The Chinese government strictly controls gambling licenses so the problems that hit Las Vegas with over-supply and competition from Atlantic City and Indian casinos are not an issue.

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Fast-growing cities with sprawl problems, like Las Vegas, Phoenix and Denver, "are completely enamored of the density that intelligent bus transit enables, " says Robert Puentes, a fellow at the Brookings Institution.

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Leisure Parcs, a company which owns many of the local attractions, including the famed tower and Winter Gardens, thinks the solution to Blackpool's problems is to turn it into Las Vegas.

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He had encountered problems in April when his visa arrived too late for him to travel to Las Vegas before Calzaghe's fight with Bernard Hopkins.

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