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Four Seasons plans luxury Disney World resort

Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts officials say they've secured financing to build a $360 million (euro264 million) resort at Walt Disney World in Florida.

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Why Women Don’t Get Venture Capital

My daughter fell on her nose at camp this summer. This, in a nutshell is why I’m reluctant to seek venture capital or to build my business, FamiliesGo!, in a way that necessitates it

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The Secret Behind Campbell’s Soup

...as former Campbell's Soup Company CEO Doug Conant brought the brand back by encouraging every possibility. It was 2001 when Doug Conant became CEO of the Campbell Soup Company—he was just the eleventh man to hold the title in the company's 132-year history.

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Finding Buried Earthquake Victims By Smelling Their Breath And Sweat

A new machine lets first responders find people trapped at disaster sites by detecting individual molecules of breath, sweat, and urine that float up through the concrete. Firefighters and other first responders rushing to collapsing buildings and disaster situations will soon have a new weapon in their arsenal, replacing dogs, cameras, and robots: a series of sensors that find individual molecules of sweat and spit coming from victims trapped under concrete, locating them by their emissions. The high-tech emergency solution, which was unveiled in a research paper for the actually existing Journal of Breath Research, was created by a joint European team that reconfigured a series of commercially available detectors to hunt for unique human emanations.

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Continental Europe out to end Vivendi losing run

PARIS (AP) -Continental Europe will seek to end the domination of Britain & Ireland in the Vivendi Seve Trophy when both teams square off this week on the golf course of Saint-Nom-la-Breteche.

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Video: Why laughter feels so good

British researchers say the muscular exertion involved in laughing triggers an increase of endorphins in the brain, making it enjoyable. Jeff Glor reports

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Prescreen: The Social Movie Finder That Wants To Shake-Up Online Video

Every day just became your own personal film festival. Launching today, Prescreen is calling itself a "social movie discovery platform" that's designed to "give filmmakers and distributors an alternative to traditional advertising and distribution channels." That is, it's a web interface wrapped in a social network to a curated catalog of films that may otherwise have had difficulty finding a distribution deal.

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Get Connected With Yammer

It’s becoming common practice among small businesses to have employees spread out all over the country and even all over the globe. How do you establish a company culture when employees are not working together in the same office everyday?

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