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...throughout the region, mental-health workers and researchers fear pathological gambling could reach epidemic proportions in coming years. Macau's success has inspired other Asian cities and countries to allow new casinos. In Vietnam, a $4 billion luxury gaming resort will open near Ho Chi Minh City in 2009. Ground has already been broken for a pair of casino complexes in Singapore. The Philippine government is planning to open a 100-acre (405,000-square-meter) gaming complex that will employ 40,000 Filipinos in Manila Bay. In an attempt to lure Chinese gamblers over the border, Kazakhstan is creating...
...Missed Opportunity? As Nancy Gibbs put it, the city of New York prevented Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from laying a wreath at ground zero because New Yorkers were revolted by "the prospect of a tyrant's hand touching sacred ground" [Oct. 8]. I do not want to discuss how many tyrants the U.S. has tolerated vs. how many it has fought. But wouldn't it have been good diplomatic form to have allowed Ahmadinejad to lay a wreath in honor of all the 9/11 victims killed by Islamic fanatics? What kind of impact would his gesture have made...
Attention misled treasure hunters: there isn’t actually a gold-ridden burial ground under Matthews Hall. The orange tape and big holes in the yard are the work of Anthropology 1130, a hands-on archaeology class looking for the foundations of Harvard’s Indian College. So far, the 42 students enrolled in “Archaeology of Harvard Yard” have unearthed shellbuttons, wine bottles, pipestems, bits of Chinese porcelain, and (surprise!) plenty of brick. The most exciting discovery to date are small pieces of printing tile that may have been used to produce...
...It’s like the loudest thing I’ve ever heard going into the stadium,” Hatch said. “If there’s a big play on the ground you can feel the sound. Before the games there’s like 120,000 people on campus going nuts just getting ready for the game. It’s the best environment of any college football team...
...September, officials from over 150 countries met at a U.N. conference on climate change and the international response to global warming. Many saw this conference as testing ground for ideas likely to be presented in a separate December conference in Bali, which will address what legislation should supplant the Kyoto Protocol upon its 2013 expiration. At September’s conference, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice’s presentation veered noticably away from the idea of emissions caps, focusing almost exclusively on the potential of improved “energy technologies.” Paired with President Bush?...