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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 ...
• American Paul Krugman wins economics Nobel
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 States ...
• Writers pick up pens to protest detentions
Forty-two authors including Monica Ali, Julian Barnes, Ian Rankin, Alain de Botton, and A.L. Kennedy contributed to a collection posted online a day ahead of a critical parliamentary vote on the issue. Ali, who won widespread acclaim for her first ...
• Dexter’ brings Smits back as TV crimebuster
LOS ANGELES - Jimmy Smits, a proven TV star in "L.A. Law" and "NYPD Blue," is looking like the go-to guy when a drama's juicy guest role demands leading-man heft. In the final season of "The West Wing," he was a Latino politician who becomes the ...
• Dennis Hopper plays crazy for ‘Crash’
From the premiere’s signature car crash to an L.A. police station, the show is filmed mostly in Albuquerque, N.M., where production is cheaper. A few second-unit exterior scenes were lensed in L.A. Series creator Glen Mazzara says the decision to ...