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For shoppers who care about healthier eating, deciphering food labels can be like reading a foreign language...which is why some people just keep an eye out for one simple word, "natural." But as Manuel Gallegus found out, "natural" is probably not what you think.
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Right now I am staring at a message that has been haunting me for weeks, hovering dangerously at the top of my Gmail inbox.
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New data suggests something surprising: Microsoft's dominance of the computer game is still in place, but it's slipping. It's losing its browser lead, too.
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Research in Motion tries to improve its smartphone game, following a series of dismal announcements. Research in Motion, makers of the BlackBerry, need a Hail Mary pass. Its sales are dropping; a few week ago, it put out dismal numbers
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Unbelievable as it may sound, not all young men want more sex.
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Last year, the Corn Refiners Association decided that the term "high fructose corn syrup" just didn't have same catchy ring to it as "sugar." The solution: re-brand HFCS as "corn sugar" and launch a marketing blitz to educate the public about the wonders of this freshly named, all-natural product. Now sugar farmers are fighting back to reclaim their good name--even though it has recently been tarnished .
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And other stories about how the news of Al Qaeda’s leader’s passing ping-ponged around the web and social media, from BNO News to George W. Bush. It was one of the most tweeted--but not the single most tweeted--events, Twitter tells us.
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