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...money that could just as easily be wagered legally? Well, the numbers operators sell tickets for as little as 25 cents, in contrast to $1 for state lottery tickets, and the illegal game offers better odds. In general, odds in the state lotteries are the worst of any type of gambling. Atlantic City casinos, for example, are required by New Jersey law to return as winnings 75% of the money bet, but state lotteries generally return only...
This time, it appeared, the worst had been averted. The vessel's two reactors were shut down, and no fatalities were reported. Soviet officials insisted there had been no venting of radiation, thus no threat to people or the environment; Norwegian tests showed no unusual radiation in the area. Nonetheless, the accident dealt another blow to the prestige of the world's largest undersea fleet...
...whether the policy shifts signify genuine change or skillful public relations. Tom Milliken, who heads TRAFFIC (Japan), part of the international organization that monitors the wildlife trade, gives Japan measured praise for its attempts to control commerce in endangered species. Says he: "Japan has gone from being the worst of the worst to being on a par with the worst of the European countries -- Italy and France." But on the issues of tropical logging and drift-net fishing, environmentalists are much more skeptical. Observes Japan's Yoichi Kuroda, co-author of a study titled Timber from the South Seas...
Caspar Weinberger called it "the worst spy case of the century." As Secretary of Defense in the spring of 1987, he was confronted with evidence that Marine guards at the U.S. embassy in Moscow had not only "fraternized" with Soviet women but also allowed KGB agents to break into the inner sanctum of the embassy -- the code room, from which sensitive messages are sent to Washington...
...history are balanced in the pages of Naipaul's many books and published daily on his mobile face. The muscles for consternation, annoyance, mirth, sadness, disappointment and disdain are well developed. A lifetime overcoming obscurity, asthma and anxiety among strangers in strange lands has taught him to expect the worst. His autobiographical writings toll with such gloomy remarks as "To see the possibility, the certainty, of ruin, even at the moment of creation: it was my temperament." To a visitor who has just blown through 10 1/2 time zones to arrive promptly for a meeting in Madras, he says, "When...