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...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 dying out, eclipsed by other, more fashionable games like blackjack and roulette. No one, it seemed, played poker anymore. No one bright or fashionable, that is. But suddenly, thanks to glitzy televised tournaments, a younger generation of hard-core players and a wildly popular version of the game known as Texas Hold...
...current enthusiasm can be traced in part, oddly enough, to last summer's high-profile flop of a market that was supposed to help predict future terrorist attacks. A public backlash killed that Pentagon project a few months before its debut, but not before the media broadcast the notion that useful information embedded within a group of people could be drawn out and organized via a marketplace. Says George Mason's Hanson, who helped design the market: "People noticed." Another predictive market, the Iowa Electronic Markets at the University of Iowa, has been around since 1988. That bourse has accepted...
...Consequently, the Bush campaign has reeked of flop sweat all spring. It has spent a very unpresidential $80 million in dreadful, petty, often misleading negative ads. Kerry was accused of voting to raise taxes 350 times and of cutting a great many defense programs, although Republicans often voted the same way. To be fair, Democratic interest groups like MoveOn.org have also put trashy ads on the air, but the idea that the President of the United States would put his name on such unrelenting sludge is unprecedented. The Bush-Cheney campaign and the Republican National Committee (R.N.C.) send forth...
...problem to be solved by each overweight individual waging a lonely war to trim pounds on the diet du jour. While it's true that we are each responsible for what we put in our own mouth, they note that the personal-responsibility approach has been a big, fat flop. In the past 30 years, the percentage of Americans who are overweight has ballooned from 48% to 65%. The percentage of children who are overweight has tripled, from 5% to 15%, and another 15% are considered borderline...
...blood-sucking demons hunted by Buffy are still hot media properties. Two major films featuring vampires should swoop into theaters this year. And both a DVD collection and a Broadway show are on their way. Although some vampire projects have been staked in the heart (like the Broadway mega-flop Dance of the Vampires), fans still seem batty for the genre. Here's what's coming. --By Desa Philadelphia and Jeffrey Ressner...