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...drug sentences, some 700 drug courts have been created or are being planned by various states to shepherd narcotics abusers through treatment rather than prison. Utah and Oregon curtailed police powers to forfeit the assets of suspected drug users. Nine states have legalized medical marijuana, including Oregon, Maine and Nevada...
...same time, California has cast its shadow over ambitious deregulation plans being launched in such states as Oklahoma, Nevada and Arkansas (see following stories). Says Daniel Yergin, chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates: "The California crisis puts questions about our entire energy infrastructure front and center...
...handful of states, such as West Virginia, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Nevada and New Mexico, are so spooked by the chaos on the West Coast that, at least for the moment, they are pulling the plug on deregulation. "We're going to wait for the smoke to clear," says North Carolina state senator David Hoyle, co-chairman of the legislative commission that just delayed the planned deregulation...
...they feel demeaned by the TV show? "No way!" explained 24-year old Julie Luste from New York. Her three years at Hooters has paid for her to earn a B.A. in psychology (albeit from the University of Nevada) and she can't wait to be on the TV show. He view was shared by 27-year-old Amy McNair, who has ambitions to travel and feels that the show could give her a leg up in this goal...
Jerry is a Nevada homicide detective whose life is his job. On the day of his retirement a particularly grisly case--an eight-year-old girl has been sexually abused and murdered--arises. He devotes the last six hours of his career to investigating it. He also makes a pledge to the slain girl's mother that he will find the murderer...