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...will the Palazzo. The MGM Grand and the Mandalay Bay have almost entirely shed their film and Asian themes.) "I wanted to build the ultimate party place," says George Maloof, 40, the brother who runs the hotel. "I wanted to make sure I cultivated young Hollywood. In the '70s, '80s and most of the '90s, Hollywood didn't really come to Las Vegas except for a big fight. Now it's every weekend...
...Strip and gave it no theme, figuring Vegas visitors would find out which hotel fit their demographic. (Wynn will also be unthemed, as will the Palazzo.) "I wanted to make sure I cultivated young Hollywood," says George Maloof, 40, the brother who runs the hotel. "In the '70s, '80s and most of the '90s, Hollywood didn't really come to Las Vegas except for a big fight. Now it's every weekend." Maloof made the Palms a hipster draw by housing the 2002 edition of MTV's Real World in the hotel, a move the rest of Vegas thought...
...1960s, the big action shifted from downtown to the Strip, where casinos such as the Dunes and the Stardust offered a variation of the game called Seven-Card Lowball, also known as Razz. Then came the boom in blackjack and the beginning of poker's decline. By the late '80s and early '90s, during Las Vegas' ill-fated attempt to turn itself into a family destination, tourists seemed to have lost patience with the game's sleazy Wild West flavor. With revenues declining, several casinos closed their poker rooms. Then, within the past 18 months, after the explosion in Internet...
...with a small group of friends, began surfing big swells off the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii, in the 1950s and '60s, riding waves up to 30 ft. high. But with the boards and techniques available then, it was not possible to go much higher. In the '70s and '80s surfers instead sought to conquer challenges on smaller waves with a range of turning and tube-riding maneuvers. Then in the early '90s came Laird Hamilton, a blond, 6-ft. 3-in., 220-lb. former model and surfing prodigy, who brought big-wave surfing crashing back onto center stage...
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has spent two years on a delicate diplomatic mission: negotiating the release of Japanese citizens kidnapped in the 1970s and '80s by North Korea. That effort has produced an unintended result: a looming extradition battle with the U.S. Among those freed is Charles Jenkins, who is accused by Washington of deserting from the U.S. Army and defecting to North Korea in 1965. On July 18, Jenkins was expected to land at Tokyo's Haneda Airport with his wife, former abductee Hitomi Soga, 45, and their children Mika, 21, and Belinda...