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...Adelson and Wynn point out they are adapting their winning formulas to suit Asians. For example, the Sands has gaming tables for fan tan and other games preferred by Chinese. A jackpot combination on specially adapted slot machines is the locally auspicious "888" instead of the traditional triple seven that wins big in the U.S. But no matter how Asian-friendly, gambling alone won't be enough to fill thousands of new hotel rooms. "Right now, Macau is for the gambler, period," says Wynn, who is planning to break ground on a $550 million hotel-casino he calls "the most...
...Robert Korzeniowski cruises around the track at his training base in the northern French town of Tourcoing, his body - tan, lithe, tautly muscled - obviously belongs to a world-class athlete. But his gait belongs to Monty Python's Ministry of Silly Walks. His legs do a speedy, almost balletic sashay. His arms pump hard, as if daring his bottom half to go faster. The Pole, world-record holder in the 50-km racewalk, is zooming. "When I train with him," says Norway's Kjersti Plätzer, the 2000 Olympic silver medalist in the women's 20 km, "he walks...
...World No. 3, Interbrew, has management control of joint ventures with 17 Chinese breweries, giving it a stable of brands, such as Double Deer, and it is scouring the countryside for more deals. "In early days, operators just weren't sure they could run local brands," says Wai Kee Tan, Interbrew's vice president in Asia, but they have since "gotten the hang of marketing and distribution...
...Baba Lukman personifies the south's rage against Bangkok. A slightly built man in his 50s, he is a self-confessed separatist fighter who leads a cell of militants aligned to a group calling itself New P.U.L.O. (According to Andrew Tan, a regional security expert at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University, New P.U.L.O. is one of six main groups that have recently pooled their resources under a single banner, Bersatu, the Malay word for united.) In what is a rare interview with a southern Thai militant, Time met with Lukman a few days prior to the April 28 bloodbath...
...wise enough to avoid making race the central theme of his work. Instead he just puts Asian Americans into funny, compelling stories that would typically feature "white" characters. The titular tale, for example, owes far more to Dan Clowes' "Ghostworld" than to Amy Tan's "Joy Luck Club." The longest and best of the book's pieces, "Same Difference" features Simon and Nancy, two dorky twenty-something best friends living in Oakland, California who bicker over pop-culture and local weirdoes. The story follows the two of them as Simon semi-reluctantly drives Nancy to Pacifica in order...