Winter storm closes interstate in Colorado

Winter storm closesinterstate in Colorado
DENVER -- A powerful storm that dropped up to 20 inches of snow in parts of Colorado knocked out power Monday to thousands of people, closed a major stretch of a major highway and trigged rock slides in the foothills.
A 60-year-old Denver woman died after a tree limb snapped off and struck her, while an elderly man who got lost while snowshoeing was found safe after a night outdoors.
Authorities said 150 miles of westbound Interstate 70 was closed from the Kansas line to Denver. The entire highway was closed for the 80 miles between Denver and Limon, where truck stop parking lots were overflowing.
NYC police announceeasing of subway security
NEW YORK -- After four days on high alert, police announced Monday that they were scaling back a subway security crackdown prompted by a report of an Al-Qaida plot to blow up trains.
Authorities said the arrest and interrogation of three suspects by U.S. forces in Iraq had so far produced no information to corroborate the report.
"Things were moving in the right direction," Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly told reporters at the Columbus Day Parade. "We're going to slowly reduce our coverage to what it was pre-Oct. 6."
Israeli, American share2005 economics Nobel
STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- A pair of game theorists who defined chess-like strategies in politics and business that can be applied to arms races, price wars and actual warfare won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences on Monday.
Israeli-American Robert J. Aumann and U.S. citizen Thomas C. Schelling won the award for research on game theory, a branch of applied mathematics that uses models to study interactions between countries, businesses or people.
The theory, which was devised in 1944 by John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern, is often used in a political or military context to explain conflicts between countries but has been of late used to map trends in the business world, ranging from how cartels set prices to how companies can better sell their goods and services in new markets.
Aumann, 75, and Schelling, 84, who know each other but have never worked together, were cited by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for helping explain "economic conflicts such as price wars and trade wars, as well as why some communities are more successful than others in managing common-pool resources."
U.S. ends 60-year stayat Rhein-Main Air Base
FRANKFURT, Germany -- The United States formally handed Rhein-Main Air Base over to the German government Monday, ending a 60-year stay during which the sprawling field was a hub of activity for American forces facing Soviet bloc troops and Mideast tensions.
Gen. Robert Foglesong, commander of the U.S. Air Force in Europe, called it "a grand old base with a lot of history," but said moving operations to other bases in Germany was necessary to save money.
Rhein-Main saw a steady stream of planes fly supplies to West Berliners in the late 1940s to break the Soviet blockade of the city. A decade later, it bade Elvis Presley farewell after his Army service, and still later welcomed American hostages from Iran and wounded U.S. forces returning from the Middle East.
Millionaire scientist endsvisit to outer space
ARKALYK, Kazakhstan -- The seven-day space sojourn of an American millionaire scientist came to a close as he and a Russian-American crew undocked from the international space station and sped back to Earth, landing early Tuesday on the windswept steppes of Kazakhstan.
The bone-jarring descent brought an end to Gregory Olsen's space station visit, the third trip by a private citizen to the orbiting laboratory.
The Soyuz spacecraft that carried them covered the approximately 250 miles from the station to Earth in 31/2 hours.
Olsen, American astronaut William McArthur and Russian cosmonaut Valery Tokarev blasted off from the Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan on Oct. 1 and docked with the space station two days later.
Associated Press