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This Week's Issue
A Million Stories
All the news we care to print.
by Jeffrey C. Billman, Holly Otterbein and Andrew Thompson
Last week, we told you that Philadelphia received a report card informing us that our longtime subsistence on Fritos Honey BBQ Twists and purple drink has made us the very least healthy county in all of Pennsylvania.

Man Overboard!:
Proximity!
Steve Wynn and the birth of the "convenience casino."
by Isaiah Thompson
Tourists are finicky, few and far away, and Wynn knows this. This week, he announced that his Philly casino would be only three stories tall and wouldn't include a hotel. These casinos aren't for tourists; they're for us.

Sports:
Bring Back Croce
Leadership matters. Croce has it. The 76ers don't.
by E. James Beale
The 76ers didn't make a mistake when they decided to bring back a cornerstone of the 2001 championship run. They made a mistake in choosing Iverson, who recently left the team to care for his ailing daughter, instead of the natural fit — former president Pat Croce.

The Bell Curve
City Paper's Quality-o-Life-o-Meter
When news breaks in Philadelphia, we make jokes.

 
 
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