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Batteries are ubiquitous in modern society, from the tiniest button-sized lithium-ion variety to the lead-acid vehicle batteries. If they wind up in a landfill, they break down and leach heavy metals into the ground that can then end up in the groundwater, experts say.
Downtown Las Vegas is home to major casinos, small businesses and – come later this year – retail giant Zappos Inc. What residents may not know, however, is that downtown is also the center for companies that focus on the valley but have national and international ties.
Julienne Paraiso, a graduate of Durango High School and a senior at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, was one of 15 undergraduate students who participated this summer in the Dr. Ronald E. McNair Scholars Institute. She and other students paired with professors in their fields of interest to carry out research projects.
Genocide in various countries has resulted in millions of deaths during the last few decades. These events, however, are not often covered in the mainstream media, and a few people downtown are looking to change that.
D.A.R.E. PROGRAM ENDS AFTER 25 YEARS
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Football season is under way at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and Lefty’s is a good place to gather before or after the game.
Review-Journal sportswriter Ed Graney makes me think, which is the highest compliment I have to pay any writer, not to mention the highest compliment I can receive as a fellow pounder of the keyboard. His commentary last week on Notre Dame suspending radio analyst Allen Pinkett was … well, it made me think.
Sitting in a circle, PB&J youth staff members practiced an experience-sharing exercise with Starburst candies. They later did the exercise with their campers at the nonprofit PB&J Leadership Training Inc.’s Leadership Camp 2012, at Camp Lee Canyon, on Mount Charleston, in late July and August.
A man who fell or jumped to his death from a freeway overpass Friday might have been running away from a state trooper because he was in the country illegally, his family said Sunday.
The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood watch from 9 a.m. Monday until 5 a.m. Tuesday for Southern Nevada. Other areas included in the watch are eastern California and northwest Arizona.