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Print edition for March 29, 2006

It still can be a gas to get behind the wheel of a hybrid
By Launce Rake
Jenner, Spanish content manager for the Web site VEGAS.com, is one of a small, but growing number of hybrid-vehicle owners in Southern Nevada.
Hispanic protests in LV lack L.A. punch
By Timothy Pratt
An official told him that a group of high school students was marching down the street, protesting House-approved legislation that would make it a felony to be in the country illegally.
Letter: Pro sports leagues right to avoid Vegas
I'm old enough to remember the City University of New York basketball's point-shaving scandal, about 50-plus years ago, which diminished college basketball in New York for a number of years. David Stern, the NBA commissioner, should heed history and keep basketball out of Las Vegas as the outgoing NFL commissioner, Paul Tagliabue, has done.
There's a new enforcer in town
Penalty minutes.
Jeff Haney on the role youth played when 'Gigabet' prevailed at a marathon poker event
It was no coincidence that the last two men standing - sitting, actually - were also the two youngest at the final table, as stamina won out against experience.
Jon Ralston on the changing masks worn by GOP gubernatorial hopefuls
And that's the past. As to the future: Read their lips. No tax increases on their watches, should they be granted the right to watch by the electorate later this year.
Metro detective still wants a change at top
David Kihara
He's the long shot of long shots.
Editorial: A nation of sleepyheads
According to a random poll by the National Sleep Foundation, a nonprofit group that seeks to improve public health and safety through education about sleep and sleep disorders, only 20 percent of children ages 11 through 17 sleep the recommended nine hours each night. And 45 percent reported sleeping fewer than eight hours on school nights.
Tom Gorman wonders if paying an honest day's wage for an honest day's work makes him part of the 'immigration problem'
Talk-show hosts thrive on fractious debate, and the illegal-immigrant issue is about as divisive as it gets.
Feds try to turn off spigot for project projec
CARSON CITY - A plan to pump water from a rural valley in Lincoln County to support a housing development straddling the Clark County line would harm the Lake Mead National Recreation Area and threaten endangered species, the federal government claims.
Editorial: A move signifying nothing
The choice of Card as the first to go is as questionable as many of the other decisions Bush has made during his administration. Card has rarely, if ever, been portrayed as anyone but a hard-working, intelligent and efficient administrator. Key policy decisions in the Bush administration have been much more widely associated with Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove.
Neighbors want to rein in school
By Emily Richmond
Residents of a rural Henderson neighborhood say their pastoral views - and way of life - are threatened by the Clark County School District's version of progress.
Pupfish meeting planned for Thursday
The Devils Hole pupfish was listed as endangered in 1967. The inch-long, iridescent blue fish lives only in the 93-degree waters of Devils Hole in the Amargosa Valley in a section of Death Valley National Park. Although the cavern is more than 400 feet deep, the pupfish are believed to spawn exclusively on a shallow rock shelf just under the water's surface.
Of squirrel-people and men
What: "An Evening With Christopher Moore"
Letter: Repeating errors of Iraq could be disastrous
We already know about the consequences of poor intelligence information, lack of world support and our shock-and-awe first strike against Iraq. Would a strike against Iran be a repeat of this same scenario?
Letter: People need to learn to adjust to growth
Years ago, when some developer was building houses up on the slope of Frenchman Mountain, the ad read something like this: The house is free. The view is what you're paying for.
Letter: Too much made of weight issue
I am sorry that Ron Kantowski has to dwell on an issue such as her weight, as opposed to the fact she dominates every player, team and anything else in her path.
Editorial: An ounce of prevention
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials had no idea in 1981 that the illness noted in five gay Los Angeles men signaled the beginning of a global epidemic that, despite major advances in halting its advance, killed 3.1 million worldwide in 2005 alone. The United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) estimates another 40.3 million are living with the disease.
FLASHPOINT for Mar 29, 2006
FLASHPOINT for Mar 29, 2006

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