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...online. According to Warwick Bartlett, who runs the British firm Global Betting & Gaming Consultants, almost $12 billion will be wagered over the Internet this year, or close to 5% of the world's total gross gambling yield. Over the next five years, the consultancy estimates, the total take will soar to about $22 billion, or about 7.5% of the industry total. "You've got at least 10 years of strong growth in the sector," Bartlett predicts...
...site, the pilot feels "cut off from them by age, by understanding, by sensibility, by technology." Later, a white landowner has the pilot taken away in a straitjacket, figuring any black man who dares to fly must be crazy. Reaching great heights requires personal and cultural risks. These stories soar...
...country that virtually invented the world's most successful and frequently imitated quality-control systems in high technology and heavy industry, Japan's ability to soar into space on its own has proven surprisingly ill-starred. The country's domestically developed rockets have suffered five launch failures out of 49 since 1980, well below internationally acceptable levels. (China has lost eight rockets in 80 launches.) The most recent humiliation for Japan was an aborted launch of two spy satellites in 2003, when one of the flagship H-2A rockets' two boosters failed to separate from the main rocket shortly after...
...vaccines aren't the whole solution. Should a pandemic take hold, demand would soar for surgical masks, hospital beds, mechanical ventilators--which help people breathe when their lungs are fighting an overwhelming infection--and other items. "We have only 105,000 ventilators right now in America, and 95,000 are being used," says Tommy Thompson, a former HHS Secretary who startled a lot of people last December when he said pandemic flu was one of the two things that kept him awake at night (the other was the safety of the food supply...
...employees, Patricia Arquette, short female fans of Italian cuisine, and amorous salmon be damned—I want to soar...