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...summer, a season the major studios had generally ceded to cheaper exploitation films. Within a few years, the Jaws model would inspire an industry in which budgets ran wild because the rewards seemed limitless, in which summer action pictures dominated the industry and in which the hottest young directors wanted to make the Great American Blockbuster...
...fact that Beasley has made video poker the hottest issue in the state reflects in part a nationwide backlash against most forms of gambling: it's evident from Oklahoma, where voters in February overwhelmingly rejected a referendum to bring casino gambling to the state, to Michigan, where voters may have a chance this November to overturn a plan for three Detroit casinos. But much of the new resistance has focused on video gambling, which experts have called the crack cocaine of wagering because of its quick and deep hold on players. Four years ago, a statewide referendum in South Carolina...
...hard fall, and no level of society has escaped the pain. The population of more than 200 million people has seen per capita income drop from $1,200 to $300 almost overnight. Tinted-glass towers in the business district of what was last year one of Asia's hottest cities for investors now stand virtually empty. Corporations have no way of repaying the $70 billion they borrowed from foreign banks, and much business has simply ceased. At the other end of the economic scale, poor households have no way of paying the escalating prices for rice and cooking oil that...
...unemployment is down. Peace and prosperity. Who could ask for anything more? But just in case someone does, there's Britain's current boom in the arts. Whether it's movies like the The Full Monty, bands like Oasis and the Spice Girls, or designers like Stella McCartney, the hottest thing going these days seems to come from what is cloyingly known as "cool Britannia." And while Blair admits that this artistic blossoming was under way before he took office, he and his coterie of young advisers have relentlessly, even shamelessly, courted and promoted...
...voyeuristic as Internet sex sites, more addictive than video games and a lot easier to play--and you can win big money! It's online investing, one of the hottest destinations in cyberspace. Ask Ardavan Arianpour of San Diego, Calif., who recently turned $1,000 into $5,000 through point-and-click trading. Arianpour is his own broker, trading as often as he likes and poring over online news, quotes and stock charts. "I just love researching and making money," says Arianpour, who has been piling up profits for retirement. That's still a long way off, though, because...