[00:01]herb

[00:03]Combine the chopped eggs, herbs, celery and red

[00:07]onion in a large bowl, and season to taste with salt and pepper.

[00:13]herd

[00:14]Habits are a funny thing. We reach for them mindlessly,

[00:18]setting our brains on auto-pilot and relaxing into the

[00:21]unconscious comfort of familiar routine. "Not choice, but

[00:25]habit rules the unreflecting herd," William Wordsworth

[00:29]said in the 19th century.

[00:33]curl

[00:35]Though the hotel regularly moves the lounge furniture

[00:38]around, one table often has "a wide sofa that's perfect to

[00:43]curl up on and smooch."

[00:46]hurl

[00:48]Even more, he said, he despises the people who "go to

[00:52]the gutter on either the right or the left, and hurl rocks at

[00:55]those in the center."

[00:58]cushion

[01:00]In fact, the helicopter was so lightly damaged that it is

[01:03]being repaired so that the test can be repeated-but this

[01:07]time without the cushion-to obtain comparable data.

[01:15]fashion

[01:17]His colleague, Michael Beer, says that far too many

[01:21]companies have applied reengineering in a mechanistic

[01:25]fashion, chopping out costs without giving sufficient

[01:28]thought to long-term profitability.

[01:33]toast

[01:34]At a formal dinner in a Beijing hotel last week, Israeli

[01:38]Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin toasted a rotund 72-year old

[01:43]at the table and offered a tribute: "Mr. Eisenber

[01:47]opened the doors to China for Israel."