Print edition for August 31, 2007

Diners can eat out and help out: What: Restaurant Week

LOOKING IN ON: EDUCATION: By Emily Richmond; The Clark County School District has gotten grief for not scooping up experienced campus administrators when the opportunity presents itself.

FLASHPOINT for Aug 31, 2007: I have called Jon Porter "The Invisible Man" when he ducked debates. I have called the congressman "Message Man"because of his effortless accessing of and adherence to GOP talking points. Both epithets were bestowed with respect for the tactic and disgust for the tactic. But what could I possibly come up with for Porter after his widely lampooned assertion that gas prices will go to $9 a gallon if we leave Iraq ? He would not elaborate in the report in the newspaper that makes the Sun look better every day. I wonder if he realizes and he probably does ...

Diamondbacks Move Ahead Atop NL West: AP; Mark Reynolds drove in a career-high five RBIs and the Diamondbacks held on for an 8-7 win over the Padres on Thursday night. Arizona, which trailed San Diego by one percentage point coming into the game, held on after taking an 8-0 lead in the seventh to avoid the four-game sweep and move back one game ahead.

Monster Breach Teaches Familiar Lessons: AP; Monster Worldwide Inc. recently discovered that con artists had grabbed contact information from resumes for 1.3 million people - and likely many more, since Monster now says this was not an isolated incident. Files were pilfered not only from Monster.com but from USAJobs.gov, the federal-government career-listing service operated by Monster.

Summary Box: Fed Chief and the Economy: AP; TOUGH LOVE: Bernanke suggested the Fed's next move will be driven by economic considerations, not only in response to troubles of investors and lenders.

LOOKING IN ON: MOTOR SPORTS: Who ruined the night race at Bristol Motor Speedway?

Lung Tumors Are Top Cancer Killer: AP; In the United States, 213,380 new cases and 160,390 lung cancer deaths are expected this year.

What can be done to spark more interest in basketball's Olympics qualifying tournament: By Ron Kantowski; I'm not saying Team USA has had an easy go of it during the FIBA Americas Olympic basketball qualifying tournament at the Thomas & Mack Center. But the other night LeBron James called for the ball in the high post and faked out two Puerto Rican defenders by sticking the ball under his shirt, Meadowlark Lemon-style.

Defense Dept.: 364 Afghan-Area Deaths: AP; Of those, the military reports 239 were killed by hostile action.

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Diamondbacks Move Ahead in NL West: AP; Mark Reynolds drove in a career-high five RBIs and the Diamondbacks held on for an 8-7 win over the Padres on Thursday night. Arizona, which trailed San Diego by one percentage point coming into the game, held on after taking an 8-0 lead in the seventh to avoid the four-game sweep and move back one game ahead.

US Wants UAE to Set Tougher Trade Limits: AP; CRACKDOWN: The U.S. is asking the UAE to stop the shipments.

Craig Interrogation Excerpts: AP; CRAIG: Am I gonna have to fight you in court?

Faster than sound, on the ground: By Phoebe Sweet; Steve Fossett has never seen a record he wouldn't like to break. Solo non stop a round - the - world flight record? Check. Round-the-world sailing record? Piece of cake. Shave 24 hours off the record for duplicating Christopher Columbus' trans-Atlantic trip to America? Yep.

Letter: Census sugarcoats poverty figures: Now the unthinkable happens. Fire ravages the house, burning everything you own , including the automobile. You have lost everything. You have been beaten down.

U.S. Open Results: AP; Fernando Verdasco, Spain, def. Gilles Simon, France, 6-0, 6-4, 6-3.

Editorial: Targeting fraud in Iraq: Despite reporters' accounts over the years , and congressional and military audits that have pointed to shockingly little oversight of contracts and materials, the Pentagon has waited until now to make a serious effort to examine records and root out criminal activity.

The perfect place for a stiff drink: A scotch, a slot machine, a decomposing corpse.

Letter: More recycling before more pickups: This proposed reshuffle is flawed mainly because not enough of us recycle to warrant more pickups. We must start a campaign to enlist more residents to recycle before we can weigh whether the increase in the recycling pickup cycle warrants smelly garbage .

Candid camera for teachers: YouTube generation has a new way of drawing attention away from classroom studies

Soldier from LV dies of self-inflicted gunshot: By Ed Koch; He took antidepressants before returning to Iraq

Editorial: Enough hypocrisy: This month the Idaho Republican pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct. Police arrested him in a restroom at the Minneapolis -St. Paul airport, accusing him of trying to solicit sex.

Uninsured America: More people are living without health insurance, which is why Congress needs to act

Alex Shoofey: 1916-2007: The day after Elvis Presley opened at Las Vegas' Hotel International in 1969, the resort's president, Alex Shoofey, was in the showroom having a cup of coffee with Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker.

Red Tape chronicles: Marshall Allen, Las Vegas Sun; Combat photographer Sgt. Nicholas Raven was deployed for 10 months in Operation Enduring Freedom. But his scars, he says, come from battling bureaucracy - the military's health insurance system.

Editorial: Potentially deadly mistake: The car had broken free from a Union Pacific Railroad yard near Blue Diamond as workers were trying to move it to another track. None of the potentially deadly chlorine leaked from the car, and no one was injured. Federal authorities are investigating the incident , which Union Pacific Railroad officials on Wednesday said posed "no danger to public safety."

Major Computer Viruses Over 25 Years: AP; ELK CLONER, 1982: Regarded as the first virus to hit personal computers worldwide, "Elk Cloner" spread through Apple II floppy disks and displayed a poem written by its author, a ninth-grade student who was designing a practical joke.

Off drugs, native Las Vegan tells of his ordeal on film: Two Las Vegas natives, acquaintances from childhood, teamed up to make a powerful independent motion picture.

Paying parents to parent?: People shouldn’t receive financial rewards to properly care for their children

Bush Unveils Mortgage Proposals: AP; President Bush on Friday announced a set of modest proposals to deal with an alarming rise in mortgage defaults that have contributed to turbulent financial markets over recent weeks.

More May Be Offered Lung Cancer Surgery: AP; It is the first big overhaul of a decades-old method used to predict survival and help determine whether a lung cancer patient will have surgery, chemotherapy or be treated at all.

Guests for the Sunday TV News Shows: AP; ---

Outlook on Iraq puts Porter on offense and defense: By Michael Mishak; Bombarded by those for and against Iraq war, he sees hope on the ground

Q+A: Mark Slaughter: Q+A: Mark Slaughter

Letter: Why sign up to speak when no one listens?: He and all the people who gave input as to the reason no one shows up at city council meetings really missed the boat. In this reader 's (and voter's) humble opinion, it is that most of us realize that the city councils really don't care what we think or say.

Iraq Benchmark Findings: AP; IRAQ HAS FULLY MET REQUIREMENTS TOWARD:

16, and he's a rocking violinist: Jerry Fink, Las Vegas Sun; A teenage violinist/vocalist with his heart set on a rock 'n' roll career joins some middle-aged veterans of heavy metal Saturday in a concert at the Henderson Pavilion.

Jon Ralston assesses gaming titan's views: By Jon Ralston; The MGM Mirage chief executive insisted the Dubai World multibillion-dollar cash infusion had no nexus to settling with the Culinary. He insisted his company was better positioned than the other Strip giant, Harrah's, to make more acquisitions. He insisted that he is nowhere near ready to make way for Jim Murren or anyone else as the head of the company.