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...Angeles, where convenience stores are as common as palm trees, the opening of yet another one would normally attract little attention. But in the burned-out zones of South Central, where the riots began just over a year ago, the grand opening of the Mom & Pop community convenience store was seen as a major event...
...casinos, in part because of a 1987 U.S. Supreme Court decision that recognized the right of Indian tribes to offer gambling games on their reservations. There are efforts to build casinos in downtown Detroit and Chicago, in pastoral New Hampshire and Maine, in the desert elegance of California's Palm Springs, at historic Penn's Landing in Philadelphia, and on the lakefront sites of abandoned steel mills in Gary, Indiana. Some entrepreneurs are even talking of the day when Americans will find video slot machines at every local bar or bet from their living rooms through interactive television...
...insists, of course, that all he really wants is to serve his clients. "Imagine all of the most talented artists here," he says, extending his right hand, palm up. "Over there," he says, pointing to a television set and launching into a spiel that he may have delivered once or twice before, "is a primitive version of a machine that will offer nearly unlimited possibilities for entertainment within about 10 years. What I have to do is get these talented people through a period of relatively low demand the best way I can. Because once those technologies are in place...
Sophomore Captain Jack Wylie doesn't exaggerate when he says that over the course of the trip, "Dozens of golf balls were lost in the Florida waters." And almost one team member. During the course of a round at Mayacoo Lakes Country Club in West Palm Beach, sophomore David Choi backed up a little too far while lining up a putt. And in the words of Coach Bob Leonard, he proceeded to fall "ass over tea-kettle" into a lurking pond...
...made it back last year for one game during the final spring at The Springs. The Angels beat the Cubs. I met general manager Whitey Herzog. He was new to the organization, but even he said he would be sorry to leave Palm Springs. Everything, for that one day at least, was the ballpark I first met when...