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Flocking to Vegas, not to wager but to commit suicide - 2004-02-08
Lawrence Orbe didn't go to the Las Vegas Strip with the intention of winning big. He didn't come for the strippers or over-the-top entertainment.
Experts state that some may have been seeking a final sign not to pull the trigger or tie the noose: A jackpot, blackjack or smile. Anything.

"You're in a place that nobody cares. It's not famous for being warm and fuzzy. It's a place you can be anonymous and die," insists David P. Phillips, a sociologist at the University of California at San Diego, who co-wrote a 1997 study that discovered Las Vegas had a peak level of suicide in the nation for residents and visitors.
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Harvick's highs and lows are not on par with a competition - 2004-02-08
He staggered out of the gate big time, with solely four top fives in the season's first 15 weeks, provoking a March crew chief change by moving Gil Martin out and Todd Berrier in. Eighteen successive top-20 efforts later, Harvick was sitting second in points going into the final four weeks of the year.

Keep in mind, though, that since the late 1990s Childress has been prone to unexpectedly shuffling RCR crewmen like a Bellagio blackjack dealer, and if things begin slowing down it may occur again.
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