February 2011
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Sin galore - the Singaporean casinos in The... →
calebyap:
“Since opening last April the Marina Bay Sands (MBS) casino has become perhaps the most profitable in the world. Together with Resorts World Sentosa (RWS), another casino complex opened in Singapore last February, it is close to out-grossing the entire Las Vegas strip. Singapore seems to have gone from strait-laced container port to gambling mecca in one bound.”
Source: The...
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williamkenlon:
“Goodbye, Costa Mesa” - Aaron...
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Clarity.
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The economics of internships | Analysis & Opinion... →
An much-needed-to-be-said take on internships.
Intern-ships are seemingly thankless jobs, but they are often a rare golden ticket to a path to highly sought after positions. The issue is that most of these jobs are non-paying, making them un-affordable for those who don’t come from a privileged background. When one must toil through 12-hour days, with tasks ranging from the banal (fetching...
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Tennis: The Band Retraces A Route, And A... →
Was listening to the radio on a lazy Saturday morning when I heard their story, and it just captured me. They bought a sailboat, sailed for a year, and wrote an album about it? I have to listen to this music. Especially since it was described like this:
“You see the rawest form of experience — an experience devoid of judgment or opinions from other people — and it just yields itself to...
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January 2011
12 posts
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Serious in Singapore - NYTimes.com →
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Published: January 29, 2011
I am in the Gan Eng Seng Primary School in a middle-class neighborhood of Singapore, and the principal, A. W. Ai Ling, has me visiting a fifth-grade science class. All the 11-year-old boys and girls are wearing junior white lab coats with their names on them. Outside in the hall, yellow police tape has blocked off a “crime scene” and lying on a...
