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...which men make out and the rest of the cast simulates acrobatic sex. "I had the vision of some couple seeing one of the acts and suing us after trying to replicate it and hurting his back," says Michael Bolingbroke, senior vice president of Cirque du Soleil. Treasure Island, trying to shed its wholesome image, now calls itself TI and has replaced its kid-friendly outdoor pirate show with one in which half-naked sirens say things like "Ahoy? Who you calling...
...string, one of many great new technologies to come from Las Vegas. Zumanity, the newest Cirque du Soleil show at New York-New York Hotel & Casino, is a near-naked gymnastics event in which men make out and the rest of the cast simulates acrobatic sex. And Treasure Island, which now calls itself TI, has traded its kid-friendly pirate show for one in which half-naked sirens say things like "Ahoy? Who you calling...
...second homes like the condos because they are easy to maintain, but a surprising number of locals buy so they can be near what Mayor Goodman calls, without irony, the intellectual center of Vegas. That center is being defined, in true American fashion, not by an ocean or an island but by a stretch of highway. "That's the view," says casino owner Lorenzo Fertitta from the presidential suite at the Green Valley Ranch. "The Strip is the beach and the water." "We're going through the reverse of what so many cities have suffered through, this flight...
...Venetian Resort Hotel Casino, complete with imitation canals and singing gondoliers. Sands chairman Sheldon Adelson is so gung ho about Macau that he is enlisting partners in a $10 billion project to duplicate the Vegas Strip on a sliver of reclaimed land between two of the territory's islands. The Sands Macao carefully blends Vegas pomp with an Asian vibe. A feng shui master helped design every detail of the casino to ensure that the elements were in harmony, from replacing the slot machines' winning trio of 7's with lucky Chinese 8's (in Chinese, the word for eight...
...soccer is mostly a middle class suburban game played by boys and girls, and the idea that loyalty to a team can be an expression of identity so profound that it's worth fighting - even sometimes killing - for would seem utterly preposterous on the grassy fields of suburban Long Island where Foer first played the game as a child. America's professional soccer clubs - or "franchises," as they're uniquely known in the U.S. - were created from scratch in the 1990s, and carry none of the encoded history of their European and Latin Americans counterparts. And support...