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...taxes get any higher should outweigh the personal qualms of the anti-casino lobby. However, it is not unwarranted to take reasonable steps to counteract the potential ills of casinos on the areas surrounding them. Many cities and towns are understandably opposed to a casino in their jurisdictions; traffic problems and a touristy atmosphere would almost certainly accompany the thousands of day-trippers. Therefore, we favor building the casinos as resorts, removed from locals who understandably do not want a casino in their backyard. When considering developers’ proposals, Patrick should consider their impacts on communities and reject...
With $23 billion in cash reserves, the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant can afford to part with a little cash - even if it never earns a penny of it back. And Facebook could use the money - to hire more employees and build out the site, whose traffic is currently growing at over 100% per year, according to comScore Media Metrix, which tracks internet-user demographics. But what Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer and company desperately need these days is cachet in the burgeoning internet economy. And that is exactly what their investment just bought them...
...Flight attendants then run them through the safety procedures (schoolchildren get the extended lesson), serve them snacks and cold drinks and answer questions about how an aircraft works. (One pupil recently asked if there was a horn to tell the other planes to get out of the way in traffic.) In a nod to a more innocent time, passengers are free to visit the pilots in the cockpit. "We are fulfilling life wishes," says Gupta. "We want people to have a good time, to inspire them, so that kids see that if they study hard they might become a pilot...
...Souza says some of the robberies are the work of gangs who traffic the pieces to Europe and beyond. Most, though, are done by small-time crooks who fence their swag to local antique dealers, who then sell them on to private collectors...
...message warning them if they are in a mandatory evacuation zone. All schools in the county are closed this week, mail delivery was halted and businesses ranging from corporate offices to sandwich shops were closed. People were urged to stay home. Those who did venture out became snarled in traffic jams with evacuees or scrambling to find alternate routes around closed highways. Adding to the county's hardships, looters have been caught in evacuated neighborhoods and some scam artists reportedly have tricked people into evacuating so they could burglarize their homes...