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    Women in Science

    Jan 29, 2010
    Women in Science still face challenges that male counterparts do not. So says the Director of the Clayman Institute of Gender Research at Stanford University.
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    The Sad State of the Liberal Arts

    Jan 29, 2010
    University of Chicago philosopher Martha Nussbaum argues in a forthcoming book that we are in a crisis because we have ignored the liberal arts. Just because they don't make money doesn't mean they aren't important for our democracy.
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    Veterans' Issues

    Jan 29, 2010
    Veterans have been sold short for decades, argues Matthew LaPlante. He's the author of a new series on the failure to give veterans the benefits they need to re-enter American society.
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    Shrinking State

    Jan 28, 2010
    For the first time in decades, Nevada's population is shrinking. It could affect everything from federal grants to the distribution of congressional seats.
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    Super Freakonomics

    Jan 28, 2010
    University of Chicago economist Steven D. Levitt has become famous with his off-beat analysis in Freakonomics and Super Freakonomics.
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    The Future of Las Vegas

    Jan 27, 2010
    So what went right and what went wrong in the Las Vegas Valley during the boom decade? That's the business of the Urban Land Institute and six local planners give us their take on what was good and bad in land use during the recent runaway real estate market. They also tell us what we can expect and what we should hope happens over the next decade.
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    The Future of the UMC Medical Center

    Jan 25, 2010
    Over the past few years, Clark County's beleaguered University Medical Center has been a font of bad news. The hospital has been awash in scandal and mismanagement, and loses tens of millions of dollars annually.
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    Mascaro and Sebelius about Harry Reid

    Jan 22, 2010
    Republican Scott Brown has defeated Democrat Martha Coakley. That makes Brown the first Republican to go to the US Senate on behalf of Massachusetts since 1972.
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    The Gibbons Education Plan

    Jan 20, 2010
    Governor Jim Gibbons has an eight-point plan to reform Nevada education and to save money at the same time. His critics say it's a political stunt but so far but the plan is picking up on the ideas of education reformers.
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    Male Prostitutes

    Jan 19, 2010
    The Shady Lady Ranch, a Nye County brothel, has hired its first male prostitute. The owners see it as an experiment that might or might not work.
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    State of the City

    Jan 14, 2010
    Revenues are way down and the city is negotiating with public safety and clerical unions for salary cuts. The unions are fighting the cuts while the city signs on to build a new privately-financed city hall.
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    The Early Nuclear Age

    Jan 13, 2010
    The bomb has been around for nearly 65 years. But it only became a factor in defense thinking after it had ended World War Two in the Pacific with the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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    CES

    Jan 12, 2010
    So the next big thing is three-dimensional television. Hmmm.
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    Childhood Obesity

    Jan 12, 2010
    Obesity is an epidemic but the biggest problems may be in our children. They eat too much fast food and soda: Who has time to prepare the fresh food nutritionists recommend? And, then they spend so much time at the computer or the Wii that they never get any exercise.
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    What's Next in Congress?

    Jan 11, 2010
    Sen. Harry Reid has now become the Democratic senator most "at risk" of not being re-elected.
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    Marijuana Initiative

    Jan 07, 2010
    Three times lucky? That's the hope of supporters of the latest initiative to legalize marijuana in Nevada. This time they also want to license growers and dealers and raise a lot of tax revenue.
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    Sick

    Dec 28, 2009
    The health care reform legislation is still struggling to get out of the Senate. Will it die in committee or die of compromise? Journalist Jonathan Cohn, author of Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis---and the People Who Pay the Price, joins us to give us his take on why reform is needed.
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    Religious Roundtable

    Dec 24, 2009
    A priest, a rabbi and an imam ..
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    Westside Schools

    Dec 22, 2009
    Students in historically black West Las Vegas are underachieving academically. They are behind their peers in other neighborhoods.
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    Business Outlook

    Dec 16, 2009
    The CityCenter project is likely to shake up the Las Vegas economy but what's the long-term outlook. The housing industry is still in trouble and unemployment remains at record levels.
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    Mountain West Report

    Dec 15, 2009
    The bigger the bubble the bigger the crash. That's the moral of a new report from the Brookings Institution on the growth and recession in the Mountain West.
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    Clark County School Superintendent

    Dec 12, 2009
    Clark County School District Chief Walt Rulffes joins us to talk about the host of issues facing educators and schools in Southern Nevada. We talk about the empowerment schools program, federal aid that will require a change in state law so that test scores can be used to assess teacher quality, raises for classroom teachers, school construction and pending budget cuts.
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    Migration Slowdown

    Dec 10, 2009
    A new report from the Brookings Institution shows that people are moving to new homes within the United States at the slowest rate since World War II. The recent migration slowdown was the surprising, but in retrospect inevitable, by-product of an unprecedented run-up in both housing values and housing-related debt, say researchers.
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    Mike Kelley

    Dec 10, 2009
    Since the late 1990s, Mike Kelley has been managing editor of the Las Vegas Sun. He's seen it through its last days as a separate newspaper and he was present at the creation of the current Review-Journal insert.
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    Clark County School Superintendent

    Dec 09, 2009
    Clark County School District Chief Walt Rulffes joins us to talk about the host of issues facing educators and schools in Southern Nevada. We talk about the empowerment schools program, federal aid that will require a change in state law so that test scores can be used to assess teacher quality, raises for classroom teachers, school construction and pending budget cuts.
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