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Washington, D.C. visitors coming for the presidential inaugural have a host of luxury hotel packages to choose from. Vivian Deuschl of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel talks with NPR's Steve Inskeep about some extravagant offerings.

Part 1: Almost a Psychopath/Halden PrisonYou may have heard the attention-grabbing statistic that that 10% of people working on Wall Street are…

The Folk Show's listing of open mics, dances and shows in and around our listening area.

About 30 people were missing in the Abruzzo region of Italy after an avalanche, apparently triggered by earthquakes Wednesday, covered a multistory mountain hotel in snow.

An audio postcard from Charlie Mayer. Some students at Swarthmore College have taken their drumming class (Rhythmic Analysis) to the forest behind the school, to welcome the new season with sound. (2:00) (IN S

The cottontail rabbit used to be a common sight among the oak forests and mountain trails of New England. No more. NPR News correspondent John Nielsen reports on a request by conservationists to put what once was thought to be the most procreatively successful American animal on the endangered species list.

Howard Berkes reports on the fires that continue torage in the western states. Millions of acres of forest and brush have been blackened, and politicians have begun pointing fingers at the Clinton Administration for failing to do enough to prevent the blazes.

Charles Ray of South Dakota Public Radio reports South Dakota is the latest state to be hit with wide scale forest fires. Some of the outbreaks are under investigation as possible arson attacks.

Host Jacki Lyden speaks with fire fighter Tim Duck about the fires in the West. Duck has been fighting the fires in the Salmon Challis National Forest in Idaho where U.S. Marines have recently joined the battle.

Jacki talks with George Hudler, professor of Plant Pathology at Cornell University, about a giant fungus. The fungus, which looks like a giant mushroom, is spreading across a forest in Eastern Oregon. It is thought to be the largest living organism in the world.