Experts In The News
In 2010, a middle-aged Texan man named Billy Crawford went to hospital to check out an odd black dot on his nose.
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Nevada Treasurer Dan Schwartz and Controller Ron Knecht, two fiscal conservatives swept into office by the Republican wave, have released an alternative Nevada budget to rival GOP Gov. Brian Sandoval’s spending plan.
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Though Las Vegas isn’t particularly known for keeping history alive, aspects of the African-American community have been preserved throughout the city.
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Looking at a graph of human life expectancy over the past four millennia, you get how far medicine has come from diagnosing witchcraft and prescribing bloodletting. But it’s still so inexact that for every year we live, we gain about two months of life. That’s how fast research is improving health care, says Martin Schiller, adding: “It’s maybe the best buy in history for return on investment.”
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Sitting in a beauty shop in West Las Vegas, Claytee White was on a mission to find stories from the African-American community.
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