Word: nevadas
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Unlike most tourists in the mid-July Nevada heat, Dmitri Sklyarov did not come to Las Vegas for the casinos. He hates the noise, and besides, as a computer scientist he knows how low the odds are of winning. "I use my head and my hands to make money, not waiting for luck," Sklyarov explains in broken English. So there were really only two highlights of his visit: the part where he spoke at the Def Con computer-security conference, and the part at the end where he got handcuffed and led away...
...Sklyarov, the three weeks until his bail hearing last Monday were a whirl of jails: federal detention centers in Nevada, Oklahoma and California. Though separated from his wife, two-year-old son and four-month-old daughter back in Moscow, Sklyarov was typically upbeat about his imprisonment. He read mystery and romance novels to improve his English and felt he was learning a lot about U.S. society: "When you watch American movies, you see the policeman arrest somebody and read him his rights and that's all, but it's very interesting what happens after...
...York and Pennsylvania, both Democrat-friendly states, lost two congressional seats each. Connecticut, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, and Mississippi are also losing one seat each. On the other hand, Republican-friendly states like Arizona, Texas, Florida and Georgia will each gain two congressional seats, while California, Nevada and Colorado will each gain one seat...
...leaders of the majority, Daschle and Reid are in a position to prevent the Senate from passing its approval resolution. They can't prevent the resolution from coming to a vote, but they can mobilize Democrats and can expect help from such G.O.P. dissenters as John Ensign, Nevada's other Senator, who has warned the White House that it will lose his vote on the energy plan if nuclear waste goes to Yucca. Bush is paying attention--he doesn't have Republican votes to spare...
...Reid faces an uphill battle. "Nobody wants the waste," explains Alaska Senator Frank Murkowski, the senior Republican on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee. The 31 states that have nuclear power plants are not about to stand with Nevada--who wants radioactive garbage piling up in their backyard? Even some Nevada politicians realize that. "I can read the writing on the wall," says Nevada state senator Bill O'Donnell. "We're going to get the waste." O'Donnell believes Reid should negotiate with the Administration now so that Nevada would get something from the deal, such as a railroad through...