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...This isn't to say that Sunday's reports weren't accurate, but with a lot more naturally occurring flotsam whizzing around space than the man-made kind, Earth is always in the path of something or other. A sonic boom is perfectly consistent with anything entering our atmosphere, as is a visible fireball - hence the phenomenon of the shooting star. On any other day, the Texas sightings would be dismissed as nothing more than that. Those rocks don't reach the ground because the atmosphere dispatches them neatly, and it should have no trouble digesting the satellite junk...
...room at the Mandarin Oriental hotel. I was expecting to join an enormous gathering of the greatest comedy writers in the world, who would mock me with cutting barbs about my relative youth and handsomeness. Instead, there were three dudes eating Gummi Bears from the minibar. Two of them weren't even Jewish. The third was a 27-year-old who makes Web videos and got the job when he was pitching a movie idea to Jackman's company--an idea it turned down. The Emmys, I'm guessing, is written by two interns in Bangalore...
...hardest job of my life, it wasn't even the hardest job of my week. We brought in a guy who wrote music, and six days later, the opening number was complete. It's not bad, and when Jackman sings it, it's great. Because while we weren't smart enough to write great jokes, we were smart enough to figure out that Oscar audiences don't remember jokes. They remember whether the host set the celebratory mood, as Crystal did. Our job was to get out of the way of Jackman's charm, and if that meant ordering room...
...high-risk, overweight, four-pack-a-day smoker to change behavior, it's going to take a whole lot bigger incentive than for a 22-year-old who's healthy as a horse," says Bill Sims, president of an eponymous behavior-change consulting firm. Amica's diabetic employees weren't tempted by a subsidized gym membership. But they did respond to a plan that focused on behaviors they could manage and that offered appropriate rewards--free meds--to reinforce them...
...Problem was, the House Democrats weren't resolved. Their initial hesitancy to sign on reflected their frustration at the cuts to state aid and education dollars that were made to woo the crucial votes of three Republican Senators as well as moderate Democrats. Three hours and a few tweaks later, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi finally announced her support. "We're having a very - shall we say - highly spirited caucus right now, people's spirits are high," Pelosi said, emerging from a meeting of House Democrats. "They're very proud of the work that we did in the House to create...