Word: nevada
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...every attempt at liberalizing the laws has been successful. Last year, the pro-marijuana lobby tried to pass legalization laws in Nevada and Colorado; both failed. But this week's results in Denver heartened pro-pot activists: 57% of voters in the city approved "lowest law enforcement priority." Coming after a 2005 vote removing all penalties for possessing small amounts, Denver joins Alaska to become only the second place in the U.S. offering a free ride to users caught with less than an ounce. Denver's local and political culture has been amenable to such legal reorientations. Last summer, Denver...
...operators provided funding for a national gambling hotline, counseling centers, public-awareness campaigns and research. As a result, gambling addiction rates fell from 7% in 1991 to 3% in 1999. Gambling "is a lot like a ski slope," says Bo Bernhard, director of gambling research at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "A bunch of people race down and have a wonderful time, but inevitably, you'll have a proportion that falls. You have to have a hospital at the bottom of the hill...
...Hatch’s uncommon path to the bayou took him from his home state of Nevada, through Cambridge, down to Chile and onto an operating table before ending at LSU, where he’s played most the year as the Tigers’ third string quarterback. Hatch enrolled at Harvard in 2005 before toiling near the bottom of the Crimson depth chart...
...could say Hatch’s faith brought him to this stage. He was raised a Mormon in the Church of Latter Day Saints in Henderson, the second-largest city in Nevada...
...show presents 100 works by 22 artists, including Richard Hamilton, Andy Warhol, Malcolm Morley and Gerhard Richter. Subjects range from Nevada's bordellos to London's tabloid media, but the strongest works treat some of recent memory's most haunting events. Richter's deliberately blurred Woman with Umbrella depicts Jacqueline Kennedy grieving after her husband's assassination, while Warhol's Big Electric Chair is a silkscreen rendering of the Sing Sing hot seat where convicted spies Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed...