Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mike Tyson, already on parole after his 1992 rape conviction, tries to eat his way to a heavyweight title and receives a one-year suspension from the Nevada State Athletic Commission. On Tuesday Tyson pleaded no contest to a charge that he kicked and punched two men after an August, 1998 traffic alteration, a plea that threatens to land him back in prison...
...self-impressed enough to make a symbol of their mere existence a la Woodstock, but the festivals are far more multiracial and gender equal than the hippie fests of yore. And if the rock fests are too mainstream, there's always Burning Man, an annual festival in the Nevada desert that brings as many as 20,000 people together to engage in conscious acts of Dadaist performance...
...other victims, finally went on trial last week, more than 13 years after his arrest. Ng and Leonard Lake, both former Marines, are believed to have killed up to two dozen men, women and children during the mid-1980s after luring them to their remote cabin in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Northern California. They allegedly forced the women to become sex slaves and took scores of pornographic photographs and videotapes of them before killing them and burning the bodies...
...growth of Vegas began, totally unregulated, all but unzoned, producing a monotonous checkerboard of shopping centers, low-rise apartment buildings, trailer parks and (of late) fenced and gated pseudo communities--with, in the middle, the glitz palaces devoted to gambling, or, as Nevada officialdom prefers to call it, "gaming," which sounds a little tonier...
...control over Nature, to Vegas entrepreneurs as it was to the Umayyad caliphs who began building the fountains of the Alhambra on a dry hillside near Granada 12 centuries ago. Nobody grasps this better than Wynn. To install performing dolphins in huge saltwater tanks in a hotel in the Nevada desert seems, on the face of it, about as rational as filling a cruise ship with sand and camels, but it has its own value as spectacle. And nowhere in Vegas is water as spectacular as at the Bellagio, which rises 36 stories, clean and shiny...