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...sort of personal information that might make its way to employers, parents, or significant others. Much too has been made of the importance of putting creative work in digital form for the benefit of our peers and for the sake of human intellectual endeavor. But I’d wager that no one ever thinks about one peculiar side effect of all of this: it’s not just our peers we’re exposing ourselves to—it’s our progeny.Effectively, everything we now write and put online is a time capsule. What?...
...WITS & WAGERS The average human tongue has how many taste buds? In this lively trivia game, teams ponder such stumpers and jot down their answers. Players then wager points on which team's guesses are closest to the correct answer...
...Caf? 2400, on the town's tree-lined main drag, waitress Janice Wager, 16, is convinced she did the right thing in leaving school in August to work as a trainee at the upmarket caf?. "Some of my friends and cousins, who just hang around doing nothing, said to me, Why do you want to work? Others believed I thought I was now better than them because I had a job and money." Bright-eyed and polite, Wager is contemplating further hospitality training, modeling, obtaining her driver's license and buying a car. At the nearby Moree Panel Works...
...director for the firm Betfair, based in Britain. "Poker is a game played by many tens of millions of Americans. It is played by Presidents and judges. It's strange to say it's illegal just because it is online." In other places, from Hong Kong to Sweden, online wagering similarly runs up against a thicket of restrictions. In Britain, where punters regularly wager in betting shops, online gaming is now legal, which is why companies such as PartyGaming have gone public on the London Stock Exchange...
...wager that Dave’s determination ultimately leads to success...