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...shaving. Dozens of athletes have been convicted or suspended. When you follow the money in these cases, it leads to one place: Nevada. That's because student athletes profit from legal bets placed in Las Vegas and Reno casinos, and, far more significantly, bookies in the other 49 states funnel illegal bets into those casinos to protect themselves from having to pay out on unlikely winners at high odds...
...deep in the weeds of his own operation; a major vendor says Bush okays every piece of direct mail himself. "I thought Al Gore was the one who was writing all the bumper-sticker slogans," said a disgruntled G.O.P. operative, "but it turns out to be W." The narrow funnel to the top slows everything down and suggests the principal has no confidence in his troops--a bad signal to send everyone else...
...manager for optical switches, David Charlton, in a few years a single strand of fiber will be able to handle all the voice traffic in the U.S. Sure, all sorts of new services will be available over the Web, and wireless appliances will be coming online that have to funnel through a land-based optical-fiber network at some point. But what if all this happens in five to seven years instead of two to three? Can somebody say B2B shakeout all over again? Tom Nolle, president of the consulting firm CIMI, warns that there is too much bandwidth capacity...
...managed to make several visits to the U.S., where her son and husband continue to reside. Meanwhile she has allegedly explored new routes and techniques for getting people into the U.S. Police and immigration officials say Ping and other snakeheads have made an alliance with Serbian officials and now funnel several planeloads of immigrants a day through Belgrade to Europe and the U.S. One new method the snakeheads allegedly pioneered is the use of cargo containers to smuggle people. Last month 58 Chinese suffocated in a container being driven from the Netherlands to Britain. Sister Ping has not been connected...
...Pennypacker's central circular staircase is a great place for congregating. And people do. "The Pack's" bright landings are full of people at all hours, and a four-story beer funnel makes an appearance on its open stairwell once a year or so. Pennypacker's rooms are not massive, but their quirky shapes offer a change of pace from the standard Yard dorms...