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...because the industry is expanding rapidly throughout the region, mental-health workers and researchers fear pathological gambling could reach epidemic proportions in coming years. Macau's success has inspired other Asian cities and countries to allow new casinos. In Vietnam, a $4 billion luxury gaming resort will open near Ho Chi Minh City in 2009. Ground has already been broken for a pair of casino complexes in Singapore. The Philippine government is planning to open a 100-acre (405,000-square-meter) gaming complex that will employ 40,000 Filipinos in Manila Bay. In an attempt to lure Chinese gamblers...
...Shady Hill green space, surrounded by seven homes, lies near Harvard Divinity School and the Holden Green graduate housing complex...
...bayou took him from his home state of Nevada, through Cambridge, down to Chile and onto an operating table before ending at LSU, where he’s played most the year as the Tigers’ third string quarterback. Hatch enrolled at Harvard in 2005 before toiling near the bottom of the Crimson depth chart...
Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Rachel L. Greenblatt is skeptical of the suggestion that having an ethnicity-based interest in a certain department precludes meaningful study of that field. “For the majority of heritage students, is the concentration really so close to their background?” she says. “For example, there are very few Jewish families in America speaking Hebrew and Yiddish at home today—so I don’t think that Jewish students focusing on Jewish Studies are repeating things that they learned at home...
...world capital after another to pitch his innovative and audacious project to government leaders, curious techies, education advocates, NGOs and anyone else who will listen. But even as he was criss-crossing Rome in a hectic 14 hours earlier this week, Negroponte's attention was fixed on a factory near Shanghai. That's where within a week - after all the development and design and gigabytes of both hype and scepticism - mass production will begin on the state-of-the-art, low-price computer that its backers are billing as nothing less than the most ambitious education project in world history...