Las Vegas burning: Lessons in resilience from the nation’s driest big city

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By Greg HanscomApr 29, 2014, 7:01 am111 pts
“They’re coming for the burn,” my old friend Adam says. We’re looking out across the broad, sun-beaten flats, watching the crowds file in. They’ve come across the playas, over the basin and range country, up through the palo verde and Joshua tree forests. They’ve traveled hundreds, sometimes…

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