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GolfChannel: Bubba Watson is among the leaders battling in the third round of the Deutsche Bank Open in Boston.

If the whole thing started with a ring, why shouldn't it end with one? One jeweler is now selling a divorce ring — complete with a solitaire and jagged broken heart — for $3,200

Nine manufacturers agree to voluntary recall after reports that fuel caused scores of injuries and two deaths

Irene may not have lived up to expectations where the cameras were, but its impact is still being felt farther inland, where the real damage was. A report from the floods. Despite numerous predictions to the contrary, Hurricane Irene didn't blow North Carolina's Outer Banks to pieces or push a deadly storm surge through the streets of Baltimore.

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Foxconn's Huge Profit . Foxconn , maker of hardware for Apple and a number of peer computing firms, has reported $943 billion profits for the first half of 2011, a significant turnaround from its $218 million loss for all of 2010.

A GameStop employee posts a photo of himself planking, and gets himself and the co-worker who took the picture, fired. GameStop's business is entertainment, but the company made it clear that those on the clock shouldn't be partaking in the fun and games. The Grapevine, Texas-based company fired an employee who went planking on the job, as well as the fellow employee who snapped the photo of him doing so between two in-store kiosks.

The original Top Chef, Harold Dieterle, gives advice on turning a reality show appearance into an entrepreneurial reality. Chef Harold Dieterle has done what many others have failed to do: he's whipped 15 minutes of reality show fame into two successful, critically acclaimed New York City restaurants

Firefighters are battling against wildfires in Texas and Oklahoma. Scott Pelley speaks with Jason Allen of CBS Station KTVT in Dallas-Fort Worth who is near the fire line to find out if firefighters are getting a handle on the situation.

For months, many New York City firefighters worked in the toxic air at ground zero, digging through the rubble of the World Trade Center. Now, as Dr

"There's a reason we've never gone back to the moon," teases the poster for the new horror sci-fi flick "Apollo 18." The movie claims to reveal decades-old footage of astronauts on a secret mission two years after Apollo 17 -- the last real expedition to the moon -- flew in 1972. (Without giving away anything that isn't in the trailer, lunar aliens apparently share some blame for our 40-year absence from the moon.) In actuality, NASA did prepare for Apollos 18, 19 and 20.

Here comes the next generation of innovators revolutionizing batteries. Per-Ivar Sellergren is helping Volvo put energy storage--both batteries and high-power supercapacitors--in the body panels of cars. Photo by Christian Aslund Per-Ivar Sellergren Senior Research and Development Engineer Volvo Car Corp., Goeteborg, Sweden Sellergren, 60, is helping Volvo put energy storage--both batteries and high-power supercapacitors--in the body panels of cars

In chef Gabrielle Hamilton's best-selling memoir Blood, Bones & Butter , she tells of running into a colleague on the street, where he introduced her to his mother as "one of the two best female chefs in New York City." Hamilton, owner of beloved East Village restaurant Prune and newly minted James Beard Award winner, then turned to the mother and cracked, "You know what would be great next? If we could just take the word 'female' out of the sentence." Yes, women chefs are still definitely a minority, even though the likes of Hamilton, Nancy Silverton (Los Angeles's Osteria Mozza), Stephanie Izard (Chicago's Girl & the Goat)—and of course the old-school game changers Alice Waters and Lydia Bastianich before them—run wildly popular, critically praised establishments. So how do female chefs not only deal, but thrive in a notoriously macho industry

We tend to take easy, safe access to potable water for granted until there's a shortage in access to it (like in Texas) or an overflow (as with Hurricane Irene). And in reality, there are a number of water risks that the world will face in the coming years, including deteriorating water quality, growing competition for limited access to resources, and an increase in water scarcity. The World Resource Institute's Water Risk Atlas outlines those risks--and gives a preview of what you can expect in your town or city in the coming years.

I’m writing from a restaurant in the Mexico City airport, a plate of spicy fajitas in my belly.

I like to look at most areas of life as a game. If I didn't think it were fun to navigate the challenges of the game called "business," I wouldn't have taken the career path I have