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Legal Net betting may have to wait

Online gambling proponents may have to wait a little longer for the passage of federal legislation that would legalize betting on the Internet. Congress is tied up with other pressing issues.

Former marketing director takes new approach to poker with Zen Gaming

When former marketing executive Mark Brown heard about a social networking Web site proposal that would feature poker and be able to target ads to specific partners, he thought it sounded like a good — and potentially profitable — idea.

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MISSING LINK: Hoover Dam was built during the Great Depression from 1931 to 1935, drawing more than 5,000 workers to the Nevada desert. Now, as the country faces its worst economic slump perhaps since the Depression, work near the dam is back. The Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge, 1,500 feet downstream from the Hoover Dam, is the longest concrete single-arch bridge in North America.

Obama’s cap-and-trade plan a wolf in sheep’s clothing

President Barack Obama has been shockingly upfront about his heavy-handed plans to govern energy production across the country from Washington, D.C. His plan is known as cap-and-trade, but it amounts to a new national energy tax that will be detrimental to consumers’ pocketbooks at the worst possible time.

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