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...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...
...smack against the California border and treats its high-cost, highly regulated neighbor the way a hummingbird does a flower. From 2000 to 2003, Reno has lapped up major operations of 17 California companies including Sun Microsystems and Charles Schwab, according to the Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada, in addition to the 700,000-sq.-ft. distribution facility Amazon.com set up in 1999 and the third roasting-and-distribution center Starbucks opened. Microsoft, Dell and Pfizer all have operations there. An estimated 200,000 people migrate from California to Nevada each year, many with businesses...
...maternal grandmother, an extravagant spirit who, like many women in her family, tended toward "slight and major derangements." Her father, a hard-drinking depressive, leveraged one real estate deal after another with little money. "His idea of a relaxing way to make a payment was to drive to Nevada and shoot craps all night." The remembered details of family life yield vivid metaphors for her theme, none better than this: in a Sacramento house the Didions moved into in 1951, the gold silk organza curtains on the stairs hadn't been changed since 1907. They "hung almost two stories, billowed...
...Mike Huckabee and former Congressman Asa Hutchinson, the Republicans' best hopes for unseating Senator Blanche Lincoln in Arkansas. Representative Jennifer Dunn, the G.O.P.'s first choice to challenge Senator Patty Murray in Washington, and HUD Secretary Mel Martinez, a party favorite in Florida, have also said no. And in Nevada, G.O.P. Congressman Jim Gibbons has decided not to challenge Senate Democratic whip Harry Reid, who won his 1998 race by just 428 votes. "I see a very competitive fall in 2004," says Senator Jon Corzine, who chairs the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee...