Word: emeralds
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Mark Twain and Charlie Chaplin look-alikes, trailed by a freckle-faced Huck Finn, greet passengers as they come up the gangplank of the Mississippi River's newest paddle-wheeler, Emerald Lady. A Dixieland band lays down tune after tune, while a jokester on stilts tosses colorful doubloons. Waitresses with feathers jutting from their hair sashay through wood-paneled rooms, offering cocktails. As the riverboat pulls out of Fort Madison, Iowa, and steams up and down the Mississippi on a three-hour excursion into the 19th century, it is easy to get swept up in the hoopla. So easy that...
With the launch of the Emerald Lady last month, Fort Madison became the fourth of Iowa's Mississippi River towns to take a chance on riverboat gambling as a lure for tourism and a cure for economic woes. The others launched floating casinos on April Fools' Day. Now all are praying the joke won't be on them. Iowa's notion of melding nostalgic river travel with America's gambling addiction is already stoking competition up and down the river. Among the potential ventures...
...Iowa's boats, with low betting limits and small capacities (Emerald Lady can comfortably accommodate only 700 passengers; President, 1,600), pose little threat to Las Vegas and Atlantic City. But as the new industry expands, it could change America's recreation and travel patterns, drawing tourists and gamblers away from the tawdry glitz of traditional gambling towns. To prevent the seediness and crime that often accompany casino gambling, Iowa legislators have capped wagers at $5, and Fort Madison's planning and zoning board is drafting a new ordinance to ban neon signs. "This is a family affair," says Dick...
...wrote that if the center chooses Mt. Graham to house its telescope, Harvard-Smithsonian Center would use its influence with the U.S. Forest Service to allow development of Emerald Peak. In exchange, Harvard-Smithsonian would receive telescope equipment or viewing time on Arizonia's Max-Planck Radioastronomic Submillimeter...
...telescopes that could eventually occupy Emerald Peak, the top of the 10,720-foot Mt. Graham 75 miles northeast of Tucson, is designed by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics...