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Late March is not usually the time for fire bans but overly dry and windy conditions have many counties on high alert.

The Affordable Care Act turns a year old this week. While there are calls to repeal it, many have benefited from it including a Colorado bartender that insurers refused to cover.

Nearly 50 provisions of the national healthcare reform law have taken effect. Here is a look at the top provisions impacting consumers.

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STEVE INSKEEP, host:

Good morning. I'm Steve Inskeep.

This is a time of momentous news - a tsunami, a war, and also in San Antonio inflation in the price of burritos. A man walked into Taco Bell and ordered seven Beefy Crunch Burritos and discovered the price had gone from $.99 to a buck forty-nine. OK. Seven burritos, an extra fifty cents each, it was just too much. The man fired an air gun at an employee and when police chased him, he fired an assault rifle before being subdued.

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STEVE INSKEEP, host:

Good morning. I'm Steve Inskeep.

Snow leopards are an endangered species native to Asia. They're also one of the official mascots of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia. So when Russian scientists found one of the rare cats earlier this month, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin took the time to visit him over the weekend. The World Wildlife Fund has said the leopard should be released into the wild, which it was, right after Putin and the cameras took their leave.