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Believing Las Vegas

PBS explores the city where reality is as astonishing as mythology

By Mark Feeney
Globe Staff / November 13, 2005

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What may be the emblematic Las Vegas moment occurred almost half a century ago. Oddly enough, it happened 1,400 miles from the Strip, but that's part of what makes the moment emblematic: Las Vegas has never been a location so much as a state of mind. (Full article: 2273 words)

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