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By DANIEL SELIGMAN RESEARCH ASSOCIATE Alison Bruce Rea

(FORTUNE Magazine) – Only in America (cont'd) A woman who lost $350,000 gambling at Nevada casinos wants a federal court to cancel the debt because she played blackjack so badly. Toshi Van Blitter of El Macero, Calif., charged in a suit this week in U.S. District Court in Sacramento that . . . the casinos knew she lacked the ''capacity and capability'' to play the game properly. She charged the casinos ''wrongfully and negligently'' failed to suggest that she learn to play blackjack by attending schools or classes . . . -- From a news report in the Hartford Courant.