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The answer is roughly 1 in 1.56 trillion, and on May 23, Patricia Demauro, a New Jersey grandmother, beat those odds at Atlantic City's Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa. Demauro's 154-roll lucky streak, which lasted four hours and 18 minutes, broke the world records for the longest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holy Craps! How a Gambling Grandma Broke the Record | 5/29/2009 | See Source »

This burgeoning of national high-speed networks is allowing trains to challenge airlines on shorter trips even before deregulation comes into force. The Eurostar service - the lucrative 21⁄4-hour route between London and Paris - already controls 70% of the travel market between the two capitals. Opened in 2007...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: European Train Travel: Working on the Railroad | 5/28/2009 | See Source »

As railroads begin competing on price and quality of service, the big winners are bound to be passengers. Further deregulation is in store: in 2012, national markets, not just international routes, are slated to be opened to more competition. "Travel as we've known it recently is being turned on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: European Train Travel: Working on the Railroad | 5/28/2009 | See Source »

The 130-ft. (40 m) Nava Mekong launched this year and sails twice daily, journeying two hours upstream between high hills forested with teak trees, and past fishermen casting their nets from tiny craft. Among the destinations are the Pak Ou caves, where a brace of limestone grottoes houses thousands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cruise in Style along Laos' Mekong River | 5/28/2009 | See Source »

The costs to Beijing of kicking the North Korea can down the road by negotiating endlessly within the six-party talks were, with Washington's support, minimal. But now Beijing has plainly lost face; as Romberg says, it has probably been humiliated by Pyongyang. That's why diplomats in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Gropes for a Response to North Korea's Nukes | 5/28/2009 | See Source »

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