The Atlantic, Dec 2005, b

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"Sit and Spin" / Marc Cooper

• America now has twice as many publicly available gambling devices that take money—slot and video-poker machines and electronic lottery outlets—as it does ATMs that dispense it.
• Even Spam and Tabasco-sauce machines have become common.
  
• But rejoice, for we live in an age of ever more finely calibrated choice.
• A raging national success, Megabucks machines are linked by network in order to pool payoffs in always increasing mega-jackpots.
• Whereas horse-race betting... can take ten or fifteen years to mature into a pathological addiction, getting hooked on video poker often takes only a few months.
  

"Hurricane Lolita" / Christopher Hitchens
    'Lord Byron's many lubricities are never far away.'

"Editor's Choice: Passion in Fashion" / Benjamin Schwarz
    'The Corset: A Cultural History (a hot seller and the university-press version of soft porn)'

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