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Atlantic City casinos get new look with younger gamblers - 2004-02-09
Matt Goscky – a regular at the Borgata, the newest casino in the New Jersey gambling mecca of Atlantic City – is youthful, makes big wagers and loses consistantly. He may be just what that city requires.

The billion-dollar, 43-story Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa dominates the skyline of once-fading Atlantic City. The first new casino to be constructed there in 13 years, it is enticing a dramatically younger crowd than the 55-plus players the East Coast resort city has normally attracted since gambling was authorized in 1977.
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One-time mobster cautions about effects of gambling's - 2004-02-09
The fight over authorized gambling in Kansas got an unususal revival from a former mob figure who admitted that gambling leads to a range of social complications.

Franzese stated statistics indicated that a few years after a casino is established in a community, "crime rates start to rise, the incidence of pathological gamblers starts to rise, problem gamblers start to arise."
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