Greening the Las Vegas Strip

The resorts along Las Vegas Boulevard sit not just in the middle of a desert, but at a crossroads where conspicuous consumption meets scarce resources.

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Las Vegas and the 21st-century Strip

While much has been made of CityCenter’s , far less attention has been paid to the design behind it. It’s a design that speaks in equal parts to the challenges of the Las Vegas Strip, the unsustainable sprawl of the Las Vegas Valley (now home to 2 million people) and a fundamental shift in American demographics.

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How to spend a fabulous weekend in Vegas

Viva, Las Vegas! In these tough economic times everyone deserves a break from reality, and Las Vegas is the cure for the common vacation. Make the most of your Vegas trip with these helpful tips.

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SUV hits 9-year-old on Las Vegas Strip sidewalk

An SUV that ran up on a sidewalk on the Las Vegas Strip hit a 9-year-old California boy, causing life-threatening injuries.

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Topless club owner: Gingrich group rescinded award

Newt Gingrich's conservative group gave — and then rescinded — a business award to a popular topless club in Texas, the proprietor said Thursday.

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Jury picks life in prison for 2 in Vegas bombing

A Nevada jury chose life in prison without parole Tuesday for two illegal immigrants found guilty in a bombing that killed a hot dog stand vendor in a Las Vegas casino parking lot in 2007.

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Trial begins in fatal Las Vegas Strip bombing case

A prosecutor opened his case Friday against two men accused in a deadly bombing by showing jurors video of the casino parking structure blast and a replica of the small pipe bomb that caused it.

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Former German border strip to be nature preserve

The government says it will create a nature preserve out of the former border zone between East and West Germany.

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Card sharks on Vegas Strip welcome Komodo dragon

A Komodo dragon has arrived on the Las Vegas Strip, where the endangered species normally are limited to cheap buffets, 99-cent shrimp cocktails and single-deck blackjack.

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Man Sentenced to Life in Las Vegas Crash

A California man accused of plowing his car into a crowd on the Las Vegas Strip in a crash that killed three people was sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole, his lawyer said.

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Jury Gives $6.1M to Woman in Strip Hoax

A jury awarded $6.1 million Friday to a woman who was forced to strip for a search in a McDonald's back office after someone called the restaurant posing as a police officer reporting a theft.

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Ky. Jury Deciding McDonald's Case

A jury on Thursday began deliberating the case of woman who said she was forced to strip in a McDonald's back office at the behest of a caller posing as a police officer.

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`Funky Winkerbean' Character to Die

Despite e-mails from readers asking him to save her, "Funky Winkerbean" creator Tom Batiuk says the comic strip character Lisa Moore will succumb to breast cancer.

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Studio 60: It Ends Tonight...Finally

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3 Dead in Mass. Strip Club Shooting

A man barred from a strip club after his relationship with a bartender soured returned around closing time Tuesday and fatally shot a bouncer, who had fathered the bartender's child, and the manager before killing himself.

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Strippers Help Las Vegas Area Schools

The Clark County School District kicked off the first day of school Wednesday with scant resources. But it got a major donation from the scantily clad.

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Police Kill Driver in Vegas Confrontation

A police officer killed a motorist on the crowded Las Vegas Strip after a dispute over the driver's noisy car stereo.

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On the Strip, the Mandarin Oriental is billing itself as a true boutique nongaming hotel that just happens to sit at the entrance to the 67-acre CityCenter campus and is surrounded by 3,000- and 4,000-room megaresorts.

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XOXO has put a racy spin on holiday windows, according to the New York Post, with "live mannequins" changing clothes for passersby. Yes, that means models stripping down to their skivvies on a busy New York Street:

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LAS VEGAS — Some of the world's top architects and designers have taken a fresh deck of cards and created a Xanadu on the Las Vegas Strip.

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Robert Pattinson, the star of the Twilight films, has recalled the horror he felt after jokingly instructing a fan to strip.

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Every opportunity for peace in the Middle East has been led to slaughter, and at this isolated desert crossing, on June 25, 2006, another moment of promise culminated in bloodshed.

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A junior hockey team was banished from a city ice rink after players engaged in "strip hockey" - shedding a piece of uniform every time a practice shot missed its mark.

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A woman's attempt to avoid arrest over shoplifting some beef jerky proved ineffective, as it turned out that stripping in front of policemen won't stop them from arresting you. Kicking them in the groin also doesn't help you cause, apparently.

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New Zealand's Martin Jetpack Company started its first commercial solo flights today, with the first pilots winning by auction on TradeMe. And the winner? A Christchurch strip club - so it was up to four strippers to learn how to operate the jetpack.

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yet another landmark from Home going by the wayside. I remember as a little girl, driving by that place after being on vacation and knowing that I was back home ...

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A man sitting on a toilet at Wiggie's Bar was ordered to take his clothes off by a man wielding a sawed-off shotgun, police reported.

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Authorities said a man was arrested after being accused of leaving two small children in his vehicle while he was in a Clearwater strip club. The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office reports that the 33-year-old man left a 3-year-old and a 4-year-old in a car late Sunday night.

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Staff at a design and marketing company in Newcastle spent a day working together naked after being told it would improve their morale.

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A prank call leads police to two What-A-Burger employees in their underwear breaking the fast food restaurant's windows.

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Actress HEATHER GRAHAM has urged women to get stripping - because the sexy act is so empowering.

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Excerpt: About 400 people have stripped off in London in order to win free flights in a stunt organised by Irish carrier Aer Lingus.

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Israel attacked Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip despite of truce condition exists. (Reuters)

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Israeli airstrike Gaza militant positions despite truce condition exists between two sides. (AP)

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BALTIMORE, Jan. 7, 2009 — Amy Fisher, "The Long Island Lolita" of Joey Buttafuoco fame, will make her feature dance debut at Scores Baltimore on Jan. 23 and 24.

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FURIOUS parents have called for a saucy teacher to be sacked after she put on a saucy strip show for her 15-year-old pupils.

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Russian billionaires have it all, from private jets and luxury cars to sports teams and huge mansions. But one of the country's richest men has taken great pleasure in showing off a different kind of wealth - his wife!

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"This is a very large man," Carroll said, estimating his weight at more than twice the woman's. "He was on top of her, actually in the act of violently beating her when the officers arrived, with the knife in his hand."

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Success has a color, and the color is red. In fact, a recent study confirms previous reports that athletes wearing red uniforms win competitions more often than opponents dressed in other colors.

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Militants in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip fired at least two rockets into southern Israel on Tuesday, breaching a five-day-old cease-fire.

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For half a century, Germany was divided by an internal border, running between democratic West Germany and communist East Germany. Now, 18 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the nature that found refuge in no-man's-land may finally be given official protection.

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A teacher faces disciplinary measures for threatening to force a girl to take off her clothes as punishment for using her mobile phone during his class, local education officials said.

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