Macao’s cheap charm beyond its famed casinos
Macao offers inexpensive stays and sights beyond gambling with historic temples, treaty-table fame, and colonial-era monuments. Visitors can find budget inns from $10, meals for $12 daily, and transport options like bicycles for 50 cents, as government seeks to showcase the whole Macao, not just casinos.
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Macao
Las Vegas
Joao Reis
South China Coast
Reis
China
Japan
St. Paul’s
Europe
Pearl River
Hong Kong
Fort Monte
Sleep aids and tranquilizers under fire in Senate hearing
Senate witnesses warned that common OTC sleep aids and daytime tranquilizers often fail at recommended doses and can cause dangerous side effects when misused. Doctors Kales and Greenblatt cited antihistamines and scopolamine, calling many drugs placebo at indicated doses and urged removing such ads. They warned of fever, high blood pressure, excitement, hallucinations and possible fatal overdoses.
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Washington
UPI
Senate
Kales
Parking meters find odd second lives in Kansas City
Kansas City clerk reports 800 surplus parking meters sold this week stirring odd uses. Buyers include a parent billing teens for bathroom time and a Colorado man buying two meters for nostalgia. Tulsa man bought 20 meters. others offered to buy all.
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Kansas City
UPI
Colorado
Charles Johnson
Johnson
California
Tulsa
Roaming pair harvest old cars in rural Washington
Dick Hartmann and Gene Converse roam Washington's countryside scavenging junked autos and metal. With a homemade crusher truck they travel from yard to yard, buying old scrap to sell to scrap yards and steel firms overseas. They work long hours with little reward and no benefits.
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Dick Hartmann
Gene Converse
Johnny
Hartmann
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Petia
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