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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...physical therapists. In Minneapolis companies are hiring directly from temporary help agencies--and paying fat premiums to do so. Skilled workers from carpenters to croupiers are in high demand as the good times have brought booms--and frequent overcrowding--to housing markets and entertainment centers from the casinos of Las Vegas and, yes, St. Louis, Missouri, to the theme parks of Orlando...
...recent Sunday edition of the Arizona Gazette carried 46 pages of help-wanted ads with large sections devoted to health-care professionals, software engineers and telemarketers. Machine-shop operators in Colorado are hurting for skilled workers--and weeping because they can't find them fast enough to expand. Las Vegas, which already boasts more than 100,000 hotel rooms (as many as San Francisco and New York City combined), has become a construction worker's dream, with plans to add 21,000 more rooms in the next two years...
After a recent whirl of travel that included a speech in Las Vegas and a meeting in Switzerland, Gates detoured to a secluded resort in New York's Adirondacks to spend a weekend with Melinda and Jennifer. There they played with 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzles from a craftsman in Vermont who makes them for customers like Gates. Melinda has helped broaden her husband. Instead of studying biotechnology together, they find time to take singing lessons...
...religious conflict in taking advantage of the empty roads and short lines for the Disney attractions. Equally important, the trip would provide us Something To Do on a day when most everything eager tourists might visit is closed. After all, like the hospital emergency room and the Las Vegas casino, Disneyland is open 365 days a year...
...Philadelphia. The award-winning calendar highlighted objects from the museum's collection, including the skeleton of twins fused at the head and a wax model of a patient with syphilitic leukoplakia of the tongue (above). The calendar sold thousands of copies and won fans as diverse as the Las Vegas magician Teller (of Penn & Teller) and Harvard University professor of biology Stephen Jay Gould, who calls them "works of art." The calendars earned as much as $15,000 annually for the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, of which the Mutter is a part...