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...health workers and researchers fear pathological gambling could reach epidemic proportions in coming years. Macau's success has inspired other Asian cities and countries to allow new casinos. In Vietnam, a $4 billion luxury gaming resort will open near Ho Chi Minh City in 2009. Ground has already been broken for a pair of casino complexes in Singapore. The Philippine government is planning to open a 100-acre (405,000-square-meter) gaming complex that will employ 40,000 Filipinos in Manila Bay. In an attempt to lure Chinese gamblers over the border, Kazakhstan is creating the "Las Vegas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Stakes | 11/1/2007 | See Source »

...been a long week, and Halloween weekend or no, I was tired. But when my blockmates ran back from our dining hall to announce that a fight had broken out in the party hosted by the Harvard Society of Black Scientists and Engineers (HSBSE), I leapt off of my bed in jeans and a sweatshirt to investigate. Seconds after we poked our heads out of our entryway into Lowell courtyard, a police officer was marching towards us. “You kids live in the dorm?” and when we nodded our assent, “You better...

Author: By Weslie M.W. Turner | Title: Dancing Around Lowell Courtyard | 11/1/2007 | See Source »

...wife's Uncle Pinky has the same bottle opener, and it went off spontaneously in a kitchen drawer this summer, so that a disoriented Pinky - roused from sleep at 3 o'clock in the morning - thought Red Sox announcer Joe Castiglione had broken into his house. And here's the thing: Pinky was disappointed to learn that he hadn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Married to the Red Sox | 10/31/2007 | See Source »

...Shamima Khan of the World Bank's Juba office. In the absence of war, analysts say the key to Juba's future prosperity is the prevention of corruption and the mismanagement of oil money. The southern government also has to find non-oil sources of revenue and to repair broken-down infrastructure. South Sudan literally has to build a nation from dust and rubble. It has yet to implement a system of income taxes and trade duties to regulate the economy. Still, Juba's potential is radiating beyond its borders, and a bustling cross-country trade is under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Sudan Is Booming | 10/31/2007 | See Source »

...want to win and I want Harvard soccer to win so the best thing for this team is that the record gets broken as soon as possible...

Author: By Jay M. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Women's Keeper Aims for Shutout Record | 10/30/2007 | See Source »

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