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To be considered a true Camembert, the French cheese must be made in Normandy, from the milk of Norman cows. But in the village of Camembert itself, only one man makes the cheese in the traditional way.

Hurricane Wilma settles over Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, battering beach resorts for more than 24 hours with 100 mph winds and drenching rains. The slow pace of the powerful storm increases its danger to the region.

Bill Siemers lost his wife to cancer nine days before Hurricane Katrina struck. But instead of closing the New Orleans coffee-roasting company they ran together for a dozen years, he's investing even more in the business. For the 59-year-old widower, it's an enormous gamble.

A New Jersey jury has ruled in favor of drugmaker Merck in a major case testing whether the company properly warned consumers about the risks of using its painkiller drug Vioxx. The case was brought by an Idaho man who claimed his intermittent use of Vioxx caused his heart attack four years ago.

Poet Billy Collins says the central theme of poetry is death. He manages to ruminate on this in a manner both whimsical and poignant in his latest collection, The Trouble with Poetry: And Other Poems.

FarmersOnly.com, an online dating service that started last spring, is designed for farmers but open to anyone. It features profiles of more than 1,800 people from around the country. Jerry Miller, who is not a farmer, created the site after listening to a divorced farmer describe her dating dilemmas.

Rep. Richard Pombo (R-CA) has campaigned for years against the Endangered Species Act. The House of Representatives recently approved a rewrite of the law that would make it more friendly to landowners. The roots of Pombo's passion to protect private property lie in the ranch town where he grew up.

At least 22 people are dead after Sunday's tornado, the deadliest twister to hit Indiana in more than three decades. Jonathan Weinzapfel is mayor of Evansville Ind., one of the communities hit by the deadly tornado. He discusses the latest in recovery efforts.

It is less than three months before the Olympic Winter Games in Turin, Italy, and Patrick Quinn is closer than he has ever been to achieving his Olympic dream. He hopes to represent the U.S. in doubles luge at the Games.

People think of Las Vegas as Sin City, a version of Disneyland, or maybe a little of both. Director Stephen Ives talks about Las Vegas: An Unconventional History, his new PBS documentary.