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...Just before he found out that the folks who paid him were seeking someone else to do it, BusinessWeek.com's editor in chief John A. Byrne wrote, "What newspapers and magazines are going through right now is a business-model problem, not a readership problem." For Business Week, actually, it's a bit of both: the magazine's total audience declined during the first six months of 2009, according to the latest MRI data, while Fortune's and Forbes' grew. Interestingly, in the same period, its website, with the much touted Business Exchange - a business-news aggregator cum social-networking...
...broadcaster Chris Berman's attempts to hit on women at ESPN's ESPY Awards. Wilson thought twice about his comments later, but Tweleted preserved them. A quick glance over the deleted tweets of Twitter's top users reveals that most have been on their best behavior, though John Mayer apparently thought this little gem - "Wearing corduroy pants means having a nail file on you all the time" - was too inane even by Twitter's standards...
...float into the shuttle's instruments and break something? To keep things simple, astronauts on the Project Mercury and Gemini missions ate pureed foods squeezed out of tubes. "It was like serving them baby food in a toothpaste container," explains Vickie Kloeris, NASA's Space Food Systems Laboratory manager. John Glenn was the first person to eat in space; in 1962 he ingested applesauce and reported relatively easy digestion...
...Gemini 3 astronaut John Young surprised his crew members when he pulled out a corned-beef-on-rye sandwich purchased from a Florida deli. Pizza Hut "delivered" a vacuum-sealed pizza to the Mir space station in 2001, and ISS member Peggy Whitson requested a pecan pie in 2002. Tortillas have been on every mission since 1985, when Mexican scientist Rodolfo Neri Vela brought them onboard a space-shuttle mission. In fact, NASA now provides astronauts with their own partially dehydrated tortillas made by the same company that supplies Taco Bell...
...There is now an Angela's Ashes walking tour in Limerick, and the university there awarded him a doctorate. He spent three months as a writer-in-residence in London, at the Savoy Hotel, and another term at the American Academy in Rome (during that time, he met Pope John Paul II and rather embarrassedly knelt and kissed his ring). But by all accounts McCourt himself was in no way transformed by his success. Though that doesn't mean he didn't enjoy it immensely. "I wrote a book about growing up miserable, and the next thing I know...