Mr. Loughner spent his adolescence just north of Tucson, in a community where a flat carpet of strip malls and low subdivisions dissolves at its fringes into dirt roads and rolling, saguaro-spiked desert.

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Anxious casino executives were pleading with Higgins to help fend off the rolling blackouts that were hitting California: A dark half-hour on the Strip could mean tens of millions of gaming dollars lost, not to mention a security nightmare.

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For 96 miles we wended our way through rolling hills covered with kelly-green acacia, finally arriving at Monkey Mia, a strip of white-sand beach where bottle-nosed dolphins come every morning to beg for fish.

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