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A medical center in Maine is offering a different kind of payment plan in order to make health care more accessible. Erica Hill reports on the center's barter for health care program.
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There’s a fundamental difference between the rebels of the past and today: Generation Y are born entrepreneurs. Every generation rebels against their parents. When parents approve, their offspring disapproves.
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Sean Parker, the Napster co-founder and Facebook president, says early-stage investors will fund almost anything these days. That's not good. The normally party-happy but press-shy tech entrepreneur Sean Parker was a bit of a buzzkill on the subject of Silicon Valley Tuesday
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Took your eye off your goal? Take these suggestions to get back on track. Becky McCray publisher of Small Biz Survival advises how to stay focused day to day
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Researchers have released results on a new drug that dramatically elevates good cholesterol at the same time as lowering bad cholesterol. Dr. Jon LaPook reports
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Twenty-odd years of fastidious engineering and unsurpassed quality have put Lexus in the pantheon of luxury automakers. But if there’s been one gripe leveled at Toyota’s luxury division over the years, it’s that the company has played it safe in the design department. It’s a complaint that hasn’t fallen on ...
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A traveling interactive exhibition focusing on haute couture designer Jean Paul Gaultier made its American debut at the Dallas Museum of Art this month. The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk opened in Dallas, the first of only two U.S
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Today was perhaps the most emotional day in the two-month-old Occupy Wall Street movement. Coming shortly after dramatic park clearings in cities such as Oakland (for the second time) and Portland, the epicenter of the movement, Zuccotti Park in Manhattan, was trashed, hosed, and disinfected starting about 1 a.m.
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Men who regularly take several medications are at increased risk for sexual problems , a new study says.
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From baby mice wine to snake soup, take a look at one daring man's adventure in the name of health
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