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...time. Some even find that impending motherhood is the wake-up call that spurs them to straighten out their lives. But not Moody, who treated her pregnancies as little more than temporary inconveniences. Even with a swollen belly that turned her streetwise walk into a waddle, Moody could attract customers. "Some men are into pregnant women," she notes dispassionately. Her second baby, Cartez, was born on July 2 nine years ago, and Vanessa was back on the street on the 4th, while her distraught mother and sister Debbie took care of the newborn. "I was still bleeding...
...duplicate the world's most famous locales [SHOW BUSINESS, Oct. 26]. I've been going to Vegas for more than 30 years, and I think guys like Wynn have gone too far. It is ludicrous to create billion-dollar facsimiles of famous places. I predict this attempt to attract baby boomers like me will fail miserably. MARK THOMAS Oakland, Calif...
...doubt this new, arty Vegas will attract the likes of the Astors and Rockefellers, and Joe Blow from Omaha may be a little intimidated. Steve Wynn and the other corporate boys are going to need some of the luck that everybody wishes for when they go to Las Vegas. They may have created a no-man's-land. SUZANNE W. MCCARTHY Winston-Salem...
...nice to see entrepreneurs keep trying to elevate Vegas above the rest of the gambling resorts with new luxury hotels, but when I read how they are trying to attract the "big spenders," it kind of irks me. It's the middle class that made Vegas what it is today, as well as all the people who work there. The big spenders will come and go. The baby boomers may raise families and be free of children, but for the most part, they will still be middle class. I hope the folks in Vegas don't forget that. JEFF HARRIS...
BRASILIA, Brazil: Now the IMF is throwing money at investors. Desperate to attract traders after months of dithering that stalled its planned $30 billion bailout of Brazil, the fund Friday announced it had upped the ante to a whopping $41 billion. FORTUNE writer Nelson Schwartz says the extra cash should do the trick -- not just by filling Brazil's coffers, but by warming investors' hearts...