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How did your life collide with the headlines in 2007?
Iraq, the subprime crisis, Facebook, immigration, oil prices - 2007 had no shortage of hefty headlines. We'd like to hear about how these and other major news events of the past year affected you. Where did your life collide with the news in 2007?

What's your holiday performance story?
The office talent show, the neighborhood caroling posse, the school pageant ... At holiday time we often sing, dance, and dress as shepherds. Did you bloom in the warmth of your audience's adulation, or freeze up like the snowman you'd rather be building? Did your holiday performance change your life or that of someone close to you?

Poll - Smoking Ban

In the wake of the Grasso debacle and Friday's revelations about the $22 million retirement compensation packages for the co-chief operating officers of the New York Stock Exchange, what do YOU consider to be "fair compensation?" Of the selections below, which comes closest to what you think is "fair?"

Take as much as you can get

6.9 %

$187 million

0.0 %

$22 million

3.4 %

A million or less

72.4 %

These positions should be unpaid (pro bono)

17.2 %

Online Resources
"Public smoking ban turns 2" (Arizona Republic)
" Bar, Restaurant Smoking Ban Set Back in D.C." (Washington Post)
"Ban smoking/There's no excuse for delay " (Star Tribune)
"Premier cool on beach smoking ban" (The Age - Australia)
"The Daily Star" (The Daily Star - Lebanon)

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