Word: nevada
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...town's layout: colonial mansions for whites in the center, tin shacks for coloreds and blacks on the outskirts. And there's a lingering antipathy toward the British: you still hear tales of Afrikaners refusing to serve Anglos at remote Karoo gas stations. But that Twilight Zone feel - Nevada meets the Deep South - is part of the fascination of this area of South Africa...
...this campaign's crop of staffers, all eyes are on January 3, after which most of them will pack up and move on - maybe to South Carolina, Nevada, Florida or Michigan. Right now, they're busy organizing campaign events and flushing out potential supporters; schooling themselves and voters on the intricacies of caucus math; coaxing Iowans to leave their comfy homes on a winter night to caucus in a school gym or church basement...
That, of course, is exactly what critics say about the drug industry today. Nevada has sued a dozen drug companies for hiking the average wholesale prices (AWP), which the U.S. government uses to determine what it pays for drugs, and using the extra money to pay commissions to doctors who prescribe their products. Activists and state attorneys general say the AWP, set by the companies, rarely reflects the prices charged to HMOs and other drug wholesalers. "What we say is that AWP stands for 'ain't what's paid,'" says Ahaviah Glaser, director of the Prescription Access Litigation Project...
...dabbled in oil and gas, but lost heavily when energy prices collapsed in 1982. Munk turned to gold, he says, only when political unrest in South Africa during the 1980s presented what he saw as an irresistible opportunity. Hunting for safe neighborhoods to mine, he settled on the northern Nevada desert and set about convincing investors that this was the time to gamble on North American gold. Those who believed him were soon rewarded. Goldstrike mine, near the town of Elko, has become the largest mine outside South Africa...
...states, incarceration still awaits even first-time offenders possessing small amounts of marijuana. In Connecticut, possessing a "usable amount" is punishable by a year in jail and $1,000 fine. Nevada sends its pot users - possessing any amount - into rehab or treatment and imposes a $600 fee. Federal law calls for a year in jail and $1,000 for anyone caught with any amount. The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) says there are 65,000-85,000 people incarcerated in this country for cannabis-related reasons...