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...learn a lot about gambling if you're willing to analyze 27 million hands of online poker. Don't have time for that? No worries; sociology doctoral student Kyle Siler of Cornell University has done it for you. His counterintuitive message: the more hands you win, the more money you're likely to lose - and this has implications that go well beyond a hand of cards...
News of the impending audit comes on the heels of the University's decision to sell $480 million of debt to finance construction projects at the Law School and other operating costs...
...some Tylenol pills they took were laced with cyanide. (CYANIDE!) The case was never solved—and the $100,000 reward offered by Johnson & Johnson for finding the culprit was never claimed. At the time, Lewis became associated with the case because he wrote a letter demanding $1 million from Johnson & Johnson to stop the killings. He spent over a decade behind bars for this act of extortion, but he was never tried or convicted for the actual murders. That may soon change...
...hours of the clampdown, 71 people were arrested at police checkpoints across the country for carrying firearms. Many of those nabbed pleaded ignorance, but the authorities have vowed zero tolerance for violators of the ban that suspends licenses to carry firearms in public - and there are over 1 million registered handguns and rifles in the Philippines - until June 9, the last day of the official election period after the May 10 polls. Until then, only on-duty members of the security forces and licensed private security guards may carry firearms. (See pictures of last year's devastating floods in Manila...
...many Filipinos, owning a firearm is both a status symbol and perceived as a necessary means of protection, says Lim. The police estimate there are over a million illegal firearms on the loose. Though trust-building and improvements to efficiency have been implemented to improve the police force's image in recent years, there is still a deep public skepticism over the competency of the force...