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'Racinos' arrangement no better with Senate negotiation - 2004-01-05
You can slap a saddle on a pig, but don't expect it to run like a thoroughbred at Churchill Downs.

Senate Majority Leader Kenneth Sikkema wants to do something very similar like that with a bill that would broaden gambling at horse racing tracks in Michigan.
The board was arranged by voters in 1996 particularly for monitoring roulette wheels, black jack tables, slot machines and other casino gaming.
Read the full story at MLive.com (subscription), MI

Blackjack only survivor, foolish optimism kills explorers - 2004-01-05
Assembled by famed explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the 1921 expedition to Wrangel Island appears, in reality, destined to fail.

"Ada Blackjack: The True Story of Survival in the Arctic" signifies a kind of sequel to "The Ice Master," which detailed Stefansson's earlier effort to find a new continent beneath the North Pole.
Read the full story at Christian Science Monitor