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...York City, a leading consulting firm to the gaming industry, figures that all kinds of wagering (except friendly bets between individuals) have increased a thumping 57% in the past five years. Casinos took in more than half of all bets, or $164 billion; sports gambling was a distant second with a $28 billion take, up 57% from 1983. Though impressive, that increase was dwarfed by a 98% jump in the coins clinked into slot machines, a 103% rise in legal bookmaking and a 228% leap in money wagered in cardrooms...
While astronomers who study the sun get more attention during periods of solar maximums, they generally feel somewhat neglected, underfunded and unappreciated, poor cousins to those who observe distant stars and galaxies in the night skies and who consider the sun boring. Then why do solar astronomers persist? "We are driven to an understanding of the sun," says Robert Howard, an astronomer at the National Solar Observatory in Tucson. "It is an enormous lab. It is a Rosetta stone for the study of the stars. With other stars, all you have is a pinpoint of light. By understanding more about...
Scarred by his childhood memories, Wayne remains distant from the rest of the world. At his own black-tie benefit, Wayne wanders around without speaking to his guests, and when the gorgeous blonde photographer Vicky Vale (Kim Bassinger) asks where she can find the host, he gives her a confused look and conceals his identity. Later, when he invites Vale to dinner, they sit at opposite ends of a long table, unable to see or hear each other...
...stories Trevor selects stretch from the distant past to the here and now, although the emphasis falls decidedly on 20th century works. Thus some brief tales translated from the original Gaelic lead to a succession of pieces by well-known names (Oliver Goldsmith, Maria Edgeworth, Oscar Wilde) and then to such acknowledged modern masterpieces as James Joyce's The Dead and Frank O'Connor's The Majesty of the Law. The familiar mixes easily with material less so: William Carleton's eerie The Death of a Devotee, Bernard Mac Laverty's grim Life Drawing. All this diversity is held together...
This statement seems to capture both sides of the 'good Harvard-bad Harvard' coin. Most students find that friends, or extracurriculars, or being sociable, or living on their own constituted their best education. The flip side is inevitably Harvard's failure to educate--due to its large classes, distant faculty and ill-conceived Core curriculum...