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Once dubbed "Scarlett" for her dramatic and determined efforts to keep Southern Nevada in water, Pat Mulroy stands in a replica of a water pipe at Las Vegas Springs Preserve.

For Want of Water

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Las Vegas was first settled for its springs, springs that made it an oasis in the desert. Although those springs have decades since run dry, water is still the most import resource to Las Vegas and the dry Southwest. And by all indications the region is only going to get dryer.

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Construction Deaths

Las Vegas has always flourished through growth. But never before has booming construction on the Strip taken such a toll in lives. The 12 construction deaths in less than 19 months exceed the total reported for the entire 1990s building ... Continue...

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Indentured Doctors

Across the United States, foreign doctors are being worked to exhaustion, cheated out of wages, coerced into unfair contracts and diverted away from the medically needy patients they're supposed to serve. Their bosses can bully them because they sponsor their ... Continue...

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Real Estate in Crisis

The subprime mortgage crisis is hitting the Las Vegas metro area particularly hard. In fact, Nevada has the highest foreclosure rate in the country and the metro area is consistently one of the top five worse in the nation. The ... Continue...