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...career as a professional poker player. He spends his days betting on as many as 12 simultaneous tables online, and then plays into the night in cash games at the Grand Lisboa. "Once people understand that poker's a game of skill, they'll grow into it and definitely prefer it over baccarat," says Huang, referring to the fact that baccarat players bet against the house while poker players bet against each other. "Give it another three or five years. Poker here is going to be as huge as anywhere else in the world." It's a tempting...
...well as in Canada, Britain and other countries - have been trying to control the goose population for years. So how do you goose Canada geese? For starters, you get people to stop feeding them. Another method is to change the landscape; like good suburbanites, Canada geese prefer well-trimmed lawns and will shun long grass and shrubby areas that can hide predators. They can be scared away by noisemakers, fireworks, falcons and border collies. Pouring vegetable oil on goose eggs prevents them from hatching and also tricks their parents into not laying more eggs that season. "You need an integrated...
...words of Professor Amnon Rubinstein, a respected parliamentarian identified with the Israeli Left, in the Jerusalem Post, March 31, 2009: “The suffering of the people of Gaza is…[a] tragedy…[that] could disappear overnight if Gaza was governed by leaders who prefer life and peace to death...
...team physician Tom Clanton told the Houston Chronicle. "One of the things we are trying to get is a consensus opinion on that, to make certain there is no option we are overlooking that would provide an earlier return or would be an option for treatment that he would prefer rather than doing additional surgery." (See pictures of street basketball in China...
...Lieberman seems to have tempered his views, saying that today the "transfer of populations" is neither "acceptable nor possible." He said that even if a Palestinian state were created, Arabs would still be welcome inside Israel, where they currently account for 18% of the population. "Maybe some Arabs would prefer to go to a Palestinian state, but if some want to be Israeli citizens, that's their right," he said...