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...English professor father, a mother hooked on crossword puzzles, solitaire, and scotch and two older siblings who rob their mother’s purse. All gamblers and all fiercely competitive, the family becomes split after the kids go to college and the parents divorce. It is in the central hub of American gambling—Las Vegas—that the family comes back together for their love of betting and winning. Lederer’s thoughtful prose describes in vivid, poignant detail all the hardships of finding one’s place in the world. The book will...
...problems, but not to this extent. So far, during the first 17 years of my life, all spent in Karachi, I have never?and, I am sure, never will?witness what you describe. Social work is taking place in Karachi, which is now the main seaport, industrial and financial hub of the country. The city boasts several top-notch educational institutions, its standard of living is increasing and security is getting better. I invite you to visit, and assure you of complete peace. Marya Husain Karachi
...else in my immediate family is tall and exceedingly trim. And, as if our disgust with the overfed were genetically predetermined, we have all had run-ins. Take my brother, for example, who while spending the summer on his college campus at University of California at San Diego (a hub for summer teen overweight camps), found a cruel humor in luring the fat kids away from the basketball courts with fattening candy bars so that he and his friends could use the space themselves...
Crone said a medical center in Dubai will be able to serve as a hub for a region covering Eastern Europe to Bangladesh and Central Asia to North Africa...
...massive job losses that followed reunification mean that the Berlin city government is still paying unemployment benefits to 10% of the population and welfare payments to another 8%. More recently, Berlin erred by extensively subsidizing the construction of office buildings and apartments. Politicians predicted the city would become a hub for German business when the government moved from Bonn in 1999, but the boom never materialized. The result: more than 1 million sq m of office space now sits empty and many of the 210,000 new subsidized apartments are unrented. Yet new buildings are still going...