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Steve Friess

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Steve has written for The New York Times, Newsweek, Time, USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, Wired and many other publications.

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Artist Maya Lin Has Vegas Debut as Megaresort Opens

posted: 11 days 14 hours ago

LAS VEGAS (Dec. 16) -- Maya Lin has been known for many things in her career. Child prodigy. Groundbreaker. Sculptress. Architect. This week, as unlikely as it may sound, she officially adds yet anot ...

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Three of a Kind in Nevada Politics

posted: 18 days 15 hours ago

LAS VEGAS (Dec. 9) -- Nevada has drawn three of a kind, but not the sort that generally produces celebration in these parts. All three of the state's top officeholders are extraordinarily unpopular, ...

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Vegas Built It -- Now Will They Come?

posted: 24 days 11 hours ago

LAS VEGAS (Dec. 3) -- Maria Gomez lives about as far away from the Las Vegas Strip as you can and still see some of its pulsing light. For most of her 20 years here, she's waited tables at local chai ...

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Stripper-Mobile Comes to a Bump-and-Grinding Halt

posted: 26 days 16 hours ago

The stripper-mobile. LAS VEGAS -- They may call it Sin City and promote it with an anything-goes mantra, but politicians here do draw the line somewhere: Stripper-mobiles. Yes, there is such a thing ...

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Slot Machines Jump Into Interactive Era

posted: 44 days 12 hours ago

LAS VEGAS (Nov. 13) - Some hotly anticipated new themed slot machine games based on "Sex and the City" and "American Idol" may headline next week's Global Gaming Expo, but the real buzz at the year's ...

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One Man's Solemn Mission to Recover WWII Remains

posted: 46 days 17 hours ago

At first, it seemed like a sick joke or, worse, some sort of scam. The caller from North Carolina was telling John Lenox that the wreckage of his father's plane had been located. Staff Sgt. Alvin Len ...

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2nd Place? No Problem for Poker-Playing Lumberjack Who Won $5.1 Million

posted: 47 days 16 hours ago

LAS VEGAS -- What is Darvin Moon going to do with his new fortune? "Put it in the bank," said the lumberjack who came in second place at the World Series of Poker. It was a characteristically plain-s ...

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Poker Star Walks Line Between Shy and 'Jerk'

posted: 51 days 6 hours ago

LAS VEGAS (Nov. 6) -- Perched on the fringes of a crowd packing a wind-swept balcony facing the Strip, the man almost universally regarded as the greatest poker player of his generation would be easy ...

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Monopoly Champions Face Off for $20,580

posted: 65 days 17 hours ago

LAS VEGAS -- Rarely in the history of Free Parking and Marvin Gardens has there ever been assembled a brain trust like this one. They may hail from all over the world and they may normally play with ...

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