Word: nevadas
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This November, many eyes will watch Nevada as it votes on a state initiative to legalize marijuana. We are confident that, as in the past, voters will come out against the federal government’s hard line views and demonstrate the strength of the public’s support for legalizing marijuana...
...familiar breed around Los Angeles: a filmmaker bitter that his work remains overlooked by the public. He spent years on his self-produced documentary A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon, in which he contends that nasa staged the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing in the Nevada desert. He sought recognition last week from BUZZ ALDRIN, who flew on the Apollo 11 mission. Aldrin arrived at a Beverly Hills, Calif., hotel expecting to be interviewed for Japanese TV. Instead, he encountered Sibrel brandishing a Bible and demanding that Aldrin swear he had walked on the moon. Aldrin...
Last week Utah announced it was removing some of the more difficult questions from its statewide exams. Ohio recently "refined" its criteria for calculating low-performing schools; afterward, the number receiving Fs fell from 760 to 200. Michigan, California and Nevada are weighing similar actions. Says California's state schools chief Delaine Eastin: "We're almost surely going to have to lower what we define as proficient." Experts warn that the incentive to dumb down standards will only grow as the stricter provisions of the new law take effect, a move that could brand more than 70% of schools...
Both doctors and insurers say the crisis will not abate until legislatures enact reforms. President George W. Bush and the American Medical Association have called for federal limits on recovery for pain and suffering in malpractice cases, and two states, Pennsylvania and Nevada, have already enacted similar reforms. In Mississippi the Governor has called for a special legislative session this month to consider the issue...
Even when tort reforms are put in place, they can take time to bite. In Nevada, where liability caps were passed last month, most insurers have declined to lower rates until they see the change reflected on their balance sheets, which could take years. They may have a point: courts in six states have struck down as unconstitutional limits on a jury's ability to determine damages in malpractice cases, and lawyers in Nevada are readying a case against the new limits...