40 wounded soldiers from veterans hospitals in Washington flew in a private jet to Las Vegas over the weekend for an all-expenses-paid getaway, thanks to the Sands hotel chairman Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam. The Armed Forces Foundation officials who organized the trip, said the dream holiday eventually would be extended by the Adelsons to every veteran who had been admitted to the two D.C.-area hospitals. (Full story in the Associated Press)