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55-64	November 2006 Article It's morning in Nevada: On the campaign trail in post-Bush America By Dave Hickey SEE ALSO: Titus, A. Costandina; Career in Nevada politics; 2001-; Nevada; Political candidates; Women politicians PDF IMAGES
24	January 2006 Readings/Article Cleaving Las Vegas SEE ALSO: Alternatives to imprisonment; Corporal punishment; Graffiti; Interviews; Las Vegas; Las Vegas (Nev.); Nevada; Goodman, Oscar Baylin PDF IMAGES
56-68	June 2005 Article Buried suns: The past and possible future of America's nuclear-testing program By David Samuels SEE ALSO: Career in nuclear testing; Huckabee, Fred; Smith, J.L.; Magruder, Jim; Krenzien, Larry; Nevada; Nuclear weapons; Washington, Roma B.; Testing; Flangas, William Gus PDF IMAGES
62-70	October 2004 Article Dying for dollars: Are you ready for the Iraqi gold rush? By Bryan Mealer SEE ALSO: Congresses and conventions; Independent contractors; Iraq; Iraq War, 2003-; Las Vegas; Nevada PDF IMAGES
20-22	April 2004 Readings/Article The big one By Paul Schollmeier SEE ALSO: Nevada; Radioactive waste sites; Signs and symbols; Yucca Mountain PDF TEXT IMAGES
55-64	August 2002 Article What is poetry? And does it pay? By Jake Silverstein SEE ALSO: Career in poetry competitions; Competitions; Silverstein, Jake; Nevada; Oral interpretation of poetry; Reno; Swindlers and swindling PDF IMAGES
50-57	March 2002 Article My undertaker, my pimp: Looking for grace in a desert brothel By Jay Kirk SEE ALSO: Kirk, Jay; Journeys—Nevada—Beatty; Nevada; Prostitution; Sex (Psychology) PDF IMAGES
39-57	December 2000 Article Fortune's smile: Betting big at the World Series of Poker By James McManus SEE ALSO: Career as poker player; Gambling; McManus, James; Las Vegas; Nevada; Poker; Poker players PDF IMAGES
37-52	July 1997 Article Bringing down the house: An explosion in Las Vegas plays as performance art By David Samuels SEE ALSO: Career in wrecking industry; Loiseaux, Doug; Explosions; Las Vegas; Loiseaux, Mark; Nevada; Sands Hotel and Casino (Las Vegas, Nev.); Wrecking PDF IMAGES
58-69	November 1993 Article Can an ape tell a joke? Learning from a Las Vegas orangutan act By Vicki Hearne SEE ALSO: Animal trainers; Animal training; Berosini, Bobby; Career as animal trainer; Entertainers; Las Vegas; Nevada; Orangutan; Training; Working animals PDF IMAGES
55-64	November 1992 Article No place like home By David Guterson SEE ALSO: Guterson, David; Journeys—Nevada—Green Valley; Nevada; Planned communities; Real estate development PDF IMAGES
19-22	March 1992 Readings/Article How to sell a nuclear dump SEE ALSO: Nevada; Nuclear industry; Public Relations; Radioactive waste sites PDF IMAGES
23-24	February 1991 Readings/Article A bordello starter kit SEE ALSO: Auctions; Equipment and supplies; Nevada; Prostitution PDF IMAGES
21-22	May 1989 Readings/Article Prostitution goes public SEE ALSO: Nevada; Prostitution PDF IMAGES
59-63	October 1988 Article In my backyard: A visit to the proposed national nuclear waste repository By William Kittredge SEE ALSO: Journeys—Nevada—Yucca Mountain; Nevada; Radioactive waste sites; Kittredge, William; Yucca Mountain PDF IMAGES
32-43	June 1982 Article The legend of Hank Greenspun By Joseph Dalton SEE ALSO: Adversaries; Army-McCarthy Controversy, 1954; Career in newspaper publishing; Friends and associates; Greenspun, Hank; Hughes, Howard; Illegal arms transfers; Israel; Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949; McCarthy, Joseph; Las Vegas; Las Vegas (Nev.); Nevada; McCarran, Pat; Publishers and publishing PDF IMAGES
30-31	February 1978 Article A handful of dust: The estate of the late Howard Hughes By William Bates SEE ALSO: Death and burial; Decedents' estates; Hughes, Howard; Nevada; Rich people PDF IMAGES
88-91	February 1971 Article Reflections of a gilded cage By R.C. Padden SEE ALSO: Casinos; Gamblers; Las Vegas; Nevada PDF IMAGES
28-36	November 1969 Performing arts/Article Absolutely free By Margot Hentoff SEE ALSO: Presley, Elvis; Journeys—Nevada—Las Vegas; Las Vegas; Las Vegas (Nev.); Hentoff, Margot; Music critics; Nevada; Performances PDF IMAGES
35-41	January 1962 Article The new gambling king and the social scientists By Keith Monroe SEE ALSO: Career as casino owner; Gamblers; Gambling; Nevada; Tahoe, Lake; Harrah, William PDF IMAGES
80-82	February 1955 After hours/Article Pleasure palaces By Dick Pearce SEE ALSO: Entertainers; Gambling; Las Vegas; Las Vegas (Nev.); Nevada; Tourist trade PDF IMAGES
89-95	November 1950 Article McCarran, lone wolf of the Senate By Alfred Steinberg SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. senator; Leadership; Nevada; McCarran, Pat; United States. Congress. Senate PDF IMAGES
107	October 1950 Article Virginia City—deviltry and enterprise By J. Ross (John Ross) Browne SEE ALSO: Nevada; Silver mines and mining; Virginia City (Nev.) PDF IMAGES
119	October 1950 Article Geographical survey in the Sierras By William H. (William Henry) Rideing SEE ALSO: Nevada; Sierra Nevada; Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.); Surveying; Tahoe, Lake PDF IMAGES
608-613	May 1941 Article The water's in! By Juanita Brooks SEE ALSO: Childhood and youth; Floods; Irrigation; Brooks, Juanita; Nevada; Water conservation; Water-supply PDF IMAGES
113-121	June 1935 Article Building the big dam By Theodore Harold White SEE ALSO: Arizona; Construction workers; Dams; Nevada PDF IMAGES
47-59	June 1925 Article Reno By Katharine Fullerton Gerould SEE ALSO: Divorce; Journeys—Nevada—Reno; Gerould, Katharine Fullerton; Mines and mineral resources; Nevada; Reno; Reno (Nev.) PDF IMAGES
737-751	April 1912 Article Mark Twain: Some chapters from an extraordinary life (sixth paper) By Albert Bigelow Paine SEE ALSO: Fuller, Benjamin Franklin; Biography; Cutter, Bloodgood H. (Bloodgood Haviland); Humorists, American; Lectures and lecturing; Twain, Mark; Nevada; Palestine; Portraits; Voyages around the world PDF IMAGES
583-597	March 1912 Article Mark Twain: Some chapters from an extraordinary life (fifth paper) By Albert Bigelow Paine SEE ALSO: Ward, Artemus; Biography; Harte, Bret; Webb, Charles Henry; Humorists, American; Mackay, John William; Twain, Mark; Nevada; Portraits; Reporters and reporting; San Francisco PDF IMAGES
419-433	February 1912 Article Mark Twain: Some chapters from an extraordinary life (fourth paper) By Albert Bigelow Paine SEE ALSO: Biography; De Quille, Dan; Humorists, American; Goodman, Joe; Twain, Mark; Miners; Nevada; Clemens, Orion; Portraits; Reporters and reporting; Gillis, Steve PDF IMAGES
215-228	January 1912 Article Mark Twain: Some chapters from an extraordinary life (third paper) By Albert Bigelow Paine SEE ALSO: Biography; Clemens, Henry; Bixby, Horace; Humorists, American; Twain, Mark; Miners; Mississippi River; Nevada; Moffett, Pamela Clemens; Pilots and pilotage; Portraits PDF IMAGES
719-728	April 1905 Article When Mammon makes a camp By Philip Verrill Mighels SEE ALSO: Death Valley; Gold miners; Gold mines and mining; Mining camps; Nevada PDF IMAGES
797	April 1879 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Father and child; Gold miners; Nevada PDF IMAGES
798	April 1878 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Nevada; Virginia City PDF IMAGES
65-76	June 1877 Article The Wheeler survey in Nevada By William H. (William Henry) Rideing SEE ALSO: Career in surveying; Wheeler, George M.; Nevada; Surveying PDF IMAGES
476	August 1876 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Affray; Nevada; Virginia City PDF IMAGES
311	January 1876 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Austin; Church music; Nevada; Organs PDF IMAGES
758	October 1874 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Grammar; Miners; Nevada PDF IMAGES
150	June 1874 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Corporal punishment; Nevada PDF IMAGES
640	March 1873 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Conduct of court proceedings; Hand-to-hand fighting; Nevada PDF IMAGES
156	December 1872 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Frontier and pioneer life; Nevada; Violent deaths PDF IMAGES
949	November 1871 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Euphemism; Hanging; Nevada PDF IMAGES
798	October 1871 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Last words; Nevada; Teamsters; Virginia City PDF IMAGES
798-799	October 1871 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Donkeys; Methodist Church; Nevada; Virginia City PDF IMAGES
799	October 1871 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Nevada; Pastoral theology; Virginia City PDF IMAGES
799	October 1871 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Nevada; Virginia City PDF IMAGES
799	October 1871 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Jews; Nevada; Virginia City PDF IMAGES
477	August 1871 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Horse stealing; Nevada; Witnesses PDF IMAGES
949	November 1870 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Judicial discretion; Justices of the peace; Nevada; Trials (Homicide) PDF IMAGES
951	November 1870 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Carson City; Gambling; Nevada; Roosters PDF IMAGES
952	November 1870 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Chinese Americans; Young, John W.; Journeys—West (U.S.); Monkeys; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Nevada; Salt Lake City; Utah PDF IMAGES
155	December 1869 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Justices of the peace; Latin language; Law Latin; Nevada PDF IMAGES
465-475	September 1869 Article Photographs from the high Rockies By John Samson SEE ALSO: Nevada; Photographers; Rocky Mountains PDF IMAGES
302	July 1869 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Criminals; Nevada; Verdicts PDF IMAGES
719-720	April 1869 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Carson City; Hotels; Nevada PDF IMAGES
569	March 1869 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Jury; Justices of the peace; Nevada PDF IMAGES
569	March 1869 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Miners; Nevada PDF IMAGES
284	July 1868 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Flags; Nevada PDF IMAGES
140-141	June 1868 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Johnson, Andrew; Humor; Nevada PDF IMAGES
678	October 1867 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Nevada; Widows PDF IMAGES
543-544	September 1867 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Nevada PDF IMAGES
542	September 1866 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Nevada PDF IMAGES
407	August 1866 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Nevada; Paiute Indians PDF IMAGES
267	July 1866 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Fuelwood; Nevada PDF IMAGES
272	July 1866 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Nevada PDF IMAGES
26-44	June 1866 Article The Reese River Country By J. Ross (John Ross) Browne SEE ALSO: Mineral industries; Nevada PDF IMAGES
134	June 1866 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Austin; Nevada PDF IMAGES
134	June 1866 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Austin; Nevada PDF IMAGES
700-709	November 1865 Article The Walker River country By J. Ross (John Ross) Browne SEE ALSO: Iron mines and mining; Browne, J. Ross (John Ross); Journeys—Nevada; Nevada PDF IMAGES
274-284	August 1865 Article A trip to Bodie Bluff and the Dead Sea of the West (first paper) By J. Ross (John Ross) Browne SEE ALSO: Bodie Bluff (Calif.); Gold mines and mining; Browne, J. Ross (John Ross); Journeys—California; Mono Lake (Calif.); Nevada; Silver mines and mining PDF IMAGES
317-323	August 1865 Article Nevada By Thomas Fitch SEE ALSO: Nevada; Silver mines and mining; Speculation; Statehood (American politics) PDF IMAGES
151-161	July 1865 Article Washoe revisited (third paper) By J. Ross (John Ross) Browne SEE ALSO: Comstock Lode (Nev.); Browne, J. Ross (John Ross); Journeys—Nevada; Nevada; Silver mines and mining; Virginia City (Nev.) PDF IMAGES
268	July 1865 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Control; Nevada PDF IMAGES
268-269	July 1865 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Militia; Nevada; Paiute Indians; Wars PDF IMAGES
1-12	June 1865 Article Washoe revisited (second paper) By J. Ross (John Ross) Browne SEE ALSO: Comstock Lode (Nev.); Browne, J. Ross (John Ross); Journeys—Virginia City (Nev.); Nevada; Silver mines and mining; Virginia City (Nev.) PDF IMAGES
681-696	May 1865 Article Washoe revisited (first paper) By J. Ross (John Ross) Browne SEE ALSO: Comstock Lode (Nev.); Browne, J. Ross (John Ross); Journeys—Nevada; Nevada; Silver miners; Silver mines and mining PDF IMAGES
543	March 1865 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Nevada PDF IMAGES
289-305	February 1861 Article A peep at Washoe (third paper) By J. Ross (John Ross) Browne SEE ALSO: Comstock Lode (Nev.); Browne, J. Ross (John Ross); Journeys—Carson River Valley (Nev.); Journeys—Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.); Nevada; Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.); Silver miners; Silver mines and mining PDF IMAGES
145-162	January 1861 Article A peep at Washoe (second paper) By J. Ross (John Ross) Browne SEE ALSO: Comstock Lode (Nev.); Gold mines and mining; Browne, J. Ross (John Ross); Journeys—Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.); Nevada; Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.); Silver mines and mining; Virginia City (Nev.) PDF IMAGES
1-17	December 1860 Article A peep at Washoe ([first paper]) By J. Ross (John Ross) Browne SEE ALSO: Comstock Lode (Nev.); Nevada; Silver miners; Silver mines and mining PDF IMAGES

Oct 2006	Percentage change since 1990 in the number of elderly Americans: +16 Percentage change in Nevada: +106	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Census Bureau
Nov 2003	Age in years of a Nevada bristlecone when the U.S. Forest Service let a graduate student cut it down in 1964: 4,950	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service
Aug 2003	Rank of Las Vegas among the top destinations of industry-funded trips that FCC officials have taken since 1995: 1	Harper's Index Source: The Center for Public Integrity (Washington)
Jul 2003	Estimated amount spent on lap dances in Las Vegas each year: $25,000,000	Harper's Index Source: Las Vegas Dancers Alliance
Jul 2003	Total child support that went unpaid in Clark County, Nevada, in the last year: $63,100,000	Harper's Index Source: Nevada Child Support Enforcement Program (Carson City)
Sep 2002	Estimated portion of all U.S. nuclear waste that Nevada's Yucca Mountain dumpsite will hold when it is full in 2046: 3/5	Harper's Index Source: Public Citizen (Washington)
Aug 2002	Price a Las Vegas filmmaker charges through his website for a film of homeless men fighting each other: $19.95	Harper's Index Source: Extreme Entertainment (Las Vegas)
Jul 2002	Number of requests Nevada has received since January for a new license-plate design featuring a mushroom cloud: 322	Harper's Index Source: Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles (Carson City)
Apr 2002	Number of visitors to a Las Vegas consumer-electronics show last winter who opted to be shot with a stun gun: 120	Harper's Index Source: Taser International (Scottsdale, Ariz.)
Mar 2002	Number of Las Vegas strip clubs purchased on September 10 by a Stanford medical-school professor: 3	Harper's Index Source: Mark Nicoletti, attorney to Prof. Simon Sterzer (Las Vegas)
May 2001	Minimum number of Las Vegas casinos that use face-recognition technology to identify known card cheats: 25	Harper's Index Source: Viisage Technology (Littleton, Mass.)
May 2000	Ratio of the number of hotel rooms planned for Las Vegas's Venetian Hotel to all the hotel rooms in Venice: 1:1	Harper's Index Source: The Venetian (Las Vegas, Nev.)/Associazione Veneziana Albergatori (Venice)

February 23, 2007	After widespread opposition from residents of Utah and Nevada, the Pentagon canceled its plan to test a large non-nuclear bomb as part of Operation Divine Strake.	Weekly Review By Claire Gutierrez Source: Washington Post
January 1, 2007	Concerns about terrorism prompted Governor Jim Gibbons of Nevada to take his oath shortly after midnight on New Year's despite the admitted absence of any known threat.	Weekly Review By Miriam Markowitz Source: AP via San Diego Union-Tribune
October 19, 2006	Las Vegas magnate Steve Wynn elbowed a hole through Picasso's “Le Reve,” a painting he had just sold for a record $139 million.	Weekly Review By Gemma Sieff Source: BBC
August 29, 2006	Warren Steed Jeffs, who reportedly has 80 wives and 250 children and serves as the leader of a polygamist Mormon sect, was arrested in Nevada on suspicion of arranging marriages between underage girls and older men.	Weekly Review By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi Source: AP via New York Times
March 29, 2006	A Las Vegas ambulance company was using a special extra-large ambulance to deal with extremely obese patients; the company said that it had served 75 patients weighing over 600 pounds in the last 6 months.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: WBAY.com
December 18, 2005	Senator Harry Reid said the current U.S. Congress was “the most corrupt in history.”	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: Reuters
November 25, 2005	A Nevada man was arrested for stealing $200,000 worth of Legos.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: MSNBC/AP
November 3, 2005	The mayor of Las Vegas called for vandals who deface freeways to have their thumbs cut off on TV. “They would get a trial first,” he offered.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: The Guardian
October 27, 2005	Strange, vibrating lights were seen in the skies above California and Nevada.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: SF Gate
August 9, 2005	The Environmental Protection Agency was working on ways to limit the radioactivity of the planned Yucca Mountain, Nevada, nuclear-waste dump for the next 1 million years.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: FOX News
July 19, 2005	Heidi Fleiss was planning to open a brothel in Nevada. “I'm a perfect example of the fact that prison does work,” she said. “I have served my time, now will do my crime legally.”	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: MSNBC Gossip
June 9, 2005	Voters in Nevada elected a former stripper to be a judge.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: AP
May 7, 2005	Nevada Senator Harry Reid said Bush was a loser.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: The Washington Post
April 29, 2005	A flock of fifty sheep with partially human organs was grazing outside of Las Vegas.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: AP
March 3, 2005	Representative Jim Gibbons of Nevada called for liberals to be used as human shields in Iraq; he later apologized for plagiarizing his remarks.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: Reno Gazette-Journal
March 2, 2005	Nevada announced that it would cost $2 billion to pipe water from rural Nevada to Las Vegas.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: New York Times
November 7, 2004	Voters in Montana approved the use of medical marijuana; they also approved a "right to hunt" amendment. Florida and Nevada raised the states' minimum wage.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: New York Times
October 15, 2004	Officials in Oregon and Nevada were investigating claims that Republicans destroyed Democratic voter-registration forms.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: New York Times
July 10, 2004	A federal appeals court ruled that the government's standards for the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear-waste dump in Nevada are insufficient because they extend for only 10,000 years.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: New York Times
December 20, 2003	It was reported that the omnibus spending bill passed by the House of Representatives this month includes $23 billion in "earmarks" such as $50 million for an indoor rain forest in Iowa and $225,000 to repair a swimming pool in Sparks, Nevada. Jim Gibbons, a Republican representative, explained that the funding came about because he felt guilty for clogging up that pool with tadpoles when he was a boy. "Look," Gibbons said in defense of his earmark, "this is the standard practice the United States Congress has had for decades." Gibbons said he did not view such projects "as pork."	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: New York Times

828-837	May 1905 Fiction A little pioneer By Philip Verrill Mighels SEE ALSO: Gold miners; Nevada; Orphans PDF IMAGES
757	October 1874 Editor's drawer/Fiction Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Butter; Nevada; Tall tales PDF IMAGES

	December 2000 Photo [Cover art] By Sam Morris (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Gamblers; Las Vegas; Money; Nevada; Poker players PDF IMAGES
24	December 1998 Readings/Photo Nevada By Spencer Tunick (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Deserts; Nevada; Nudity PDF IMAGES
17	July 1998 Readings/Photo Boy scouts and Fremont's Pyramid, Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation, Nevada By Richard Misrach (Photog.) SEE ALSO: The Boy Scouts; Nevada PDF IMAGES
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