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...also giving away boats, trucks and gift cards as part of the game. Overall, it's distributing $10 million in cash and prizes to its top fantasy performers. During fantasy fishing's '08 debut, many winners got lucky. Shellee Kuykendall, a stay-at-home mother of two in Little Rock, Ark., didn't know fishing even had a pro circuit until she heard about the fantasy tournament from her husband and won $100,000. The million-dollar winner, a Minnesota man named Michael Thompson, had been out of work for more than a year before fishing saved...
...Using a raft of anecdotes and scientific studies, Lehrer answers some seemingly simple--and highly entertaining--questions. Does expensive wine really taste better than the cheap stuff, or are we biased by the price? Why do we spend more with a credit card than we do when paying with cash? How can we simultaneously desire a healthy diet and quickly devour the slice of chocolate cake in front of us? And what does it really mean when we experience a sudden, inexplicable gut feeling about something? While we can't always control (or understand, for that matter) what our brain...
...more fat when a House-Senate conference committee meets to resolve the two versions of the bill, Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski was trying to add new deductions for car buyers, and Oklahoma right winger James Inhofe was teaming up with California left winger Barbara Boxer to throw more cash at highways...
Still, things are not entirely gloomy. FORTUNE just released its annual list of best companies to work for: No. 1 is NetApp, which gives workers five paid days of volunteer work, adoption aid, autism coverage--and has gained market share, avoided layoffs and banked $2 billion in cash for these rainy days. Wegmans supermarkets (No. 5) offer workers free yoga classes; biotech leader Genentech (No. 7) features paid sabbaticals, on-site child care and a fitness center; its revenues jumped 25% last quarter. Hewlett suggests even struggling companies that have moved to a four-day workweek rather than fire people...
...then there are the strongmen of the former Soviet republics of central Asia, for whom being caught in a battle for influence between Washington and Moscow has clear advantages. Bakiyev made clear that the Manas decision was a financial one - Russia was ponying up cash, and Washington hasn't been paying enough, as far as the Kyrgyz leader is concerned. But he gave the Americans six months to vacate the base, and, well, a lot can happen in six months. U.S. officials say negotiations on the base deal are ongoing. Given Russian indications - and the loopholes left by Bakiyev...