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...with a regulation basketball court until the owners decided to turn it into a club. "In real estate, the land goes to the highest and best use," explains co-owner Peter Feinstein. Now instead of collecting gym fees, he charges women $60 to $100 a night to sell $20 lap dances, along with the more profitable revenue stream from drinks and a $5 ATM fee that almost makes usury a sin again. He does not, however, get the $20 entrance fee nonlocals pay at the door; that goes right to the back of the casino to the taxi driver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Strip Is Back! | 7/26/2004 | See Source »

...show of gentlemanliness, I offer to help the slightly uncomfortable teachers secure a lap dance for the divorce. In a slight downgrade of my gentlemanliness, I never return to the women, instead using my awesome reporter's notebook ($2.99; any drugstore) to talk to a stripper for the next two hours. "To someone from Minnesota we're sluts, but in Vegas this is a respectable job to the locals," says Sami, 33, who is known as the Fire Bitch because of her ability to light on fire a surprising number of her body parts. Sami says she's not that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Strip Is Back! | 7/26/2004 | See Source »

...have their logos plastered on cars and drivers' overalls. In Barcelona in May, for example, Schumacher led the race from beginning to end. Three weeks later he did the same in Nurburgring. And after winning at Silverstone in Britain last week, he figures to take another victory lap at the Grand Prix in Hockenheim, Germany, next Sunday. "It certainly does ruin the suspense," says Mario Andretti, the last American driver to win the F1 world championship, back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speed Kills (All The Fun) | 7/26/2004 | See Source »

...mega-gym until the owners decided to turn it into a club. "In real estate, the land goes to the highest and best use," explains co-owner Peter Feinstein. Now, instead of gym fees, he charges women $60 to $100 a night to sell $20 lap dances, and draws on more profitable revenue streams such as drinks and a $5 atm fee that almost makes usury a sin again. He does not, however, get the $20 cover charge nonlocals pay; as at all Vegas strip clubs, that goes to the taxi driver who dropped his riders off. Driving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lovin' Las Vegas | 7/25/2004 | See Source »

...legions of cameramen and photographers staking out the crime scene if the public is to be convinced that everything is under control. Even as the criminals are outwitting them at every turn, the cops feed doctored film and canned interviews to a frenzied media horde all too willing to lap up the lies. The cops and robbers dutifully put on a cops-and-robbers show. Think Die Hard?but written by Marshall McLuhan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blast from the Past | 6/28/2004 | See Source »

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