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PGT: When Tiger Woods was winning tournaments, he was considered to be an unstoppable machine — mechanically perfect, competitive like a Terminator and unflappable on any stage. After shooting a 7-over 77 at the PGA Championship on Thursday, Woods looks like a machine in need of emergency repair.
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New Social CRM software is being developed everyday.
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Listen up, Mark Twain fans! River cruising in America is poised to undergo a new renaissance, with steamboat operations soon to return to the Mississippi River.
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Aaron Levie, No. 59 on our list of the Most Creative People in Business, has a simple vision : Users should be able to share and access their content from anywhere, on any device. But as simple as that notion sounds, the execution is far from effortless for Levie, the co-founder and CEO of cloud-storage startup Box (formerly Box.net)
Read More »Non-Organic Chicken Is Creating Drug-Resistant Diseases
Even if you don't care about the environment or animal welfare, you should care about this: The antibiotics conventional farms pump into their birds results in deadly bacteria that doesn't respond to normal treatment. Forget whether it tastes better or is nicer to the bird. Non-organic chickens are a public health issue.
Read More »Bioengineered anal sphincter could transform fecal incontinence care
Experts in regenerative medicine use human nerve, muscle cells to create what they say is world's first replacement sphincter
Read More »Senegalese Village Wipes Out Malaria With Mosquito Nets And Fines For Not Using Them
In Thienaba, Senegal, David Arquette discovers that preventing malaria doesn't always require high-tech solutions.
Read More »Are people addicted to tanning? What brain study says
New study suggests frequent tanners' brains behave similar to alcoholics, drug addicts
Read More »The First Bank of Blizzard: Are Virtual Currencies The Next Safe Havens?
Now that a major online role-playing company has effectively created a functioning market for in-game currencies, gold farming is going to become a viable part of the global economy.
Read More »TabCo Says Its Tablet Tech Knows What You Want Before You Do
With the misty complexity of its thickly shrouded pre-launch PR, TabCo has the tech world intrigued as to what it may actually deliver. A spokesperson offers Fast Company some exclusive new details about the company's most innovative tricks. For a company whose products no one has actually seen or knows much about,
Read More »Sister Act
Sisters Sabina and Lorraine Belkin get on sickeningly well: They live together, have the same friends, even go to the gym together. They also co-own Duo Restaurant & Lounge, New York City eatery. How do they keep their relationship healthy while working together in a notoriously stressful industry
Read More »Groupon’s Revised S-1 Offers Hints At Its Profitable Future
Did the new numbers in Groupon's pre-IPO filing leave you ready to write off the daily deals company? Maybe you should take a second look
Read More »Heart disease risk 25 percent higher for women smokers: Study
Analysis of data from studies as far back as 1966 show women smokers 25 percent more likely to develop heart disease than men who smoke
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