Word: doubledealing
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Jeff Shulman, president of Las Vegas-based Card Player magazine, says subscriptions have doubled to 7,500 in the past five months. He believes poker's new players have brought a more vibrant spirit to the casinos. "Now there are a lot more maniacs and they're winning much more...
Doctors have long suspected that the malaria problem was getting worse, but the most searing proof has come to light in just the past year. Researchers believe the average number of cases of malaria per year in Africa has quadrupled since the 1980s. A study in the journal Lancet last...
Letterboxing is said to have started in England 150 years ago when a Victorian walker left a bottle by Cranmere Pool, Devon, with his calling card in it and an invitation to those who found the bottle to add theirs. It caught on in the U.S. after a 1998 article...
(2 of 4) Sexification has helped put Vegas on course for a record year in visitors, after having 35.5 million last year. Billy Vassiliadis, the ad man whose firm came up with Vegas' logo and who is known around town as Billy V., insists: "It's not about sex, it...
It was seen as a gritty pastime for middle-aged men, played in smoky back rooms with battered cards and grimy stacks of chips. The game reeked of flop sweat, cheap whiskey and chewed cigar stubs. And not long ago, in Las Vegas casinos at least, it came close to...