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Good week for:

New Jersey taxpayers, after Gov. Chris Christie vetoed a $420,000 film tax credit for the popular MTV reality show Jersey Shore. Christie said he refused to provide a “Snooki Subsidy” for a show that “does nothing more than perpetuate misconceptions about the state and its citizens.”

NASA, after a 6-ton satellite fell out of orbit and landed harmlessly in the South Pacific. When the satellite disappeared off radar, one scientist said, the fear was: “Wow, did it hit Seattle?’’

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Hiring older workers, after a survey of 3,000 Britons found that people under 30 were twice as likely to stay home from work with a cold, the flu, or other illness as people over 55. The young were also more likely to not show up because of a hangover.

Bad week for:

Owning an aquarium, after a new study found that ornamental fish kept in tanks bite, murder, and cannibalize each other far more often than they do in the wild, apparently because they’re angry about living in crowded, confined spaces.

Kissing a girl and liking it, after Leisha Hailey, an actress who starred in The L Word, was kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight for smooching her girlfriend. Southwest said other passengers complained that the kissing made them uncomfortable.

Jim Dear, the mayor of Carson, Calif., who tried to get a street named after himself, but gave up when constituents flooded a meeting and mocked him as “a narcissist,” “childish,” and “self-serving.” Dear told the critics they were “haters.”