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...this feels strange, but not nearly as strange as talking to Robert Goulet about it, especially on three hours of sleep. "You beggar, it's not Sin City," he says. "It's Fun City." He has a point. It's a Vegas where the average tourist gambles only four hours in his four-day stay. That's fine with the casinos, since today they make more on rooms, drinks, food, shopping and entertainment--the stuff they used to give away to get you to gamble...
...which are attracted by the carbon dioxide that sleepers exhale and are then killed by the insecticide. The nets are portable, so they can be taken along by their owners if they need to move. In villages where at least 80% of pregnant women and children under age 5 sleep beneath insecticide-impregnated mosquito nets, the rate of illness for all residents has dropped dramatically. Unfortunately, only 1% or 2% of people in malarial zones sleep under mosquito nets. Also, most nets need to be retreated every six months, and they are less effective in areas where anopheles mosquitoes bite...
...complete camp. What happens in Vegas, in fact, is bragged about at home for months afterward - and home might be in America, Europe or anywhere else in the world. All this feels strange, but not nearly as strange as talking to Robert Goulet about it on three hours of sleep. "You beggar, it's not Sin City," he says. "It's Fun City." The lounge singer has a point. It's a Vegas where the average tourist gambles only four hours in a four-day stay. That's fine with the casinos, since today they make more on rooms, food...
...sleep at night with the blood of the soldiers who died in Iraq on your hands?” an audience member shouted...
...hour later, I'm sitting on the pavement, and I've seen a parade of sick, disabled, and blind young and old, being wheeled or prodded towards the grotto to receive their blessing. Hearing poignant organ music in the background and operating on little sleep, I have been robbed of self-control; my sobs come in big hiccuping gulps that I hide as best I can beneath my sunglasses...