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Man On Wire is the film that won best documentary at the Oscars this week. It chronicles Philippe Petit's daring, and illegal, walk on a wire strung between the twin towers of the World Trader Center 35 years ago.



Interviewed on Weekend Edition with Scott Simon, Simon asked him what would have happened if he had slipped.

Petit's answer was "That is a wrong question for me...I do not put myself in a state of question mark on the wire...the question mark I transform into an… Continue

I have a 100% success rate with smokers. That’s right 100%. Not one smoking client has ever smoked while in my office. I’m being ridiculous right? Yes, but there’s no denying that my success rate is 100% under that criterion and that’s the point. You cannot have a meaningful success rate without defining what success is. So exactly how long does a smoker have to refrain from smoking before he goes into your success column? If I define the time as 2 weeks and you define it at as 2 years we can… Continue

Allow yourself to take a deep breath

and as you gently exhale,

drift back to when snow drifted high...

illuminated by stars in the black frosty night...

with a soft jingle of sleigh bells in the distance.

Drift back to a time...

when you knew reindeer could fly.

Now step in from the cold holy night...

into a room bathed in a welcoming glow...

warmed by a cheery…

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