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Print edition for April 13, 2006

Editorial: A war on weather balloons?
Much of the story was being widely reported as early as June 2003, that the alleged trailer-mounted laboratories were not weapons of mass destruction at all, but rather equipment used to fill artillery balloons with hydrogen. Such balloons gather weather information that conventional artillery units need for calculating the trajectory of their rounds.
John Katsilometes takes a seat as NFL Hall of Famer Terry Bradshaw rambles on
The excitable Bradshaw was the keynote speaker at the Las Vegas International Hotel & Restaurant Show awards luncheon, which honored Boyd Gaming Chief Executive Bill Boyd as Hotelier of the Year, and Emeril's New Orleans Fish House and Delmonico Steakhouse Director of Operations Scott Farber as Restaurateur of the Year.
Please don't lick the paintings
The paintings of raw meat by Belgian artist Cindy Wright are engaging, intense, beautiful and, well, a little revolting.
Jeff Haney on the melee at Thomas & Mack: There is more than one villain and no real solution as boxing lands another blow against its own image - and Don King is the only one making sense
What makes boxing a great sport is that it showcases controlled violence - emphasis on "controlled."
Risk rises with emerging-markets stocks
You can tell by the bubbles - the torrid price action in single-country mutual funds from India to Brazil, the hot money going into almost any stock fund with "international" in its name.
Pinnacle, Lee bet big on Tropicana
Dan Lee, the chief executive of Pinnacle, has an impressive background. As writer Liz Benston has reported in the Las Vegas Sun, Lee has been credited with doubling casino profits at Pinnacle since he took over in 2002, a period of time that also has seen an aggressive expansion.
New hat, different view
Plans for a regional shopping center in Henderson next to industrial plants that use hazardous chemicals have been revived by a former Clark County commissioner who voted in 1993 to prohibit such people-oriented uses at the site.
Immigration-law provision could affect all business owners
All of the nation's 8.4 million employers would be required to electronically send the names and Social Security numbers of their employees over the Internet to be checked against two government databases.
Pet therapy for owners
So here's a question. If you pay to have testicle implants for your dog, or psychic readings for your horse, which of you is supposed to feel better? You, or your pet?
Letter: Ignorance is no excuse this time
Let's look back to those nostalgic days of the '50s, when it was atomic party time for Las Vegans as well as tourists, as they watched the giant mushroom cloud erupt. How uninformed they were - how completely innocent! Little did they know of the resulting health hazards.
Another audit finds fault with accounting at EOB
By Timothy Pratt
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting Tuesday sent KCEP 88.1-FM a final report, based on an earlier audit that, among other things, told Station Manager Lee Winston that the radio station needed to pay back $23,322 in federal grants because of poor accounting.
Letter: Common sense approach to driving
When driving, you should not go 10 miles over or under the posted speed limit. If you choose to go over the stated limit, you should be on the left side; if going under you should be on the right and just the right amount in the middle! These are, in case you didn't know, the traffic laws in this city.
Editorial: Missing without a trace
According to a story Wednesday by the Sun, district officials say a review of students who dropped out of high school after the 2004-05 school year suggested that as many as two-thirds had moved away from Southern Nevada with their families. If true, this means that fewer students than originally thought were dropping out for reasons considered typical - taking jobs, falling behind in credits or having too many absences.
Editorial: Grisly reminders of Katrina
And the bodies of its victims continue to emerge. According to a recent story by The New York Times, the search for hurricane victims' bodies in New Orleans was left to victims' families or friends, as federal aid for the searches stopped in November and didn't resume until March 2 after the Federal Emergency Management Agency approved additional funding.
Housing chief to be reviewed in public
By Timothy Pratt
The board had listed on the agenda for its regularly scheduled monthly meeting a closed session for Chief Executive Don England's annual performance evaluation.
Edwards not afraid to get his hands dirty
By J. Patrick Coolican
A couple of miners stood outside the Riviera, smoking cigarettes and lamenting that John Edwards isn't president, although they said they'll work for him if he runs in 2008.
Letter: Delicate situation handled with sledgehammer
This time the failure wasn't a diplomatic blunder, but a serious lack of good judgment regarding strategy.
Recorder should be appointed, not elected
Deane barely weathered that controversy, which resulted in calls for her resignation, but her troubles aren't going away - and they could get much worse. This month Metro Police detectives, using search warrants, seized documents at her office and apartment. KLAS Channel 8 has reported that Deane is suspected of taking documents from the recorder's office and selling them to businesses. The reason why such an allegation is so serious is that some of the documents filed with the recorder's office involve real property transactions, and knowing about such transactions prior to their public filing would give a business a ...
Letter: Target hunters, not mountain lions
Oh wait. I have a better idea. Let's reduce the hunters. Just seven less tags would equal what the mountain lions were taking. Or, how about reducing tags even more. Do you think eliminating the bighorn tags entirely might result in even fewer bighorn deaths? Duh!

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