Entitled A Casino Is Born Every Minute, the 250-page book details James Duncan's successful and unsuccessful attempts to beat casinos. Duncan is serving a five-year sentence for grand larceny in the Las Vegas city jail. He wrote 18 bogus checks, ranging in value from $3,000 to $10,000...
For $100, he said, Jones would insure your house and property for full value. Thousands of people who saw that TV ad sent him a hundred dollars each. In another TV ad, Jones claimed that he had negotiated with the federal and state government for exclusive air rights. He told viewers ...
involved, there’s hierarchical polyamory, where a person might have a partner they live with and a more casual partner they see less often, there’s relationship anarchy, which holds that all relationships (romantic and otherwise) are of equal value and importance. That’s to name just a ...
Showing good ability in heat and fatigue—that’s a football trait we value.” Quotes of the Week I. We are not in a position where if you lose one guy, you are like, ‘How are we going to overcome it?’ We are built to withstand any and all of it. Except...
There are all sorts of conflicting stories about the scarcity and value of Disney VHS tapes, which one would assume are quite plentiful in the secondary market given how many were sold in the 1980s and ’90s, and yet do sometimes fetch high prices for some specific (and supposedly limited)...
The retail giant acquired self-driving startup Zoox for more than $1 billion, The InformationreportedFriday. TheFinancial Timeshas a similar report, claiming that the actual value of the acquisition is more than $1.2 billion. Zoox itself confirmed the news in an Instagram post. "We are delight...
Mark is an award-winning journalist and the science editor at Mashable. After working as a ranger with the National Park Service, he started a reporting career after seeing the extraordinary value in educating people about the happenings on Earth, and beyond. ...