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...millions of gambling chips tossed on blackjack and baccarat tables in its cavernous casinos, the constant thumping from the construction of five-star hotels and luxury apartments and the hubbub of the crowds of tourists who jam the narrow streets of this tiny Chinese enclave mix to create the roar of fortunes being made. This is the sound of one of the greatest gambling booms in history. The casinos in Macau take in more money than those of the Las Vegas Strip and Atlantic City combined...
...sons will wind up dealing cards for a living instead of becoming bankers or policemen. "Working in a casino will have a bad influence on them," Ng says. There may be little, though, that he can do. Bruce Springsteen, in his classic song Atlantic City, tells of the dangerous mix of vice and hope that the casinos brought to the New Jersey shore. "Down here it's just winners and losers and don't get caught on the wrong side of that line," he sings. In Macau, too many are already on the wrong side...
...auto-industry cuts has walloped white collar engineers and researchers who call Oakland County home. Take a drive through the hardest-hit neighborhoods, and you'll see blocks on which one-third or more of the houses have a FOR SALE sign planted in their front yard. The mix of layoffs and a depressed real estate market has forced some highly trained workers to take jobs in other states and leave their families behind in unsold homes...
...moments like that one--when coke and kids mix, brought together in Carr's life and his language--that you realize how successfully he has woven his tale. If the reporting device started out as a "fig leaf," to keep him from obsessing about "adding to a growing pile of junkie memoirs," it doesn't end up that way. The Night of the Gun is in part a writerly exercise in defense and disarmament--memoir in the throes of an existential crisis. But that does not prevent it from being a great read. This is largely because, in using...
...Visiting a stall that serves bhelpuri - a mix of puffed rice, dough, tomato and coriander that is the quintessential Mumbai snack - I find that the price has gone up from 37 rupees a plate to 42 (about $1), in line with the current inflation rate of 12%. I ask the manager of the stall if sales have slowed down at the higher price. He thinks this is funny, and he shares my question with his workers; they think it's funny too. One of them explains: "If you were happy to pay 37 rupees for a plate of bhelpuri...