By Jane J. Lee, National Geographic Science is still undecided on the matter, although evidence in favor of the idea is stacking up. Now, a new study has found that dogs are able to tell the difference between happy and angry human facial expressions. Biologist Corsin Müller of the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna, Austria, […]
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By Susan Skorupa, Reno Gazette-Journal Molly Seals’ attempt to be the next American Idol ended Wednesday, but not her love of singing. The 22-year-old Carson City cosmetologist was cut from the “American Idol” competition on Wednesday’s program, during the group singing auditions, but she already has several singing performances scheduled. “It’s been such great experience,” […]
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By Howard Stutz, Las Vegas Review-Journal The American Gaming Association will launch a national initiative in conjunction with the 2016 presidential campaign aimed at showing the industry’s economic benefits to candidates for the nation’s highest office. The effort, dubbed “Gaming Votes,” is twofold — to educate casino industry employees, vendors and other stakeholders on candidate […]
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By KXTV You won’t find cigarettes and tobacco chew on the store shelves of Raley’s, Bel Air and Nob Hill Foods by the end of February, according to Raley’s. The West Sacramento-based grocery store chain has made the decision to cease sales of tobacco products to promote health and wellness. According to Raley’s public affairs director […]
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By Denise Grady, New York Times However bad you thought smoking was, it’s even worse. A new study adds at least five diseases and 60,000 deaths a year to the toll taken by tobacco in the United States. Before the study, smoking was already blamed for nearly half a million deaths a year in this […]
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Highway 50 in the Tahoe Valley area in the early 1960s had overhead wires and billboards, like the distant Bank of America billboard seen halfway up the right margin. There was a second billboard to the right of that one, out of view here. The gap between the bridge and those billboards was a large […]
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By Kathryn Reed TRUCKEE – Long wooden tables elegantly adorned with place settings, each with four wine glasses, three forks and three knives. This was no ordinary dinner at a ski lodge. Foie gras is coming out of the kitchen, bubbly is being poured. Helena Kletch and JT Chevalier are providing background music. There is […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the Feb. 10, 2015, Los Angeles Times. The Freedom of Information Act, first enacted in 1966, allows the public to see how their government functions — and fails to function — by providing access to official records. In fiscal year 2013, government agencies released some or all of the […]
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Updated Feb. 15 11:45am: Sierra was able to operate on generators when the power failure occurred and never had to stop operations. Power was back on by 5am Sunday. —- An underground failure has knocked out power to residents and businesses in the Echo Summit area, including the upper lifts of Sierra-at-Tahoe. The outage started […]
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The U.S. Forest Service may continue prescribed fire operations in numerous areas around the Lake Tahoe Basin beginning Feb. 17. On the South and West shores of Lake Tahoe, operations may take place north of Tahoma near Elizabeth Drive, southwest of Meeks Bay, on Gardner Mountain near South Tahoe High School and Gardner Street, Christmas […]
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