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...tightly controlled tour groups. A surge is under way?the number of mainland tourists to the former colony nearly doubled between 2000 and 2003. Last year, gaming revenues at Macau's 12 casinos increased 27% to $3.8 billion. Compare that with Vegas, where the 22 major casinos saw a mere 2.4% increase to $4.7 billion last year. Each table in Macau pulls in $22,100 a day compared with the $2,200 Vegas average...
Harvard certainly owes its women a strong institutional commitment to gender equality, but the Women’s Center as a mere token gesture hardly constitutes this kind of commitment. While proponents’ goals merit support, the Women’s Center does...
...also offended that the authors would equate ‘mere convenience’ with the aforementioned plight of transgendered individuals attempting to find a safe bathroom. For one thing, a straight, non-gender queer individual can easily enter an opposite-gender marked single occupancy restroom and, if approached on exit, shrug and explain that he/she really had to go; I have done it in gas stations, and really nobody cares. But a trans individual (or even a queer individual such as myself) trying to enter a public, multiple-occupancy restroom faces the threat of verbal and physical abuse, angry...
...Asset Stripping A U.S. executive of insurance titan Swiss Re sued a New York City lap-dance palace, claiming the club's bogus charges left him with a bill for $28,000. He said he owed a mere...
...little bit of advanced planning here. My mother’s been bugging me about my poor time management for years, and it’s only now that the so-called “best years of my life” have been reduced to a mere tally of hours that I’m beginning to see what she meant. It’s the time of year where pollen and nostalgia are in the air, and it’s hard not to get a bit teary-eyed from both. I was given 1,080 days...