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...passage Wednesday and Thursday through the trail of the Tempel-Tuttle comet. Each year on or around November 18, different parts of the world are treated to the Leonids - a show of "shooting stars" (actually meteoroids from the comet's tail). Normally 10 to 20 light up the night sky each hour, but this year the show should be considerably better. Astronomical records dating to the beginning of the millennium show that every 33 years or so the Leonids spike a little as the comet passes by the sun and leaves a larger trail of icy bits. The last time...
...founder like yourself has a bright future. What is your exit strategy? A) Corporate buy-out. Earn a six-figure salary as CEO, hire a manager, dump your equity and spend the rest of your days playing Microsoft Golf 2000; B) IPO. Drum up hype, watch your stock price sky rocket, dump your equity and move to Vegas; C) Consolidate ownership. Convince your partners that the company is on the fast track to success, confess you are not the most qualified leader, sell your equity (for a reasonable price that includes "future earnings"), and go to law school; D) Wake...
Even more promising is Cleopatra 2525, from Rob Tapert and R.J. Stewart, the co-creators of Xena, which still outdraws all these other shows, including V.I.P. and Baywatch. Cleopatra will have Xena's Jennifer Sky playing a stripper whose botched breast-augmentation procedure requires her to be frozen. When she's accidentally thawed in the 26th century, she, Hercules actress Gina Torres and newcomer Victoria Pratt get chased around by robots. But they too are going to spend their time fighting for the environment. There must be some FCC equation for how much sexual exploitation one can do for each...
This summer, sitting at L.A.'s babe-filled Sky Bar, I was looking at an older, married guy on a business trip who was wistfully scoping out the action. I asked my two friends, both of whom had girlfriends, if they thought we'd wind up like him, as sexually stunted as Stanley Kubrick must have been when he directed Eyes Wide Shut. "By the time I'm his age, you know what I'll be thinking about?" one of them asked, staring at a hot but annoyingly giggly blond. "Pie. A nice piece of pie. Even right...
...BLUE-SKY INVESTING Your mutual-fund manager may start betting on the weather, literally. This month two energy firms are expected to issue some $100 million in "weather bonds," whose returns are based solely on average temperatures. These new bonds, rated in the BB range, allow weather-sensitive businesses--utilities, ski resorts--to hedge against losses caused by extreme temperatures. If Mother Nature behaves, holders can expect 10% to 30% returns; but a mild winter or scorching summer could melt profits and principal. On another front, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange started trading weather futures in September. Along with pork bellies...