Best alternative reality: Las Vegas. The city built on customers' overrating their streaks of good luck is riding a long bad streak. But Sin City is trying hard to recover its "Hangover"-style swagger despite the half-finished, dead dinosaur hotels and shuttered Sahara at the north end of the Strip. Just take a stroll through the diamonds and designer dresses at CityCenter and you can see a whole city crossing its collective fingers.

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