John McClain’s eureka! moment arrived during a children’s birthday party a couple of years ago. The collected toddlers shunned a stack of more traditional presents in favor of a game-changing piece of technology freshly unleashed on the world: the iPad.

Pawel Szymczykowski will never forget the fire-breathing dragons, the steam-powered bicycles, the magical instruments that played music on their own. Sounds like an LSD trip, but Szymczykowski was just at the Maker Faire in San Mateo, Calif.

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Some might consider it absurd to say that shopping can be personally fulfilling, but, yeah, just went there. When I say shopping, I’m not talking about compulsive indulgence in raw consumer want, or stoking that weird hoarding impulse that fuels warehouse stores and discount chains.

Great Basin National Park offers a dramatic landscape lush with mystery and wonder (and that's just the sky) The mountain ranges of Great Basin are only half the story — the dramatic clouds complete the picture. Dusk If you’re coming from Las Vegas, I recommend that you drive into Great Basin National Park as the sun is setting.

If you've ever gone half-mad navigating the cavernous aisles of a crowded big-box warehouse outlet, you know shopping can be a chore. But with the right store, the right people and the right price, shopping can be a pleasure.

Can my credit card company garnish my wages to force me to pay my credit card debt? “A person, by using their credit card, has agreed to repay these charges. This agreement is not automatically enforceable by the credit card company, but can be enforced by lawsuit.

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Now’s your chance to take the law into your own hands — in a manner of speaking, anyway: With Desert Companion’s Top Lawyers list. In the pages that follow, you’ll find more than 600 of Southern Nevada’s most recommended lawyers.