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This New Vegas, this stomach-churning Vegas, was built from a scrap heap of roller coasters. When gambling popped up at every racetrack and lottery counter and on every riverboat and square foot where...
...supersized, sanitized, nonintimidating version of the same sins I don't want when I'm at home. I am considering taking the beer so I can finally get sick and get the nurse to send me home. This New Vegas, this stomach-churning Vegas, was built from a scrap heap of roller coasters. When gambling popped up at every U.S. racetrack and lottery counter and on every piece of ground where a Native American once lived, Las Vegas had an identity crisis. It built theme parks,believing that if its vices had become acceptable, it might as well turn family...
...love be extinguished by the terrorists’ bombs? Flying through Charles de Gaulle airport, I saw the newly collapsed terminal, its glass shingles cascading into a pile of debris that had yet to be collected and removed by the authorities. I expected to find the same shattered heap at Atocha; rather, everything is intact, the station’s pristine vaulted terminal gleaming in the early summer sunshine...
Reagan won that war not just with radical policies but also with a radically unashamed ideological challenge, the great 1982 Westminster speech predicting that communism would end up in the "ash heap of history" and the subsequent designation of the Soviet Union as the "evil empire." That won him the derision of Western sophisticates, intellectuals and defeatists of all kinds. It also won him the undying admiration of liberation heroes from Vaclav Havel to Natan Sharansky. Rarely does history render such decisive verdicts: Reagan was right, his critics were wrong. Less than a year after he left office, the Berlin...
Those who have seen the site heap praise on UCSF for an enormously successful implementation of a brand-new science expansion. While there are some important differences, Mission Bay and Allston share many similarities: it’s a separate campus centering on the life sciences, and it is being constructed in a run-down section of the city on waterfront property that used to be a railyard...