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Feed SubscriptionJump into marriage: Skydiver gets proposal to remember
Jumping out a plane can be excitement enough, but Katie Mikolyski's skydive on Tuesday is one she will never forget.
Read More »Why Entrepreneurs Should Celebrate this Thanksgiving
We have plenty of reasons to complain. High unemployment, a frozen political system, an economy still struggling to get out of recession. Let's focus on the good stuff instead.
Read More »Warby Parker Disrupts the Eyewear Industry
Neil Blumenthal and David Gilboa, two founders of Warby Parker, explain how they dramatically undercut the dominant glasses makers. They position their $95 vintage-inspired frames like women's fashion accessories--not just to be sold when a prescription runs out.
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Researchers have identified hundreds of different genetic defects that help make each cancer unique. Dr
Read More »New therapy targets a patient’s unique cancer
Identifying a specific mutation and finding a targeted drug shows promise
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Dangers of Thanksgiving dinner?
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News that Oneal Ron Morris was arrested for injecting a woman's buttocks with a combination of cement, Fix-A-Flat and Superglue stunned readers.
Read More »Video: HealthPop: Turkey troubles, chemical cans, burning boxers
A special Thanksgiving edition of HealthPop - Doctors discover that in the first hour after eating a big meal, you're ten times more likely to have a heart attack; Also, new tests reveal troubling levels of BPA in canned foods; And, a Japanese company develops a pair of undies that promise to help you lose weight.
Read More »The Elf That Stole Christmas
Christa Pitts left her job at QVC to help her mother and sister create a book and toy that have become a holiday tradition. In 2005, Christa Pitts left her job as a QVC host to help her mother, Carol Aebersold, and twin sister, Chanda Bell, launch Elf on the Shelf. The Marietta, Georgia-based company makes books and toys based on the family's Christmas tradition, which includes a toy elf who monitors naughty and nice behavior for Santa
Read More »Obesity now begins in kindergarten? What new study says
Forty percent of kindergarteners found to have high BMIs, with Hispanic children and black girls at highest risk
Read More »This Week In Bots: The Thanksgiving Edition
[youtube 9psNh-dJTDU] Kinect House Maids Meet SmartPal VII , a kind of interim stage before truly automated robot and butler bots start cleaning up your household mess for you--SmartPal's brains are actually you. The robot from Yashkawa Electric is designed to be controlled via a gesture and motion-tracking interface powered through a Microsoft Kinect system
Read More »CSi: Crime Scene iPhones Yield Forensic Evidence, Confusion About Data Handling
During the trial of Dr. Conrad Murray concerning the death of pop icon Michael Jackson, prosecutors used Dr. Murray's iPhone to collect forensic evidenc.
Read More »For Video Game Makers, Playing The Competition Is A Heroic Task
For most executives, sizing up the competition means reading white papers or paying researchers to conduct market analyses.
Read More »How to Make a Trade Show Profitable
If youre going to spend thousands of dollars for a trade show booth, get your moneys worth.
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