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...from a low of 72%. On the right day in July, you could book the type of 750-sq.-ft. room that was $500 a year ago at the Wynn for $109 and get a $50 gift certificate. The high-end restaurants at the MGM have gotten rid of most of their $400 bottles of wine and replaced them with $100 ones. This is either a model for the rest of the country or, if the reset fails, the beginning of a long, long slide...
...Floridians have created their own mess. The Sunshine State loves exotic pets, and sales of pythons, most imported from Southeast Asia, reached $10 million in the state last year. But too many buyers, after discovering what a large and expensive chore caring for these snakes can be, simply get rid of them. And because there aren't a lot of adopt-a-python agencies, the reptiles are often dumped in the wild. As a result, Florida in 2008 instituted new ownership requirements, such as $100 annual permits, proof of snake-handling skills and implantation of microchips in pythons' hides...
...Pakistan Still a Valley Of Death Despite official claims that a three-month military assault had rid the Swat Valley of Taliban fighters, residents are leery of returning as violence continues to plague the region. In recent days, the discovery of an active Taliban recruitment cell and the beheaded body of a kidnapped policeman have fed fears that militants remain in control. Some 2 million people were displaced during the offensive in April...
...Investors, however, aren't inclined to stay neutral. "Lewis used the bonus issue to get rid of Thain," says Jonathan Finger, an institutional investor who owns shares in Bank of America and has been pushing for Lewis' ouster. "But this shows that Lewis knew about it all along...
...some businessmen hope to establish East Africa as an outsourcing center. Soon enough, instead of asking an operator in India to cancel your stolen credit card, you might get a Kenyan on the line. "It gets rid of the potential excuses for decision-makers not to consider Kenya, since we are now absolutely equivalent to anyone else in the world in terms of our connectivity," says Eric Nesbitt, operations manager for Kenyan call center KenCall. "If you consider Kenya as a rural part of the world and we have little dirt tracks, all of a sudden someone's building...