Santa Fe New Mexican, Oct. 11, 2014

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Stocks close worst week since 2012

Luján, Byrd face Round 2 in House race

Friday’s slow decline was led by technology stocks. PAGE A-2

Starter pistol was weapon at Ortiz

3rd District race considered safe for Dems; most eyes on Congressman Pearce, Lara battle in 2nd District

Few details released about incident in school lockdown. PAGE A-7

By Daniel J. Chacón The New Mexican

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The race in New Mexico’s 3rd Congressional District is a rematch from two years ago between incumbent

Democrat Ben Ray Luján and Republican challenger Jeff Byrd. Luján, of Nambé, is seeking a fourth term to represent Northern New Mexico in Congress. He said he has extensively traveled the district, which

includes all or part of 16 counties and takes eight and a half hours to drive across, and he has worked on scores of constituent issues that don’t make the news. “You just do your best to represent everyone and be available,” said Luján, 42, the son of the late Ben Luján, who

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Tools help scientists predict post-wildfire erosion risks

India’s Kailash Satyarthi, left, and Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for risking their lives to fight for children’s rights. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Pakistan, India sent message by Nobel Prize win

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Muslim, Hindu in feuding nations get Peace honor

GOP challenger backs lower minimum wage for people under 26

By Katy Daigle The Associated Press

By Milan Simonich

NEW DELHI — One is Muslim, the other Hindu. One a Pakistani, the other Indian. One a school girl just starting out in life, the other a man with decades of experience. Despite their many differences, 17-year-old Malala Yousafzai and 60-year-old Kailash Satyarthi will be forever linked — co-winners of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, honored for risking their lives for the rights of children to education and to lives free of abuse. Their selection was widely acclaimed, their heroism undeniable. But something more was at work here: In awarding the prize Friday, the Nobel Committee also sent a blunt message to the rival nations of India and Pakistan that if two of their citizens can work for a common goal, their governments too could do better in finding common ground. The two nations have almost defined themselves by their staunch opposition to one another. They became enemies almost instantly upon gaining independence in 1947 from imperial Britain, and have since fought three full-scale wars over various issues, including competing claims to the Himalayan region of Kashmir that sits between them. Just this week, their troops have hurled

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Josh Ingersoll and Rudy Armijo, both firefighters with the Pecos Canyon Volunteer Fire Department, try to free up an ATV from the ash and mud as a result of erosion caused by flooding after the Tres Lagunas Fire at Bush Ranch in the Pecos Canyon in July 2013. The canyon experienced flash flooding that brought debris and ash down with it. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/NEW MEXICAN FILE PHOTO

Debris in flash floods can be most catastrophic of post-blaze threats By Susan Montoya Bryan The Associated Press

ALBUQUERQUE t’s nearly impossible to predict when and where the next major wildfire will be and whether an ill-timed thunderstorm could result in tons of ash and charred debris being washed down the bare mountainsides once the flames are out. But scientists working in New Mexico have developed a new method for sizing up which chunks of overgrown forest are most at risk of burning and sending waves of debris toward communities and into key areas that provide sources of drinking water.

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The research by the U.S. Geological Survey and The Nature Conservancy focuses on a pair of mountain ranges bordering New Mexico’s most populated area, but the scientists said their method can be applied to landscapes around the West. “It takes it up a notch,” Anne Tillery, a USGS scientist in Albuquerque, said of land managers’ ability to make predictions with the new method. The work by Tillery and

Please see RISKS Page A-4 A charred Los Alamos Canyon winds its way up to the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2000.

By Roberto A. Ferdman The Washington Post

WASHINGTON — America’s long-held infatuation with hard work might be eating into its understanding of inequality. A quarter of the country believes the most important reason inequality exists is that some people (ahem, the rich) work harder than other

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people (the poor), according to a new report by the Pew Research Center. The proportion of Americans who blame the underprivileged’s work ethic for inequality is surprising because it’s unusual. Of the 44 countries included in Pew’s survey, only two —England and Uganda — were equally as unimpressed with the poor’s working habits, and only Nicaragua was found to have a greater percentage of people (31 percentage) who hold that view. In Germany, Israel and Italy, by com-

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parison, only 10 percent, 7 percent and 3 percent of the population, respectively, said the main reason an income gap persists is because some people work harder than others. And worldwide, only 10 percent of people blamed effort for the inequality. Why so many Americans think the poor simply aren’t working hard enough is unclear. It’s not because they’re working less, or inflexible about their work

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Democratic U.S. Sen. Tom Udall on Friday released a tape recording in which his election opponent purportedly says he wants to abolish the minimum wage for people under 26. The three-minute recording, Udall’s staff said, is of Republican Senate candidate Allen Weh speaking to a business group. Now Udall has turned the recording into a television advertisement that will begin airing as soon as Saturday. Weh, who was campaigning Friday night in Socorro with U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer of Nebraska, did not respond to a series of written questions about the ad, including whether the recording was accurate. But he sent a statement saying people under 26 should be able to work for less than the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. Udall’s ad is built around two recorded statements attributed to Weh when he spoke Sept. 24 at the Economic Forum of Albuquerque. A female narrator asks if viewers remember their first real job. Then she says, “Here’s what multimillionaire Allen Weh thinks you’re worth.” Weh’s voice takes over as he says, “no minimum wage below the age

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1 in 4 say poor Americans are lazy Most nations differ with U.S. view of work ethic

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Clinton papers on Lewinsky released Documents show how staff tried to manage the scandal. PAGE A-12

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James Kelly Contemporary hosts a group show of works by artists with mental illness as part of Mental Illness Awareness Week; reception 4 to 6 p.m., 1611 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1601. More events in Calendar, A-2 and Fridays in Pasatiempo

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Obituary Peggy Ann Armijo Ruiz, Oct. 8 PAGE A-10

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