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...Millionaires are being minted every day in China, and the World Trade Organization predicts the country's booming middle class will boast half a billion people by 2014. "And frankly," says MGM Mirage CEO Terry Lanni, "there's not much to do with that money there to enjoy yourself." Enter Macau, the former Portuguese colony handed over to China in 1999. Last year some 12 million visitors poured into the 23-sq-km territory, whose small contingent of casinos generated $3.6 billion in gaming revenue - three-fourths of what the Vegas Strip managed to pull in. Long a mecca...
...enter the political foe—John Kerry, perhaps, or Ralph Nader, if that’s your thing—who smartly identifies this as an opportune moment to present his own vision for American education, a foil to Bush’s stale and recycled rhetoric. He points out the obvious: that true education isn’t just about leaving no child behind, but about moving all children forward—about actively encouraging a culture of excellence...
When the officer stopped to address her, the woman pointed at the suspect’s car and said the man inside had tried to get her to enter the car with him. The woman advised the officer to approach the car immediately because the man inside the car was talking to another woman at the time...
...attacking midfielders best remembered for their dazzling goals. German fans and international cognoscenti will certainly concur that their country's greatest ever footballer is Franz Beckenbauer, who patrolled in front of his defense in order to win the ball for his midfield. By contrast, the only Brazilian defenders who enter the pantheon of greats are those such as Junior and Roberto Carlos, remembered not for the goals they prevented but for those they scored on joining the attack. Dutch legend status, by contrast, is shared by strikers such as Johan Cruyff and Marco Van Basten, midfielders Johan Neeskens and Ruud...
International Festival participants are formally invited, but any performer can enter the Festival Fringe--provided a venue is available. This year's Fringe catalog lists more than 25,000 performances of nearly 1,700 shows, including theater from Montenegro and Kosovo, electronic music from France and comedy from Japan. School groups, amateurs and even a few professionals conjure up some very creative venues. Among last year's hits were Ladies and Gents, a play set in cleaned-up public toilets, and hourly poetry readings, magic shows and even short filmsall done in an elevator...