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Print edition for July 10, 2006

Editorial: Waves of fear
According to a recent story by The Washington Post, scientists are only beginning to monitor the oceans' acid levels, but they fear it could be among the most pressing environmental issues the world faces.
How to fight a pandemic
After months of planning, research, conferences and, yes, large doses of buck-passing and hand-wringing, here is the best advice to protect yourself and others should avian influenza mutate into the world's next pandemic:
Ruling over mine exposes flaw in new law
It's right there in the U.S. Constitution, right there in the First Amendment. It's difficult to miss:
Hotels target valley gateway
By Liz Benston
That magic moment arrives near the off-ramp for State Route 146 and St. Rose Parkway. It is the gateway into town, where the curtain is pulled back, pulses quicken and anticipation mounts.
Letter: Pride getting in the way of diplomacy
Does it say we have been caught with our pants down and need to pay attention to our internal and external security, or does it tell us we are faced with a formidable new enemy that is going develop sophisticated weapons, invade our country and subjugate our people?
Letter: Looking at treason in a different light
Perhaps, Mr. Conary, when the people who leaked the information to The New York Times are tried for treason, they can be tried right alongside George Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove and Scooter Libby for their act of treason against Valerie Plame.
LOOKING IN ON: GAMING
By Liz Benston
It's the thick of summer in Las Vegas, which means pool parties amid bikini-clad servers, afternoon boozing at extended happy hours and free kiddie movies and video games at the Four Seasons?
Letter: Different ways to promote recycling
Today, in Las Vegas, the public doesn't care about recycling, and the compelling lure of new recycling containers or more frequent recycling pickups will not change this attitude. Here is what works. Make sure that Republic Services honors its existing contract - two trash pickups every week and one recycling every two.
LOOKING IN ON: WASHINGTON
The Senate this week plans to take up the 2007 Homeland Security spending bill, and Democrats led by Minority Leader Harry Reid will use the occasion to launch an attack on what they call Republicans' underfunding of critical anti-terror programs.
Friendly neighbors often waved off in Las Vegas
By Marshall Allen
You've seen it. We've all seen it, probably given it. The Vegas Wave.
THE OPENING LINE
The bad thing about driving to visit my mom in New Mexico is that she usually makes me take a box of my childhood memories home with me.
Jeff Haney says look for the Vikings to go under while Joe Gibbs and his Redskins keep on winning
Conventional wisdom tells us that to beat the oddsmakers - and, by extension, our fellow sports gamblers - it's necessary to identify factors that have not been built into the betting line.
Ron Kantowski recalls a World Cup-ful for early morning games, strange sounding English soccer lingo and athletic play seen on no other world stage
It's going to be roughly three years and 11 months before the world gathers in South Africa to do it all over again.
Editorial: Scrooge act getting old
The increases alone amount to nearly three times the annual salary of workers earning the federal minimum wage, whose hourly pay has not increased a dime in all those years.
Editorial: Kicking the habit
According to a story by The New York Times last week, University of California researchers and those from eight other institutions said they are working on a vaccine that would block the sensations that sate a nicotine addiction by preventing nicotine molecules from reaching the brain.

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