Now thousands of people in the U.S. have been caught up by lottery fever. The Powerball Lottery Jackpot has reached two hundred and eighty million dollars. People in twenty-one participating states are lining up in droves to buy tickets. Employees at a factory in Tennessee chipped in twenty-four thousand dollars to buy tickets priced at a dollar each. The odds of winning the jackpot? Get this. Eighty million to one.
