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A New Orleans serial (social) entrepreneur, Robbie Vitrano, explains how Hurricane Katrina made him think differently about entrepreneurship. Hurricane Katrina was the moment of truth for Robbie Vitrano. "It pushed me to confront those issues about my place in business, and the role of business in this situation," he said at GrowCo in New Orleans this week.

It's not all about you; it's all about them. Tara Hunt of Buyosphere and Lauren Thom of Fleurty Girl show how to really make an impression on your clients

BPA, a chemical commonly used in food and beverage can packaging, has been linked to hyperactive behavior in children, breast cancer among other diseases

Researchers transplanted certain cells from the kidney donor's bone marrow along with the new organ

Redditor found out that he had Cushing's syndrome after reading comments posted on a picture that had gone viral on the site

By Elie Dolgin of Nature magazine Graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) is a common and often deadly complication of bone-marrow transplantation that occurs when immune cells from an unrelated donor attack the transplant recipient's tissue. [More]

Apple officially unveiled its new iPad, coming to stores March 16. Tablet screens don't get any better than this

The interactive USDA Plant Hardiness Map allows users to view the plants most likely to thrive in any U.S.

By Richard Monastersky of Nature magazine As soon as the shaking died down on 11 March last year, Ken-Ichi Sato stumbled back to his office and pressed the alarm button, triggering sirens throughout the city of Kesennuma in northeastern Japan. [More]

By Kerri Smith of Nature magazine Kamilah lives in San Diego, California, is 35 years old, weighs 136 kilograms and has a dark fur coat covering her skin. [More]

Greenlight Music , a new effort from Corbis, is designed to make accessing professional music content easy. Its web page explains it pretty exactly: "Get the right to use the world's most popular music in your commercial project

Apple just pulled the covers off the new iPad--its latest tablet in the post-PC era, and just as the rumors said it would be, it's all about its amazing new screen. Apple's new iPad is being revealed today in San Francisco: It's physically a lot like the iPad 2 , there's still a home button (quashing some wild rumors about it going) and yes--it has a fabulous 2,048 by 1,536 pixel screen

Uncommon Jewish circumcision ritual "metzizah b'peh" may have led to disease transmission; Brooklyn DA investigates

Snooki, a.k.a. Nicole Polizzi, has confirmed to US Weekly that she is indeed 15 weeks pregnant and engaged to fellow "Jersey Shore" star Jionni LaValle.

FDA says a 39-year-old woman had more than 100 times the average amount of mercury in her urine and had symptoms of mercury poisoning