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...sounds quite dire, but this is actually fantastic news for those of us whose employment does not directly depend upon darting in and out of international locales on a semi-daily basis. These findings, after all, provide us with a great excuse for extending our vacations: You wanted me back at the office for that board meeting next week? Ooh, sorry. No can do. I?ve recently learned that returning from Fiji so quickly could be dangerous to my spatial cognitive functioning. And I really can?t imagine you?d want an employee hampered by such a terrible impediment hanging...
...comedy bits and star walk-ons - the aesthetic is somewhere between an awards show and an insurance dealers' regional sales meeting. They're followed by cocktail parties where the networks pimp out their celebs to mingle among laundry-detergent marketing directors and managers of affiliate stations, earning goodwill among semi-bigwigs who get to go home to Lacrosse or Abilene with a picture of themselves next to an artfully-concealing-her-chagrin Heather Locklear...
...stuff that I didn't even really want," like a tux-and-tails outfit, complete with top hat and monocle. But life is hardly simple for a boy who became the world's most recognizable 10-year-old with the success of Home Alone. Even now he has "a semi-fear of the outdoors" and rarely goes out to movies ("sometimes the theater experience is a little, you know, there's a person chatting in front of you, a person coughing next to you..."). He watches wrestling and The Simpsons on TV and just bought...
...Crimson had the opportunity to speak with guitarist Adam Gardner about Guster’s rise to semi-stardom, the upcoming album, song writing and failing classes...
...bubble wrap itself, not just the bags. Young was already buying the stuff for her own packing needs in 750-ft. rolls. She just increased her order. By a lot. And she got a little system going. Since 250-ft. units sold best, every roll that came off the semi had to be divided into three. So she laid an old card table on her living-room floor, its legs sticking up. She put a roll of bubble wrap on one leg and rerolled it onto another, cutting off swaths of 250 ft. Before long, she was shipping...