Word: nevadas
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...Roswell. This New Mexico town is the Lourdes of psy-fi, just as Area 51, the supersecret facility in Nevada, is its Vatican. The story goes like this: in July 1947, flying saucers crashed near Roswell, and dead creatures and their spacecraft were taken into government custody; for a half-century, alien remains have been studied in Area 51. Officially, the place barely exists, but it and Roswell have entered the pop lexicon. Area 51 appeared in the second episode of The X-Files; it is the setting for much of Independence Day. In the hit movie The Rock...
Among the benefits of bulking up, the deal will land Hilton on the boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey, where Bally owns two huge gaming palaces. Hilton has five casino hotels in Nevada but had been shut out of the lucrative Atlantic City market. The combined companies will rake in the chips at 15 casinos from Las Vegas to Istanbul, Turkey, and plan to open five more by the end of the decade. But Hilton, which last year earned half of its $353 million in operating income from gambling, is hardly turning its back on the lodging business. "We will...
DIED. JIMMY ("The Greek") SNYDER, 76, odds maker and garrulous gridiron gossip on television's The N.F.L. Today benched in 1988 for attributing black athletic excellence to slave breeding; in Las Vegas, Nevada...
...converts to casino culture are just beginning to compute the social costs of compulsive gambling, which, studies show, leads to lost productivity, bankruptcies, divorce, suicide, child abuse and crimes such as robbery, fraud and embezzlement (with consequent police, prosecution and imprisonment costs). Nevada, where gambling is the dominant industry, has a suicide rate more than double the national average, and led the nation in child-abuse fatalities in the period when casinos were still limited to Nevada and Atlantic City. Within two years of Deadwood's casino influx, child-abuse reports rose 43% and domestic violence...
MARGOT HORNBLOWER returned to the U.S. in 1994 after six years at TIME's Paris bureau and was astonished to see how much gambling was going on in America. Back in 1988, Nevada and New Jersey were the only two states where casinos were permitted. Since then they have been legalized in 24 others. Hornblower's report this week examines gambling's hidden costs and often illusory benefits. Just how pervasive wagering has become was driven home for Hornblower when she flew back to Los Angeles from her reporting assignment and found a letter from her son's parochial school...