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...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...
Women were not shrinking violets in evaluating their own worth as money managers. Half the women said they felt females made better financial managers, and 21% of the men concurred. Some of the findings seemed less surprising. Women make bets less frequently than men. Their average wager is $1.80, vs. $3.10 for men. And sexual liberation or no, if one were to stop a couple on the street, the man would probably be carrying more cash than his companion. Women's wallets hold an average of $29; men carry...
...foursome has recently discovered that they can wend their way from their apartments to their office in an immense downtown shopping mall through tunnels, skyways, and inter-building corridors, without ever stepping foot outside. And with this realization comes a wager. To deal with the mind-numbing tedium of their cubicle lives, the group decides to bet a month’s salary to see who among them can survive the longest without fresh...