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Eyes on the U.S. Food / Travel

Las Vegas, How Global Finances Are Burning Sin City

Ever since the financial crisis, casinos have been losing money. To survive, Las Vegas must lose its reputation as a place good only for gambling, boozing and prostitution.

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Geopolitics

By The Numbers: Vegas Do-Gooder, Amazon Blunder, Migrant Lives

The news quantified…

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Society

Russian Roulette: Inside Moscow’s Underground Casinos

Despite a four-year ban on gambling, illegal casinos are thriving here — partly because of crooked police, and partly because law enforcement officials are confused by the murky law.

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Society

How The World’s Gambling Mecca Shares The Wealth With Locals

MACAU DAILY TIMES (Macau), CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY (Taiwan) Worldcrunch MACAU – Not far from Hong Kong, a small island off the coast of southern China attracts 28 million visitors a year. The tourists, hailing mostly from Mainland China, come here to gamble. It is the only place in China where gambling is legal, and with […]

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