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...idea of how humans handle risk, reward and variable payoffs. Few things offer a better way of quantifying that than gambling - and few gambling dens offer a richer pool of data than the Internet, where millions of people can play at once and transactions are easy to observe and record. (See 10 things to do in Las Vegas...
...part about Mark McGwire's insistence that he was naturally "given the gift to hit home runs" - even as he copped Jan. 11 to a near decade's worth of steroid use - is that it might just be true. He did, after all, smash the single-season home-run record for rookies with 49 long balls in 1987 - two years before, he says now, he first tried doping. Could he have edged out Sammy Sosa to crush Roger Maris' 37-year-old home-run record in 1998 - knocking 70 balls out of the park - even without juicing? Fans will never...
...Vegas-based music producer is planning a benefit concert in Beijing on April 17 that will rival - and possibly exceed - such celebrity-spangled extravaganzas as Live Aid and Live 8. The ebullient Garson is well aware that China has what might politely be described as a mixed record when it comes to public performances by foreign artists; 2009 alone featured a trail of government last-minute cancellations. Notable among them was the nixing of Oasis concerts in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong, reportedly because of one band member's attendance at a Tibet benefit concert...
...stay optimistic about business and companies' abilities to change with record-high unemployment? We tend to get faked out sometimes by the particular moment that we're living in, whether it's a boom or a bust. If you take three steps backward, you'll realize that the trajectory of things is generally positive. It's not in one smooth upward slope. It involves some pain along the way. But in general, the future is better than the past...
After beginning the season with a 0-4 record on the road, Harvard won its second-consecutive game away from home to open its four-game road trip with a 2-0 start...