Word: nevadas
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Such reports are enough to give boxing officials pause. Last week New York became the fifth state, after Arizona, Nevada, Oregon and Washington, to require boxers to undergo routine HIV testing. Other states are expected to follow suit. Of course, if they are really concerned about the health of boxers--who risk brain damage and even death every time they step into the ring--people in the fight game should probably be thinking about banning the sport altogether...
...would not be diverted from her search for Amy. When police interest waned and community donations dried up, she and Ned financed their own hunt by closing their art gallery, selling their Bentley and moving with their son into a smaller house. They tracked bogus leads to Oklahoma and Nevada, visited the Seattle headquarters of a motorcycle gang rumored to have snatched Amy, persuaded Texas officials to exhume an unidentified body and got Unsolved Mysteries to air a TV segment on the case in 1992. After Ned died of lung cancer two years ago, Billig, who also suffered from...
...SHAME THAT YOUR ITEM ON NEVADA rancher Dick Carver, "That Pocket Constitution," contained a reader's erroneous reference to Thomas Jefferson as a drafter of the Constitution [LETTERS, Nov. 13]. Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence but not the Constitution. He was Minister to France when the Constitution was written in 1787 and objected strongly to the omission of a bill of rights. Partly as a result of Jefferson's urging, the first 10 Amendments were soon added to the Constitution. GARY L. TAYLOR U.S. District Judge Santa Ana, California...
...likely to withstand a veto anyway. In a few weeks, reports Austin bureau chief S.C. Gwynne, workers will begin posting signs raising the state speed limit to 70 mph over 77,000 miles of Texas highways. A number of like-minded Western states are giving motorists freer rein: Kansas, Nevada and Wyoming will raise the limit to 75 mph, while Oklahoma and South Dakota will set theirs at 70. The best state for Unser wannabes? Montana, where the only limit will be how fast eight cylinders can move...
...high school quarterback in Las Vegas, Jay A. Snowden '98 was recruited by coaches from the University of Utah, the University of Nevada at Las Vegas and Brigham Young University--the latter a quarterback factory that produced San Francisco 49ers signal-caller Steve Young...