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...here because Las Vegas is on sale. The hotels, led by Wynn Resorts boss Steve Wynn, slashed room prices to increase occupancy rates to 82% from a low of 72%. On the right day in July, you could book the type of 750-sq.-ft. room that was $500 a year ago at the Wynn for $109 and get a $50 gift certificate. The high-end restaurants at the MGM have gotten rid of most of their $400 bottles of wine and replaced them with $100 ones. This is either a model for the rest of the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Less Vegas: The Casino Town Bets on a Comeback | 8/14/2009 | See Source »

...your book, you describe the Big Bang theory as having "the feeling of something held together with a Band...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Came Before the Big Bang? | 8/13/2009 | See Source »

...some concepts, as you wrote in your book, still have to be translated with pop culture references like The Matrix or Groundhog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Came Before the Big Bang? | 8/13/2009 | See Source »

...that chapter was the one about time. I wrote another book awhile ago about infinity, and they both have the same sort of effect. When you start thinking about what time is, you can get in a bit of state where you think, "Hey, I'm losing it here," - because you cannot think outside of time. Time is part of how we experience the universe. Trying to think of before there was time, well, you're already in trouble because you're thinking "before," which is a way of measuring time. It's very easy to get yourself into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Came Before the Big Bang? | 8/13/2009 | See Source »

...mention in the book that although there are hundreds of different cheeses, there are only a handful of basic recipes. How do we get so many varieties? There are about a dozen steps in the basic process of turning milk into cheese. All cheeses go through some combination of those steps, but any tiny variation in any one of them will create a different texture and flavor. The first step in cheese making is called acidification - the process of converting the sugar in milk into acid. You do that by putting starter bacteria in your milk. There are hundreds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cheese Expert | 8/13/2009 | See Source »

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