miami, and St. Louis have the airports with the fewest cancellations. You can’t always control where you’re flying to and from, however, but you can control when. The four busiest flight days during the Thanksgiving holiday are projected to take place between November 23rd and November 28th. Flying on Thanksgiving Day (the 24th), however, will make your trip considerably easier. When compared to the busiest flying day (the 27th), there will be about one million fewer passengers traveling around the United States. If you want to avoid the crowds, Thanksgiving Day is definitely when you want to fly plus you want to make sure your return flight is not on the following Sunday.

The infographic offers up plenty of other handy tips on lost baggage and traveling with the whole family, so click on the thumbnail to your right to check it out.

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NEW YORK ? Leaving little to the imagination, a Chicago-area woman on Monday accused Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain of making a crude sexual advance more than a decade ago when she was seeking his help finding a job.

“Come clean,” Sharon Bialek challenged Cain at a news conference in New York at which she described herself as “a face and a voice” to support other accusers who have so far remained anonymous.

Cain’s campaign swiftly denied Bialek’s account. “All allegations of harassment against Mr. Cain are completely false,” it said in a written statement.

Even so, Bialek’s nationally broadcast appearance on cable television marked a new and ? for Cain ? dangerous turn in a controversy that he has struggled for more than a week to shed. An upstart in the presidential race, Cain shot to the top of public opinion polls in recent weeks and emerged, however temporarily, as the main conservative challenger to Mitt Romney.

Accompanied by her prominent lawyer, Gloria Allred, Bialek accused Cain of making a sexual advance one night in mid-July 1997, when she had travelled to Washington to have dinner with him in hopes he could help her find work.

She said the two had finished dinner and were in a car for what she thought was a ride to an office building.

“Instead of going into the offices he suddenly reached over and he put his hand on my leg, under my skirt toward my genitals,” she said.

“He also pushed my head toward his crotch,” she added.

Bialek said she told her boyfriend, an unidentified pediatrician, as well as a longtime male friend about the episode.

None of Cain’s other accusers has provided details as graphic as Bialek’s account. But Joel Bennett, an attorney who represents one of them, said her details were “similar in nature” to what his client encountered.

Allred, a prominent sex discrimination attorney with Democratic ties, moved preemptively to blunt any attacks on Bialek’s motives. She described her client as a registered Republican, a single mother and a woman with a long and successful career.

She also said Bialek “could have attempted to sell her story but chose not to do so,” and knew that by stepping forward, she would receive scrutiny.

Court records indicate Bialek had financial difficulties a decade ago when she filed for bankruptcy protection and reported $4,500 in unpaid rent and $13,000 in outstanding credit card bills.

Current property records show she owns a house on an acre of land in a Chicago suburb.

Some of Cain’s allies immediately made a target of Allred, a Democratic campaign donor, rather than focusing any anger on Cain’s accuser.

Georgia state Sen. Joshua McKoon, who has endorsed Cain, accused Allred of “carnival theatrics” fueled by a partisan agenda.

“Her involvement makes it clear that it’s a political smear job orchestrated by those on the left because there is nothing more terrifying than Herman Cain as the Republican nominee,” the Republican lawmaker said.

But Doug Heye, a political consultant who is unaligned in the GOP race, said Bialek’s allegations “are different because they involve a name and specific details.”

He said Allred’s involvement “is going to make some people disbelieve the charges out of hand because of the sideshow she creates. But Herman Cain has to be clear and convincing in his response.”

Even before Bialek stepped forward, presidential rival Jon Huntsman and Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour had publicly urged Cain to address the sexual harassment allegations in greater detail.

It wasn’t clear he would.

After spending much of last week denying accusations, he told reporters who sought to question him Saturday night, “don’t even go there.”

Cain had an evening appearance scheduled on the Jimmy Kimmel show, his only public event of the day.

According to lawyer and client, Bialek was employed for parts of 1996 and 1997 at the Educational Foundation of the National Restaurant Association, an industry trade group that Cain headed at the time. She said she first met him at an organization convention, interacting with him several times over the course of a few days.

After she was fired from her job about a month later, she said her boyfriend told her, “Herman seems to think highly of you. Why don’t you contact him?”

That led to a trip to Washington about a month later, where she recalled that Cain upgraded her hotel room to a suite and made his unwanted sexual advance in the car.

She said she asked Cain what he was doing and recalled he replied, “You said you want a job, right?”

Given her experience and those of other accusers, “I want you, Mr. Cain, to come clean,” she said. “Just admit what you did. Admit you were inappropriate to people.”

She added: “Mr. Cain, I implore you: Make this right so that you and the country can move forward and focus on the real issues at hand.”

The denial from Cain’s campaign was swift and as unequivocal as the allegation.

“Just as the country finally begins to refocus on our crippling $15 trillion national debt and the unacceptably high unemployment rate, now activist celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred is bringing forth more false accusations against the character of Republican front-runner Herman Cain,” it said.

“Mr. Cain has never harassed anyone.”

Bialek, in an interview later Monday, said she had hoped Cain would announce a press conference after her statement to apologize to her. But instead she learned he issued the stern denial.

“I know what happened, and he knows what happened,” Bialek said on CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight. “One of my whole objectives was to give him the opportunity to come forward, to redeem himself, say, `Hey, I’m sorry. I did this. It happened. And let’s move forward.’ And it is unfortunate. I’m very disappointed that he didn’t take the lead in this.”

She said in the interview that she was prepared for an expected media onslaught, but was more concerned about how it would affect her teenage son. She said she wants him to know she “did something for women” by speaking publicly.

When asked if Cain should be president, Bialek said: “I don’t think we can have anyone in the White House who is unable to tell the truth.”

Before Bialek first stepped to the microphone, the allegations involved two women who had worked at the National Restaurant Association, both of whom filed sexual harassment complaints.

A third woman told The Associated Press last week that she considered filing a workplace complaint against Cain over what she deemed sexually suggestive remarks and gestures that included a private invitation to his corporate apartment.

A former pollster for the restaurant association has said he witnessed yet another episode involving a fourth woman.

Allred has represented several high-profile clients, including Amber Frey, a witness against convicted California killer Scott Peterson. Allred also represented a woman whom news reports accused of having an affair with golfer Tiger Woods.

“I consider sexual harassment the No. 1 problem in the workplace,” she told the AP in an interview last week. “It denies equal opportunity in the workforce. If (women) don’t protest it, they’ll have to continue to suffer.”

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Associated Press writers Philip Elliott in Washington and Shannon McCaffrey in Atlanta contributed to this report.

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