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Inside, people of middle age drifting haggardly into dotage huddle around video kiosks with racing results beamed in from horse- and greyhound-tracks worldwide (or cable—one patron watched a Sandra Bullock movie). The tiled floor was littered with discarded ticket stubs, and the multi-story gambling lounge smelled like old cigarettes and old people...

Author: By Samuel C. Scott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Wonderful World of Dog Exploitation | 5/18/2006 | See Source »

...particularly miserable Saturday evening, FM slogged through 45-degree temperatures and driven rain to the Wonderland Greyhound Park, a sprawling, Bukowskiesque complex that, like most of its patrons, has seen better days...

Author: By Samuel C. Scott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Wonderful World of Dog Exploitation | 5/18/2006 | See Source »

...animated rendition of Marvin Gaye’s Sexual Healing, allowed guys to let down their guards and get a better feel for one another.Though these bus trips may seem fun to anyone who has never experienced a cross-country trip on a Greyhound or a school trip clear across the country, they can get old real quick. Trust me on that. The longer rides make me long for the days when a “road game” meant hopping on a bus for ten minutes to Northeastern’s campus or really “roughing...

Author: By Frank Herrmann, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: In Minors, Big Wheels Keep on Turnin’ | 5/3/2006 | See Source »

...drag the smitten Boone and his "gorgeous thief" all the way to New York via Tokyo. Supplying comic verve is the book's sometime narrator "Slow Bones" Hugh, Boone's 100-kg idiot-savant brother. Wandering city streets with his folding chair, "I was up and off like a greyhound after an electric hare," says Hugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Literary Steal of Approval | 4/3/2006 | See Source »

...part of Thai culture," says Chaichon Savantrat, whose Good Mixer label has more foreign buyers than Thai, despite being sold mostly in Bangkok. But Senada's Chanita says that 60% of her business is now local, and that number has been growing for the past several years. Greyhound's Bhanu, for his part, has launched more affordable domestic sub-brands. "The marketplace has a lot of potential," says Bhanu. "It's up to the brands to make it happen." It may be happening already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Land of Styles | 2/20/2006 | See Source »

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