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07/13/2008

Loving Las Vegas pools when it sizzles
I spent many a summer as a boy visiting my aunt in Las Vegas, so it's not just crazy gamblers (OK, mostly crazy gamblers) who venture to Sin City during its blazing-hottest midsummer madness. Just make sure you have a good dip on the Strip (or beyond).

Museum tells story of Nevada as nuclear test site
LAS VEGAS – The movie Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has rekindled interest in the Cold War atomic tests. Those experiments sent 100 mushroom clouds into the skies near Las Vegas from 1951 to 1962, and then shook it with underground tests until 1992, when testing was halted. In all, 928 blasts were triggered over, at and above the Nevada Test Site. Located just 65 miles north of the Strip, it's probably the most nuclear-bombed site in the world.

07/06/2008

Hefner hotel room in Vegas: $40,000

AP/File

What does $40,000 buy? If you're a well-heeled traveler, it's one night at the Hugh Hefner Sky Villa, a two-story, 10,000-square-foot hideaway with a $700,000 cantilevered Jacuzzi that juts out toward the Las Vegas Strip, a rotating bed beneath a mirrored ceiling and around-the-clock butler service.

06/29/2008

Summer activities are plentiful in Vail, Colo.

06/08/2008

Nobody's Inn in Durango, Colo.: no fuss, no frills, plenty of privacy
This is Nobody's Inn, and nobody's in but me, and I'm in Somebody's Room because I'm somebody.

03/13/2008

Las Vegas dining: From expensive to cheap, here's where to eat

Bellagio Las Vegas

The walls of Picasso restaurant in the Bellagio Las Vegas are adorned with the paintings and gouaches by the famous artist.

Sometimes you beat the casinos. Sometimes they beat you. Either way, you have to eat. Here's where to go.
Fine dining: Where the winners eat
Mid-priced dining: Where to eat if you break even
Cheap eats: Where to eat if you lose big

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