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...amenities to inspire or motivate the young. A history teacher at East St. Louis' Martin Luther King Jr. High School, he notes, has 110 students in four classes, and only 26 books. Every year, says a teacher in a nearby school, "there's one more toilet that doesn't flush, one more drinking fountain that doesn't work, one more classroom without texts...
...need be, putting it back into play. Prairies and bur oak woodlands, for instance, were both created by fire. Without fire, their bright flowers and luxuriant grasses are shaded out by invading brush. Where in centuries past roving bands of Plains Indians set fire to the prairies to flush out game, today preserve managers and teams of volunteers set restored grasslands ablaze...
Housed in hotels and shelters throughout the country, the bewildered immigrants are pondering flush toilets, pay phones and a pace of life that seems breathtaking. "We must learn everything," says Kasfi Sheto, 28, who reacts to the sensory overload with a fixed smile. For now he seems content with the multicolored and ill-fitting outfit he plucked from a huge pile of donated clothing. "All we want is to be Israeli...
...competitive hype points to a harsh reality: as surely as a flush beats a straight, some of the riverboat ventures are destined to fold. "I am concerned about saturation if every state gets it," admits Bernard Goldstein, owner of Emerald Lady and Diamond Lady, which docks in Bettendorf, Iowa. Michael Jones, director of the Illinois state lottery through the mid-1980s, warns that the potential audience for the novelty cruises may be smaller than boosters imagine. For one thing, he notes, lottery players and higher-stakes gamblers are different animals. While lottery enthusiasts may sample riverboat gambling once or twice...
...among the 360 participants is better equipped for the slot battle than Wickham, who owns a Jackson, N.J., sewer business whose motto somehow says it all: "If You Ain't on Our S--- List, You're No Friend of Ours." Clearly, here's a man who knows a royal flush when he sees one. But his real game, the one he has sharpened through 20 tournaments during the past four years, is the slots. "My strategy is to play as fast as I can," says the self-proclaimed Slot King...