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This New Vegas, this stomach-churning Vegas, was built from a scrap heap of roller coasters. When gambling popped up at every racetrack and lottery counter and on every riverboat and square foot where...
Russell G. Cushman, who is the president of the Charles Riverboat Company, said that he will offer the bus tours separately and in conjunction with his company’s boat tours on the Charles River...
...least four times a day for the past 15 years, the stocky Bangkok resident has stripped off his tattered shirt, donned a pair of antiquated goggles and slipped into the murky waters of one of the capital's klongs, or canals, to untangle debris from the propellers of riverboat taxis. The service takes no more than 10 minutes and nets him $2.50 for each dive. Luk Koong, 33, who was raised on the klongs and whose nickname in Thai means "shrimp baby," considered it easy money...
...Until Big got sick. Now, klong coliform levels are printed in newspapers. Radio stations have been swamped with callers complaining about skin diseases they suspect they have contracted from riverboat taxi rides. Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is demanding answers from bureaucrats. Pornpot has none. "The problem should have been dealt with 20 years ago when Bangkok's population began to boom," he says. "But it wasn't and now we are in serious trouble...
...adding new casinos, state lotteries and racetrack slot machines. In New York, Governor George Pataki signed contracts to permit three more Native American casinos in the western part of the state. He expects the 13-year deal to bring in $1 billion. Indiana and Illinois have raised taxes on riverboat casinos...