Word: dices
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...sounds like a homework problem out of a high school math book: What is the probability of rolling a pair of dice 154 times continuously at a craps table, without throwing a seven...
...trillion, and on May 23, Patricia Demauro, a New Jersey grandmother, beat those odds at Atlantic City's Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa. Demauro's 154-roll lucky streak, which lasted four hours and 18 minutes, broke the world records for the longest craps roll and the most successive dice rolls without "sevening out." According to Stanford University statistics professor Thomas Cover, the chances of that happening are smaller than getting struck by lightning (one in a million), being hit by an errant ball at a baseball game (one in 1.5 million) or winning the lottery (one in 100 million...
...also notes the Chinese government seems to be loosening its tight visa restrictions on Chinese visitors. "We'll continue to see recovery because of these macro factors," Fischer says. "We have turned the corner." But predicting the future of Macau's gambling industry is a lot like rolling dice...
...current efforts to broker a unity government backed by both Fatah and Hamas. But as things stand, the U.S. wants that government to endorse the same principles it has demanded that Hamas embrace as a precondition for recognition: Recognize Israel, renounce violence and abide by previous agreements. No dice, says Hamas, which has its own ideas about how to achieve peace, but on terms the Israelis are unlikely to accept. With Hamas in the ascendancy and the U.S.-allied Abbas in the weaker position, the Administration will likely struggle to implement its vision at both ends of the Israeli-Palestinian...
...scoop day in honor of Opening Day a little anticlimactic. According to their Web site, J.P. Licks will be serving $1 scoops of ice cream and frozen yogurt today at all their locations from noon-9pm. If flavors like “rice DICE Kream” and “Pedroia’s Passion Fruit” aren’t enough to get you in the door, then maybe “the most fun pie ever” will...