Word: resorting
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...online gambling would be punishable by up to two years’ imprisonment and a $25,000 fine. The Harvard demonstrators were met by a large assembly of union workers, who gathered to show support for Patrick’s beleaguered gaming bill, which would permit three new resort casinos to be built in Massachusetts. Supporters of the ban claim that online poker encourages gambling addiction. Patrick added the provision to his bill to assuage critics who fear that building three casinos in the state will cause a dramatic increase in gambling among residents. Law student Andrew M. Woods, executive...
...built, and hundreds of roadblocks were erected. Commando teams carry out search-and-arrest missions nearly every night. Palestinians consider themselves the victims of an occupying army. Israelis retort that statistics prove the validity of their methods: Last year there was only a single attack, in the Red Sea resort of Eilat...
Geoengineering has long been the province of kooks, but as the difficulty of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions has become harder to ignore, it is slowly emerging as an option of last resort. The tipping point came in 2006, when the Nobel Prize-winning atmospheric scientist Paul Crutzen published an editorial examining the possibility of releasing vast amounts of sulfurous debris into the atmosphere to create a haze that would keep the planet cool. "Over the past couple of years, it's gone from an outsider thing to something that is increasingly discussed," says Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution...
...strange incongruities, rendering it naked and vulnerable to our judgment.At first glance, Hartwig’s work is unremarkable. The titles of her pieces, which are usually drawn from lines in the poems, are intriguing but hardly riveting. She speaks consistently to those topics poets most often resort to when in need of inspiration: love, life, death, and nature. And the punctuation of her poems, while unorthodox, is hardly innovative. Taken independently, the characteristics that define Hartwig’s writing would hardly be considered noteworthy. But it would be an injustice to allow Hartwig to fade into the woodwork...
...Kubodera may be an exceptional student, but his decision to seek higher education overseas is all too common among Japanese youth these days. Japan's universities have fallen on hard times, their reputations so dented that many ambitious students no longer consider them even as a last resort. Beset by international competition, hampered by outmoded curriculums and cloistered, change-resistant administrations, universities are seeing enrollment and tuition revenues decline. The total number of higher-ed students in Japan fell from 2.87 million in 2005 to 2.83 million last year, a loss of some 37,000, according to Japan's Education...