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...Vegas was created as the world's first experiential duty-free zone, a place dedicated to the anti-Puritan pursuit of instant gratification -- no waiting, no muss, no fuss. In the '30s, Nevada was famous for its uniquely quick and easy marriage (and divorce) laws. And although a certain kind of demented Barbie and Ken still make it a point to stage their weddings in Las Vegas (158,470 people married there in 1992, a majority of them out-of- staters), it is now an atavistic impulse, since the marriage and divorce laws in the rest of the U.S. have...
...Internet. In fact, anyone with a desktop computer and a modem connecting it to a phone line can now find ways into and around the network. "The Internet isn't just computer scientists talking to one another anymore," says Glee Willis, the engineering librarian at the University of Nevada at Reno and one of nearly 20,000 (mostly female) academic librarians who have joined the Internet in the past five years. "It's a family place. It's a place for perverts. It's everything rolled into...
...Administration has not, however, joined the national majority that now says it favors cutting back on legal immigration. Nevada Senator Harry Reid, a rising Democratic star in the immigration wars, has introduced a bill that would establish both an annual limit of 300,000 newcomers, including "immediate relatives," and a national identification card...
Gary, 39, who has lived in the residence for seven and a half months, was forced to leave his Roxbury home due to what he termed "domestic problems." He soon traveled to Las Vegas, Nevada where he worked at a plasma center...
...possible misconduct unrelated to the current inquiry, the committee asked to see the remaining 3,200 pages. Packwood balked, charging an infringement of his right to privacy. The committee responded with a subpoena. Last week in a five-page statement, ethics committee chairman Richard Bryan, a Democrat from Nevada, asserted that information seen by the committee counsel "raised questions about possible violations of one or more laws, including criminal laws...