Word: nevadas
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...Okui was sent with his father and two brothers to the Manzanar War Relocation Center, a Japanese internment camp set on a windswept square-mile plot at the foot of California's Sierra Nevada, 220 miles north of Los Angeles. He spent three years there, living in tarpaper-covered barracks, where privacy could be eked out only by stringing sheets between bunks. Later, as a schoolteacher, he conducted tours of the site. But only now does Okui--and others who remain of the 120,000 ethnic Japanese, mostly American citizens, who were held at Manzanar and nine other internment camps...
...convicted of tax evasion; of a self-inflicted gunshot wound; in Las Vegas. Claiborne, who had cancer and Alzheimer's disease, was the first federal judge to be sent to prison, where he served 17 months of a two-year sentence. As an attorney, he was considered one of Nevada's top defense lawyers; his clients included Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland...
...celestial view of the planet and a few minutes of weightlessness--for a bargain price of $98,000. Space Adventures of Arlington, Va., is marketing that trip and claims that 100 would-be astronauts have already put down deposits. An orbiting hotel may not be so far behind. Nevada real estate magnate Robert Bigelow says he's ahead of schedule in his $500 million plan to launch a modular space station by 2015, one that he says would have "multiple uses," including, perhaps, rooms for couples to engage in a little space nookie...
...Increase in the population of Nevada, the fastest-growing state for the 17th straight year...
...Colorado since state officials began keeping count six years ago. Hospitals are packed, and school attendance has dropped 30% in some districts. With more hacking coughers passing through the metal detectors at Denver International Airport, security screeners are being careful to change their latex gloves frequently. Texas and Nevada have also seen a surge in cases...