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Tuesday November 14, 2006 - 15:43 EST
SINGAPORE -- Mark Advent, the man behind the New York-New York megaresort on the Strip that helped change the face of Las Vegas, is hoping to bring some of his creativity to Singapore.Advent is chairman of Las Vegas-based Eighth Wonder, one of three bidders for a tropical casino-resort site on Sentosa Island, just off the main coast of Singapore. This will be the second casino-resort in the small city-state that has turned to gambling in its bid to reinvent itself as a fun tourism destination. With the opening of these world-class integrated resorts in 2009-2010 the authorities are hoping to double visitor arrivals to 17 million by 2015 and triple tourism spending to $19.2 billion.
The first site, a 51-acre piece of prime waterfront real estate in the Marina Bay financial district, was awarded in May to Las Vegas Sands Corp, to develop a $3.2 billion resort with a strong convention and entertainment component.
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Lady Bears aim high despite inexperience
By Jerry HillTribune-Herald assistant sports editor
Kim Mulkey’s created a monster that’s hard to keep feeding.
After three consecutive Sweet 16 appearances and five trips to the NCAA Tournament in the last six years, the expectations for the Baylor women’s basketball team are higher than ever. Even with a roster that includes six freshmen and three sophomores.
"What Kim will have to do now, and she faced it at Louisiana Tech, is maintaining something," said former Louisiana Tech head coach Leon Barmore. "At Tech, they thought we were going to win it every year and go to the Final Four. And now the expectations here are so high. But don’t count her out on keeping it going."
After two exhibition blowouts, the 19th-ranked Lady Bears open the regular season at 7 tonight with a first-round matchup against North Texas in the Preseason WNIT.
Entry pathway through Haiti
Because it detected an increase in third-country nationals, including Pakistanis and Palestinians, attempting to sneak into the United States from Haiti, and because it feared lax immigration enforcement would lead to a new boatlift from that country, the State Department recently urged the White House to adopt a policy of detaining illegal aliens arriving by boat from Haiti until they could be deported or granted asylum. When Attorney General John Ashcroft released a legal opinion last week accepting State's advice, he was castigated by a lead editorial in The Washington Post. Meanwhile, a big story fell through the cracks : Secretary of State Colin Powell's department - frequently depicted as the most dovish in the administration - is confirming that Middle Eastern nationals have been trying to penetrate the U.S.Social Services launches elderly handicraft training
SENIOR HANDICRAFT Craft instructor Veronica Ellis (centre) is pictured with event organizers Patrice Johnson (left) and Agatha Beckles (right) at the launching of the senior citizen handicraft course which took place yesterday at the Susan J. Wallace centre. Also pictured is Dollie Swain, assistant to Instructor Ellis. (Staff photo by JENNEVA RUSSELL)
Absolute in their resolve to make senior citizens feel a part of the communities in which they reside, officials from the Grand Bahama Department of Social Service and Community Affairs launched an elderly handicraft training program yesterday designed to do just that.
The initiative dubbed "I'm Proud to be a Senior" will run weekly between the hours of 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. at selected points throughout Grand Bahama.