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Following Morton's lead, the owners of Palms Casino Resort, which opened at the end of 2001, decided to aim even younger. The Maloof brothers, who own the Sacramento Kings basketball team, sold their local casino and built the Palms off-Strip and gave it no particular theme, figuring Vegas visitors would find out which hotel fit their demographic. (Wynn will also be unthemed, as will the Palazzo. The MGM Grand and the Mandalay Bay have almost entirely shed their film and Asian themes.) "I wanted to build the ultimate party place," says George Maloof, 40, the brother who runs...
...life. Her delicate face peeks out of a black head scarf as she nervously scans the sidewalk outside a Baghdad cafe. A 24-year-old prostitute, Shaima (not her real name) lives in fear of a man who is determined to kill her. The tormentor is her younger brother, who has been delegated by his parents to murder his sister and reclaim the family's honor...
...suddenly, thanks to glitzy televised tournaments, a younger generation of hard-core players and a wildly popular version of the game known as Texas Hold 'Em, poker's luck has turned--spectacularly. "It's red hot," says Hard Rock Hotel casino executive Bart Pestrichello. Celebrities play it, Ivy League students play it; even educated kids play it. "It has exploded," says actor Ben Affleck...
...laws from hell. But if you think yours are bad, try comparing notes with CARMEN BIN LADIN. In 1974 this half-Swiss, half-Persian daughter of an aristocrat married a Saudi named Yeslam and inherited more than 50 sisters-and brothers-in-law, one of whom was Yeslam's younger half brother Osama bin Laden--then a mere religious zealot she describes as "not strikingly different from the other brothers." In her new book, Inside the Kingdom, bin Ladin details the oppression of women in Saudi Arabia and within the bin Laden clan. Her first child was a girl...
...still in doubt. A new study of 200 women ages 60 to 75 found that a soy-protein powder was no better than a placebo in improving bone density, cognitive function or cholesterol levels. Don't give up tofu just yet, though. The results may not apply to younger women or other soy foods...