Word: nevadas
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While Avenue Q was the first and only show to eschew a national tour and put all its money on Vegas, musicals like Spamalot and Hairspray are excluding or limiting play in competing markets, such as Nevada, California and Arizona. The Vegas focus "has been an awakening for the industry," says Pat Halloran, president of the Independent Presenters Network, a group of 55 theater owners, operators and presenters...
...thing, the older an artifact is, the harder it becomes to show the neat nexus of affiliations that the law requires. "The evidence collapses as you go back in time," says Pat Barker, an archaeologist for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Nevada, who is working on a similar case. "The first 500 years is pretty solid, by 1,000 it's getting dicey, and by 10,000 most of that stuff you just...
...Siberia?Genetics also points to an original homeland for the first Americans - or at least it does to some researchers. "Skeletal remains are very rare, but the genetic evidence suggests they came from the Lake Baikal region" of Russia, says anthropologist Ted Goebel of the University of Nevada at Reno, who has worked extensively in that part of southern Siberia. "There is a rich archaeological record there," he says, "beginning about 40,000 years ago." Based on what he and Russian colleagues have found, Goebel speculates that there were two northward migratory pulses, the first between...
...that is grotesque and egregious in the U.S. In his 25,000-km tour Lévy makes sure to visit a gun show in Fort Worth, a "partner-swapping club" in San Francisco, the gigantic Mall of America near Minneapolis, the Kennedy assassination site in Dallas, a Nevada brothel and two evangelical megachurches. He even gets into Guantánamo, which - having by now seen several U.S. prisons, as did De Tocqueville - he finds representative of America's vindictive attitude toward incarceration. Like De Tocqueville, Lévy encounters many of the leading lights of the day: George...
...spoke to New Orleans residents in Texas, Nevada, Oklahoma, and Mississippi,” Brav wrote in an e-mail. “They’re constantly on the move between residences and cities...