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Every week Americans eagerly scratch coins or other objects across the surfaces of some 40 million "instant-win" lottery tickets to find out if they have hit the jackpot. But whether they jump for joy or toss away another losing ticket in disgust, the national love of lotteries has made big winners of two Atlanta-based companies, Scientific Games and Dittler Bros. They are the undisputed champions of instant-win games, one of the most popular forms of legalized gambling...
Until the advent of instant lotteries, state-sponsored games were conducted by drawing. While such contests still have 70% of the market, scratch-ticket lotteries are growing in popularity because of the instant gratification--or dejection. Today, for a bet of $1, a lucky player can collect...
...Ethiopians have arrived in abysmally poor condition. Said one Israeli involved in the resettlement program: "They are coming here less than ill clothed, less than ill fed and without homes. We have had to start from scratch." In fact, some arrived at Ben Gurion International Airport carrying nothing but water pails, cherished possessions in drought-stricken Sudan and Ethiopia. Many suffer from malnutrition, malaria, tuberculosis, jaundice, typhus and tapeworm. "I had to go back to my textbooks to look up some of these diseases," said an Israeli doctor...
TODAY'S PRO-LIFE movement does not seek merely to make abortion a crime. It wants to make into law its beliefs that life begins at conception and abortion, therefore, is murder. On that score, pro-lifers will have to start from scratch...
Starting from scratch will present a serious problem to these folks, who are used to arguing soley from a moral standpoint. Abortion may or may not be morally equivalent to murder, but considerations arising from the nature of the relationship between the fetus and the pregnant woman require a legal distinction...