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...These are people who aren't telling co-workers they plan to see Star Trek: Nemesis, the 10th Trek film, which opens Friday. They won't admit they watch UPN's Enterprise, the sixth--sixth--TV series in the franchise. They tell buddies they are going to Vegas for blackjack and bourbon but instead dwell in the celestial sanctuary of Star Trek: The Experience, an indoor theme park that has drawn 2.3 million visitors since opening...
...Star Trek: Nemesis, the 10th Trek film, which opened in the U.S. last week and debuts in Europe over the next few weeks. They won't admit they watch Enterprise, the sixth - sixth - TV series in the franchise. They tell buddies they are going to Vegas for blackjack and bourbon but instead dwell in the celestial sanctuary of Star Trek: The Experience, an indoor theme park that has drawn 2.3 million visitors since opening in 1998. They may even find urgent business reasons to be in London this week when "Star Trek - The Adventure" - the largest-ever interactive exhibition...
...recent election, Arizona voters approved more slot machines, as well as tables for blackjack and poker. In Tennessee, one of only three states that had no legal gambling, voters overwhelmingly accepted a state lottery for next year. Critics have long argued that gambling revenues are a mixed blessing, increasing revenue but amounting to a tax on those who can least afford...
Besides baseball and hospitals, perhaps the most obvious application of statistics is to gambling. In the 1960s, Morris and Cover frequently capitalized on their knowledge of statistics at the blackjack table. “We’d get kicked out of casinos for counting cards,” Morris recalls. “[Cover] is a great gambler. Back then, they’d deal one deck down to the last card, so sometimes you knew exactly what...
...Vice Fund have, in aggregate, appreciated about four times as much as the S&P 500--and nearly 11 times as much as those in the Domini 400 index of socially responsible stocks. While more than 90% of the Vice Fund's holdings will be in battleships, blackjack, booze and butts, its managers plan to hedge a bit into stocks like Harley-Davidson. "It's not really a vice," fund co-manager Dan Ahrens, 36, admits. "But I think the Harley Hogs probably like drinking and smoking." --By Bill Barol...