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• Fire officials fear winds will spread L.A. wildfire
Oct. 12: A wildfire has burned hundreds of acres of forest north of Los Angeles. But even with the dangerous Santa Ana winds in the forecast, the firefighters were well-prepared. NBC’s Mark Mullen reports. LOS ANGELES - A wildfire that had ...
• Bush critic Krugman wins economics Nobel
2002: Daniel Kahneman , United States and Israel, and Vernon L. Smith , United States, for pioneering the use of psychological and experimental economics in decision-making. —2001: George A. Akerlof , A. Michael Spence and Joseph E. Stiglitz , United ...
• Customers to get more control of junk mail
DMAchoice already serves more than 4 million registered consumers and does not share consumer information with third parties. The Direct Marketing Association represents more than 3,400 companies, from catalog retailers like L.L. Bean to financial ...
• TV station helicopter crashes; 2 dead
   Oct. 13: A South Carolina girl uses the Heimlich maneuver to save a friend's life. WIS-TV's Jordan Sandler reports.     Large fire burns near L.A. HOUSTON - A pilot and television photographer died Monday when their helicopter crashed on its ...
• Southern France river cruise, from $1,399
While exploring the wine-producing towns of Tournon and Viviers, you'll visit the Musée de Tain L'Hermitage, the oldest house in the region. Then you'll continue on to Arles, known, among other things, for its Roman ruins and St.-Trophime, a Roman ...