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1. Falcons - Peregrine (University of Nevada, Reno)
   Provides a short description and photograph of the peregrine falcon. 6-99

2. Water Contaminants - Sources (Nevada Bureau of Health Protection Services)
   Provides sources of information about sources of water contamination, by type of source.

3. -01-19-08 Republican Romney Wins in Nevada (ABC News)
   "Based on entrance poll results, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney will win the Nevada Republican Caucuses, his second victory this week after a disappointing loss in the Iowa caucus last month." 01-08

4. Nevada (Yahoo)
   Provides a list of cities with city guides. 11-01

5. Nevada Schools on the Net (Yahoo)
   Provides schools on the Net by grade level, state, and then city. 11-01

6. Nevada (Weber Publications)
   Includes a great deal of basic information, such as geography, legislature, flag, motto, bird, flower, motto, nickname, and so forth. Also has a link to the state capital, Carson City. 10-00

7. Water Pollution Report Card for States (CBS News)
   "Two environmental groups released a review of government records Tuesday, showing that water pollution enforcement is failing in more than 40 states."
   
   "Friends of the Earth and the Environmental Working Group say these states have allowed critically important water pollution permits to expire, effectively issuing industries a license to pollute."
   
   "The review also concludes that there is currently little action afoot to correct this serious problem. Nevada, Rhode Island, Oregon and Nebraska all had more than two-thirds of their permits expired. Texas had the largest number of expired permits at 135." 9-03

8. -02-03-05 Democrats Blast Bush Social Security Plan (ABC News)
   "Democrats on Thursday said President Bush's proposed overhaul of Social Security would burden future generations with massive debt and undo income protection promised to the elderly since Democrat Franklin Roosevelt was president."
   
   "Standing at the entrance to the Roosevelt Memorial, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and a number of his colleagues said Bush's plan to divert Social Security taxes into private investment accounts would increase the nation's debt to as much as $30,000 per person by 2015, compared to $12,000 in 2001."
   
   "They urged Bush to avoid borrowing huge sums to pay for the private account plan." 2-05

9. Voter-Verifiable Paper Trail Legislation (PCWorld.com)
   "A group of U.S. lawmakers have introduced a bill that would require electronic touch-screen voting machines to allow for a so-called "voter verifiable" paper trail."
   
   The Voting Integrity and Verification Act, introduced this week, would require printed ballots that voters could check after they use an electronic voting machine. The act, introduced by Senator John Ensign (R-Nevada), would add clarifying language to the Help American Vote Act, passed by the U.S. Congress in 2002 after complaints about paper ballots during the 2000 presidential election." 2-05

10. -03-15-05 Reid Promises Strong Consequences If Republicans "Abuse Power" (Bloomberg.com)
    "Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid threatened to bring the Senate to a halt if Republicans try to change the chamber's rules to prevent the minority party from blocking President George W. Bush's judicial nominees."
    
    "Reid, a Nevada Democrat, said during a news conference at the Capitol that he would 'rather dance than fight' with Republican leaders. He said changing rules that the Senate has followed for two centuries would represent an 'arrogant abuse of power.' ''
    
    "During Bush's first term in office, the Senate confirmed 204 judicial nominees and Democrats blocked votes on 10 -- a confirmation rate of over 95 percent."
    
    "Bush renominated seven of those 10; two received recess appointments -- requiring that the Senate eventually review their nominations again. A third, Washington lawyer Miguel Estrada, formally withdrew his nomination."
    
    "During former President Bill Clinton's eight years in office, the Senate withheld a vote on 64 of Clinton's nominees."

11. Marfia Lights of Texas (USA Today)
    "Nevada has Area 51. New Mexico has Roswell. Texas has the Marfa Lights." 7-05

12. Editorial: The Impossible Will Take a Little While (Buzzflash.com - Loeb)
    "Inclusive faith respects the stories of all in the human community, and makes those stories the ground of our politics. It recognizes our profound interconnections, so that if we deny someone justice or damage the earth halfway around the globe, our actions may come back to haunt us at home, as occurred in 911, or with global warming."
    
    "Inclusive faith also recognizes that courage is contagious and that the actions of people in one community may light a spark in another -- the way the US anti-nuclear movement influenced people in the Soviet Union who modeled their actions on our Nevada test site protests, or the way that rebellious American rock music influenced the Czech rock band,that helped spearhead their democracy movement." 01-06

13. Starting the "Dark Ages" (Wikipedia.org)
    "In the years 535 and 536, several remarkable aberrations in world climate took place. The Byzantine historian Procopius recorded of 536, "during this year a most dread portent took place. For the sun gave forth its light without brightness… and it seemed exceedingly like the sun in eclipse, for the beams it shed were not clear." Tree ring analysis by dendrochronologist Mike Baillie, of the Queen's University of Belfast, shows abnormally little growth in Irish oak in 536 and another sharp drop in 542, after a partial recovery. Similar patterns are recorded in tree rings from Sweden and Finland, in California's Sierra Nevada and in rings from Chilean Alerce trees." 10-06

14. "The Future Is Drying Up" (New York Times)
    "When I met with [Secretary of Energy] Chu last summer in Berkeley, the snowpack in the Sierra Nevada, which provides most of the water for Northern California, was at its lowest level in 20 years. Chu noted that even the most optimistic climate models for the second half of this century suggest that 30 to 70 percent of the snowpack will disappear. 'There’s a two-thirds chance there will be a disaster,' Chu said, 'and that’s in the best scenario.' " 10-07

15. Editorial: The Real Rudy (New York Times)
    " 'There are times,' he declared, 'when undocumented aliens must have a substantial degree of protection.' They must feel safe sending their children to school. They should feel safe reporting crime to the police. 'Similarly, illegal and undocumented immigrants should be able to seek medical help without the threat of being reported. When these people are sick, they are just as sick and just as contagious as citizens.' "
    
    "At the moment, Giuliani and fellow moderate Mitt Romney are attacking each other for being insufficiently Tancredo-esque. They are not renouncing the policies they championed as city and state officials, but the emphasis as they run for federal office is all in the other direction. In effect, they are competing to drive away Hispanic votes and make the party unelectable in New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, Florida and the nation at large." 11-07

16. -01-19-08 Republican McCain Wins in South Carolina (US News)
    "Sen. John McCain won a hard-fought South Carolina primary Saturday night, avenging a bitter personal defeat in a bastion of conservatism and gaining ground in an unpredictable race for the Republican presidential nomination. Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama split the spoils in Nevada caucuses marred by late charges of dirty politics." 01-08

17. -05-13-09 RealtyTrac: April Foreclosures Rose 32 Percent (U.S. News)
    "The number of U.S. households faced with losing their homes to foreclosure jumped 32 percent in April compared with the same month last year, with Nevada, Florida and California showing the highest rates, according to data released Wednesday." 05-09

18. -07-29-09 Senate Passes Energy and Water Bill (NPR.org)
    "The Senate on Wednesday passed a $34.3 billion energy spending bill that backs up President Barack Obama's promise to close the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste facility in Nevada." 07-09

19. -11-07-09 California's Water Plan (Time.com)
    "For 50 years, the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta has funneled the Sierra Nevada snow runoff from the Sacramento Valley in the north to the giant farms in California's central valley and the now nearly 20 million people who live in Southern California. Both the economy and population of California are growing, but the amount of available water remains the same, or declines, as is currently the case with the state's worst drought in two decades. The legislation creates a new seven-member council to oversee and restore the fragile Delta, imposes a 20% conservation mandate for cities by 2020 and requires the monitoring of groundwater levels throughout the state. It also places a $11.1 billion bond on next November's ballot to pay for overhauling the water system. The bond measure is larded with water projects statewide in an attempt to encourage passage." 11-09

20. Road Safety and Age (Fox News)
    "At least 21 states have requirements for older drivers, varying from more frequent license renewals to vision tests. Two states — New Hampshire and Illinois — require road tests for those 75 and older, while in Nevada drivers 70 and older who renew licenses by mail must include a medical report." 7-03