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If you didn't know what Fair Trade was five years ago, you certainly do now. As the label becomes ubiquitous, CEO Paul Rice is taking the standard into new industries and to new heights.
Read More »Has America gone crazy for antidepressants? What new report says
Antidepressant use rose 400 percent since report from a decade earlier, CDC said
Read More »Will GenY Entrepreneurship Be a Disaster?
How could anyone think that GenY's love of entrepreneurship is a bad thing? You'd be surprised
Read More »Why I Continue to Serve
After losing a limb in leading a platoon through an ambush in Iraq, Halfaker transformed her life of service in the military into a life of service through entrepreneurship.
Read More »The Demographics Of Occupy Wall Street
Students are a big contingent at Zucotti Park and other occupations.
Read More »Dead last in health care? U.S., 15 other nations ranked
When it comes to stopping preventable deaths, some countries do a lot better than others. How about the U.S.
Read More »Richard Branson On The Environmental Impact Of Space Travel
Branson thinks that by being in space, people become more passionate about the planet. And he's planning on helping out cash-strapped NASA with its research, too. Earlier this week, Virgin Galactic --the space travel arm of the Virgin Group--debuted the first-ever spaceport in New Mexico
Read More »He turned ex’s wedding dress into book success
Kevin Cotter turned heartbreak into hilarity with his blog about creative uses for his ex’s wedding dress, from doggie toy to pasta strainer.
Read More »Cat Stroking, Not Facebook Poking, Satisfies Needs For Real Interaction
Forget poking on Facebook or IMing people, shaking a hand or putting an arm on someone else's shoulder is where social interaction really begins. In Japan, this need for touch has extended to a focus on pets, including cafes for petting cats
Read More »Mo Lam, Founder and CEO of TwoChop
He is the founder and CEO of TwoChop, a content gamification platform that takes content and turns it into games.
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He is the founder and CEO of TwoChop, a content gamification platform that takes content and turns it into games. Advertisement: Grainger has lighting products covered.
Read More »Annual cervical cancer screening a bad idea, panel suggests
"The more tests that you do, the more likely you are to be faced with a false-positive test," U.S. task force said
Read More »Infographic: People Are Starving, But There Is Enough Food To Go Around
One in seven people in the world is malnourished. But the solution isn't producing more food
Read More »Video: Haiti quake amputee soccer team meets military vets
Team Zaryean from Haiti is mostly made up of victims of the 2010 earthquake and they traveled to Washington, D.C.
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