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...Wonderland has fallen upon some toughtimes. the track is on a pace to handle $170million in wagers this year, far short of its $200million target. "Nationwide, the paramutuels aregetting beaten up pretty good and New England hasbeen the hardest hit," Bucci says. "People justdon't have the leisure money they had in the late'80s. Hopefully, the economy will turn aroundsoon." Even if it does, Wonderland will have tocontend with stiff local competition for thegambling dollar. there are dogs at Raynham Parkthoroughbreds at Rockingham Park. there's thelargest state lottery in the country. There's alsoSuffolk Downs just a mile...
...king, however, does not think that his kingdom is a wonderland of any kind. His model for perfection is Great Britain and his infatuation with the country and its customs has caused him to send his eldest daughter, the Princess Zara (Victoria Wei) to England so that she may return with the knowledge that has made the great country what...
Think small. Now think smaller still. For in the lilliputian wonderland that scientists have begun to explore, a grain of rice looms as large as an asteroid, a droplet of water as wide as an inland...
...collapse of both the housing and commercial real estate markets means that even big-name architects have precious little to do right now. So when Richard Meier's final designs for the J. Paul Getty Trust's vast art center, a $360 million, six-building museum-and-art-scholarship wonderland, were unveiled in Los Angeles last week, it wasn't just his envious peers who paid attention. Meier won the commission over 32 fellow architectural stars (including Charles Moore, Frank Gehry and Robert Venturi) back in 1984, and given the prominence of the project and the deep-pocket client, every...
...Fifth-grade teacher Madelyn Cimaglia has no doubt of the wonders that could be worked in San Antonio's Edgewood school district if more funds were available. Like thousands of her peers, Cimaglia supplements meager classroom supplies with her own money, buying her students books such as Alice in Wonderland and Charlotte's Web. "Our kids would fly if we had resources similar to the rich districts," she says...