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TenD thousand firefight- Davis ers were on the front lines throughout the state, and Gov. Gray Davis esti- mated the cost at nearly $2 billion. "This is a total disaster," Davis said. "It reminds me of when I was in Viet- nam, communities were burned out." Since Oct. 21, at least 10 wind- driven wildfires - many of them arson-caused - have rampaged through Southern California, demol- ishing neighborhoods, gutting busi- EDITING 1st HOUR FREE " 'English 'Vsage . Organizing " Shortening Y"6 * 15years Experience 734.717.2546 danstein@umich.edu APARTMENT HOMES A ffordable! 1, 2 & 3 Bedroom Apartment Homes advance Baghdad dAGHDAD, Iraq Van~ Bagdaddeath toll continues to rise " 0 0 0 Resident Activity Center Washer & Dryer Carwash Center Nature Trail 6 nesses and blackening more than half a million acres of land from the Mexi- can border to the Ventura-Los Angeles county line. Nearly 1,600 homes have been destroyed. Two burn victims were in critical condition in San Diego. In San Diego County, exhausted crews were pulled back even though two devastating blazes began merg- ing. A blaze of more than 200,000 acres formed a 45-mile front stretch- ing into Scripps Ranch and Julian. The fire was just miles from joining with a 37,000-acre fire near Escondi- do. The two fires have destroyed more than 900 homes. If they join up, the flames would cut off escape routes and whip up the wind. Reinforcements were sent out, but Rich Hawkins, a U.S. Forest Service fire chief, said he needed twice as many firefighters. "They're so fatigued that despite the fact the fire perimeter might become much larger, we're not willing to let the firefighters continue any further," he said. "They are too fatigued from three days of battle." Authorities believe the largest, nicknamed the Cedar Fire, was set by a lost hunter trying to signal res- cuers. The state forestry department issued Sergio Martinez, 33, a misde- meanor citation for setting an unau- thorized fire. WATER BREAK Continued from Page 2 the first time something like this has happened," Ricci said. The Media Union, which is usually open 24 hours, shut down at 9 p.m. last night. Pierpont Commons and sev- eral other buildings, including the Arts and Architecture, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and G.G. Dow buildings were also closed early. Engineering senior Brent Fiedler said he is more upset about other inconveniences relating to the water main break. "I was really pissed - there hasn't been coffee down in Pierpont Com- mons. It's not making me happy. In the Media Union all the restrooms are shut down except for the one on the bottom floors," Fielder added. TEXTBOO KS Continued from Page 1 book companies charge more domestically, they should drop those prices and "give up their extensive profit margins, especially on course packs," he said. "The University should set up bookstores so that products are sold at cost. Cheaper textbooks will help students financially and thus reduce the amount of aid the University has to provide for students," Jain said. But LSA freshman Megan Smith said students should not buy abroad. "Supporting the textbook company is in good spirits of corporate Amer- ica, and it's worth paying the extra $10 for textbooks." Managers at campus bookstores did not see overseas sales as impact- ing their business greatly. Steven Smith, textbook purchas- ing manager at Shaman Drum Bookshop, said he was "alarmed and fascinated at the differences in prices." He said publishers dictate prices and the bookstores themselves are not responsible for keeping prices high. Brown also said textbook compa- nies dictate the prices, and added that profit margins are very low on textbooks. He added that sometimes the books sold abroad sport a plain cover instead of a colorful one and contains pages printed in black and white instead of in color. Textbook costs here are also higher because the faculty often recommends that students use newer, more expensive editions instead of reusing old versions, Brown said. He blamed the text- book companies for having a dou- ble standard. Since many of them are based in other cities with Big Ten universi- ties, he thought of the pricing as "a conspiracy by other schools to bring us down." More recently, rising costs of col- lege tuition and textbooks have been a huge concern for many politicians. Recent statistics show that one in five students cannot afford to buy required college text- books. WASHINGTON Dems back down, approve EPA chief Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt won Senate confirmation yesterday to become head of the Environmental Protection Agency after Senate Democrats sharply critical of the Bush administration backed down in the face of an over- whelming Republican show of force. The lopsided 88-8 vote did not reflect the intense efforts by some Democrats to hold up the nomination as they attacked the Bush administration's environmental decisions. President Bush's nomination of Leavitt to head the 18,000-employee agency was helped by the Utah Repub- lican's three terms as governor, during which he forged personal relationships with many Senate Democrats, some of them former governors. "He's very good at bringing people together," Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) said moments before the vote in explaining why he was supporting Leavitt. WASHINGTON Fed leaves interest rate at record low The Federal Reserve left a key inter- est rate at a 45-year low yesterday and repeated its pledge to keep rates low for some time to come. Many economists predicted the cen- tral bank will wait until late 2004 A car bomb exploded yesterday west of Baghdad, killing at least four people a day after three dozen people died in a wave of suicide bombings in the Iraqi capital. U.S. officials said one of Baghdad's three deputy mayors was killed in a hit-and-run shooting. The latest attacks, including the killing Sunday of Deputy Mayor Faris Abdul Razzaq al-Assam, raised fears that a strengthened insurgency is increasingly tar- geting Iraqis who work with the U.S.-led coalition as well as international groups that had considered themselves at less risk than U.S. soldiers. Despite the escalation in attacks on Iraqis, American forces remained targets, with insurgents firing on a U.S. military base and convoy in two northern cities yesterday. In Baghdad, a rocket-propelled grenade attack killed one U.S. soldier and wounded six others while they were trying to destroy roadside bombs, the U.S. military said yesterday. The soldiers, from the 1st Armored Division, were attacked Monday, the same day a team of suicide car bombers devastated the Red Cross headquarters and three police stations, killing three dozen people and wounding more than 200. KABUL, Afghanistan Ambush kills 2 Americans in Afghanistan Two Americans working for the CIA have been killed in an ambush while tracking terrorists in Afghanistan, the agency said yesterday. The ambush Saturday happened on the same day and in the same region as a six- hour firefight in which U.S.-led coalition aircraft and Afghan militia killed 18 rebel fighters, the U.S. military reported from its headquarters in Afghanistan yesterday. Six Afghan militia soldiers were wounded in the fighting, but there were no coalition casualties, the military said. It was unclear whether the two incidents were linked, but the military did not explain why its account of the fighting was delayed by three days. In Washington, the CIA identified the two men as William Carlson, 43, of Southern Pines, N.C., and Christopher Glenn Mueller, 32, of San Diego. Both were veterans of military special operations forces, the CIA said. They were "tracking terrorists operating in the region" of Shkin, a village in eastern Afghanistan, when they were killed Saturday, the CIA said in a statement. The pair was working for the CIA's Directorate of Operations, which conducts clandestine intelligence-gathering and covert operations. lower and trigger a destabilizing bout of deflation. DORTON, Ky. Striking black gold is! black day for families When Rodger and Melissa Bentley noticed that the well at their Kentucky home was filled with a bubbling crude, they didn't run off to tell relatives they had struck it rich. That is because they found just enough of the oil to foul their only source of drinking water and enough natural gas to cause their well house to explode in flames. Such stories have become all too familiar in central Appalachia, where a myriad of holes have been drilled deep beneath the mountains to extract oil and natural gas. Some residents say the oil and gas have seeped into their water wells, ruining them and creating the risk of an explosion. before starting to raise rates, to give the economic recovery time to gain momentum. The Federal Reserve went out of its way in yesterday's brief statement to avoid surprises that might have caused financial markets to suspect that gath- ering signs of stronger growth might prompt the Fed to start raising interest rates in coming months. The central bank said its chief unease remained the remote threat that an already low inflation rate could fall 4 IN 11 00 RabbLit Run Circle Ann Arbor, MI 481 03 Phone (734) 998-1000 Fax (734) 998-0000 www.ced-concord.com Resort to the Lifestyle Yau Deserve. 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