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...facing stiff competition from a flurry of neighboring states, such as Pennsylvania, Delaware, West Virginia and Maryland, that have been expanding their gaming operations beyond slot machines to include table games. At the same time, other states, such as Massachusetts and Rhode Island, are expected to legalize gambling to fill budget shortfalls...
...with. It’s not like the experience of watching a cop show, when we’re relatively willing to accept that it’s perfectly common for detectives to start shooting at people with little to no provocation—and, of course, never to fill out any paperwork...
...book, among others, to the “Cage”—which is, thankfully, not nearly as intimidating as it sounds. Should you ask, you’ll be escorted to the back of the library into a series of offices that most patrons never see. Fill out the appropriate form, and you’ll be seated at a long conference table to read. As you flip the pages, the avuncular man in the corner office will chat about what he’ll have for lunch...
University administrators provided little information on the searches to fill these three vacant positions, though information about the openings was posted online for applicants...
...fascinating study published in the current issue of Science helps fill in a bit of the picture, drawing evidence from that research-friendly fellow mammal, the mouse. The authors, a team from State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, wanted to look at whether the ability to learn is affected by changes in brain chemistry that occur at puberty. They devised a task that was relatively complex (at least for a mouse) and required learning how to avoid a moving platform that delivered a very mild shock. (See the top 10 animal stories...