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...Angeles, feels Las Vegas has a special charm. "The appeal of casinos is that there's some glamour and some seediness," he says. "Both those things appeal to something fundamental in the American psyche." He favors the high-stakes games at the Bellagio, which he calls "the premier room, the biggest, most respected place to play: it's the Taj Mahal of poker." Pretty classy image there. The money is big in Las Vegas poker these days, and so are the egos. Of the winners, that...
...AIDS activists?finally paid off last week when, on World AIDS Day, the Chinese government took a lesson from its sluggish response to the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic and launched its first big AIDS public-awareness campaign, complete with posters, TV spots and an unprecedented visit by Premier Wen Jiabao to a Beijing hospital, where he shook hands with AIDS patients...
...Asia. Though that's good news for consumers, it's not for the big airlines. In Europe and the U.S., budget airlines, led by Dublin-based Ryanair, wreaked havoc on major airlines by slashing fares and stealing customers. Both Singapore Airlines and Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific, Asia's premier airlines, deny that they are cutting prices in response to this new threat. But they have been offering what they call routine special promotions. In May, Cathay Pacific sold round-trips between Hong Kong and Singapore for $128, even less than the $160 fare offered by Singapore-based low-cost...
...first-years, I wanted a cliched fresh start. As I flipped through the pages of the freshman facebook, I began to believe that the task was hopeless. I cringed at the ice cream social when a high school acquaintance introduced my friend Tracy and me as “premier Canadian debaters” to hordes of new faces. Following the incident, Tracy decided that in order to escape our debating past, she would tell everyone that we were international runway models...
...living wills made by suicide bombers, show how Muslim men have been brought to the country through well-defined and clearly funded channels. Appearances are made by Saudis, Algerians, Libyans, Jordanians and others; the video even claims that one bomber had lived in Italy and played hockey for a premier club...