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...journalist. "That's your job." Duly noted. Since 1990, Roberts has generated nearly $1.5 billion in domestic ticket sales. But even as she has become a regular part of our Friday nights at the movies, she's become an integral part of our weekdays at the water cooler--most recently because of her breakup with actor Benjamin Bratt, her boyfriend of nearly four years. (They actually split not long after the Oscars, but she still calls him "the greatest guy.") We follow her personal travails because we project our dreams onto movie stars, and so we want her to live...
...other reason to cut 25 points is to display a little optimism. Sure, Wall Street will moan that he's abandoning corporate America (again), but the cooler heads will realize that maybe Greenspan figures that after five straight 50-pointers, things are finally picking up. (See Tuesday's economic numbers...
...unaided eye, the images are meaningless. A statistical analysis, however, shows that the early lumps--actually patches of slightly warmer or cooler radiation--don't come at random but rather at certain fixed sizes. "It's as though you're studying dogs," says University of Pennsylvania astrophysicist Max Tegmark, "and you find out that they come in just three types: Labrador, toy poodle and Chihuahua...
...doubtful Woody's descendants--or anyone else's--will hang around for the cookout. One possible escape route: an exodus to Mars, which is farther from the sun and hence cooler. But it would take a lot of engineering to turn Mars' frozen, Gobi-like surface into a livable habitat. (Among proposals that have been floated: heating the planet with artificial greenhouse gases, deploying huge orbiting mirrors to catch sunlight and sprinkling heat-absorbing soot on the Martian icecaps.) Eventually, says Mars promoter Robert Zubrin, visitors wouldn't need spacesuits anymore...
...self-resuscitators are also being helped by the increasing popularity of vintage clothes. The everything-old-is-new-again trend means wearing Pauline Trigere is cooler than wearing Donna Karan. Old Chanel is better than new. In which case, Texas Pacific Group may have hit the mother lode in the somnolent 150-year-old Bally, which it bought late in 1999. Bally has a reputation for expensive, well-made shoes that register zero on the Richter scale. But the new creative director, Scott Fellows, has something most designers don't: a Harvard M.B.A. (He also attended the Fashion Institute...