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A small healing park was opened in northern Las Vegas, as part of citizen efforts to heal the wounds left in the city by the fatal shooting last Sunday.
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Apart from the twinkling lights of hotels and casinos , a small healing park was opened in the north of Las Vegas , as part of citizen efforts to heal the wounds left in the city by the fatal shooting last Sunday.
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Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock killed Sunday 58 people and injured nearly 500 others. But he has also traumatized a whole city, which now seeks to relieve his anguish.
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After escaping Hurricane Harvey in Houston, Royce Christensen worked at the Las Vegas music festival.
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The creators of a remembrance garden in north Las Vegas have invited people to leave messages and reflect as the city tries to process its grief.
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Stem cells have the potential to revolutionize treatment for a wide array of diseases, such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, though harvesting enough of them for beneficial use and keeping them viable until they are needed presents significant challenges. So, researchers at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), have developed an efficient technique for taking these cells from a common source—wisdom teeth.
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Sunday’s mass shooting in Las Vegas may have pierced the gun lobby’s no-exceptions resistance to compromise.
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Vice President Mike Pence, who chairs the revived National Space Council, wrote today in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that "America will be the first nation to bring mankind to Mars." These plans follow Elon Musk's announcement last week that a small group of astronauts will be ready to leave Earth in 2024 and head to Mars. But is all this possible in just seven years as a continuation of the technological advances we've seen, or are significant science and engineering breakthroughs needed to reach their goals?
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