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...read this, one out of every 140 U.S. citizens is behind bars. More people live in prison than in each of the following states: West Virginia, New Mexico, Nevada, Nebraska, Maine, Idaho, Hawaii, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Montana, South Dakota, Delaware, North Dakota, Alaska, Vermont, and Wyoming...
...happens, scientists have stumbled on several ways to do just that. When the lake behind the Hoover Dam was first filled, it triggered quakes in a region that had been seismically inactive. Nuclear-weapons designers found that they were also generating quakes at the Nevada Test Site when they detonated underground blasts. But the real breakthrough came when the U.S. Army began pumping liquid wastes into the ground near Denver at their Rocky Mountain Arsenal and discovered that the pumping was setting off tiny artificial quakes. Scientists studying the phenomenon found that the fluids were lubricating the fault boundaries, allowing...
...Deep Springs College, you take a one-way bus from Las Vegas that drops you off in the parking lot of the Cottontail Ranch, a brothel in Lida Junction, Nevada...
...ride for hours through the barren Nevada desert. When the Deep Springs van picks you up in Lida Junction, it climbs over the easternmost peaks of the Sierra Nevada, into California, and descends into the Deep Springs Valley, population 42--the students and faculty of the college, plus a few hundred head of cattle...
...surprise bid set up a clash of Strip titans and stunned gaming-industry observers. Steve Wynn cave to Kirk Kerkorian? No way. Besides, Nevada law frowns on unfriendly corporate takeovers--and even a Kerkorian insider admits, "Wynn has a grade-A defense." Perhaps to get around that, MGM Grand called its offer friendly, at least for now. Still, Kerkorian takes no for an answer only in exchange for a hefty profit. In 1996 he scrapped a run at Chrysler after his stock in the carmaker reportedly doubled in value to nearly $3 billion. (Kerkorian currently owns about 5% of DaimlerChrysler...