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...days corporate honchos will begin arriving en masse in Junket City - this year, that?s Detroit - for the Superbowl, a championship football game that many of those seated in the luxury boxes won?t even bother to watch. Why should they? Let's be honest - this shindig is all about the parties and perks. The only scores that matter is the Scores with topless dancers and cocktails not far from Ford Field. But this year corporate card-carrying spendthrifts had better be careful. The expense-account cops are out in force - or so we?re told - and business entertaining...
...affected. The exposé threatened to alienate skating's future champions, including rising stars like Kimmie Meissner, who last year became only the second American woman to land a triple Axel in competition. Those youngsters were busy pushing the sport to new levels of excellence, but would they continue to bother if the results were fixed? Embarrassed and under pressure from the International Olympic Committee to reform, the International Skating Union (I.S.U.) decided to raze and rebuild...
...Pocono Mountains, Pa.!) "I'm just glad to have a place here," he says. "When I get to where I can't ski, and if I want to sell, I'd like to at least get back what I've put into it. But things like that don't bother me when I'm on top of Highlands Ridge, ready to take an express elevator straight down the mountain...
...Given that a debate has been raging for the past few years over whether Pluto is even a planet, it might be tempting to wonder "why bother?" In fact, though, the debate underscores why it's an even more important mission than anyone might have imagined just a couple of decades ago. Back then, Pluto was considered a sort of one-of-a-kind oddball, a big chunk of mostly ice, very different from the rocky inner planets (like Earth) or the gassy outer ones (like Jupiter...
...Irvine's Mark also thinks improved technology will help, but she points to low-tech solutions as well. Some companies, she notes, give employees DO NOT INTERRUPT screens to put over their cubicles or establish quiet times when it's not permissible to bother a colleague. In some offices, she says, "workers wear colored hats to signify when they do and do not want to be interrupted." Another simple trick, suggests Spira, is to leave more explicit instructions on e-mail "away messages" and answering machines about how and when you prefer to be interrupted...