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Video: Clown doctors

Jim Axelrod introduces you to a group of doctors who volunteer and dress up like clowns at hospitals to help turn patient frowns upside down.

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An Electric Trike In The Trunk Makes For The Ultimate Hybrid Eco-Car

Chinese car firm Geely has a gift for you in the trunk of its electric McCar vehicle: A tiny electric trike that's actually charged as you drive the bigger car. It could be the perfect vehicle to solve city traffic problems

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A Starry Night on Sark Island

Photograph by Chris Floyd FORGET BLUE skies -- for a growing community of stargazing tourists, darkness is all they want. "People have never seen the Milky Way," says Rowena Davis of the International Dark-Sky Association, which identifies the earth's best locales for appreciating the heavens

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When Venture Capital Was an Adventure

George Doriot, the father of venture capitalism, liked to quip "Someone, somewhere, is making a product that will make your product obsolete." Doriot died in 1987, but his ideas about venture funding can be seen to this day; Intel, Apple, and Cisco (to name a few) are some of the first companies to be funded by venture capitalists. The VCs that followed in his footsteps—including Tom Perkins, Arthur Rock, and Don Valentine—have, through their work, trailblazed a path of American innovation.

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Big Business in Small Packages

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs.

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Building a Personal Brand

Former Wall Street Journal fashion journalist Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan was toying with the idea of writing a food memoir when she was laid off in 2009. She promptly landed a book deal and spent the next year traveling to Singapore to research what became the just-out A Tiger in the Kitchen

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Video: Should I date my best friend?

TODAY’s Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb talk with Donny Deutsch, who answers viewer questions about love and relationships, including what to do when your best friend wants to date but you’re not attracted to him. (TODAY)

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Ultrasound Provides Breakthrough In Brain Treatment

The blood-brain barrier keeps bacteria out--which is good. But for patients with brain tumors, it also keeps out life-saving medicine. A startup thinks it can fix that by using ultrasound

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Video: Breakthrough flu treatment?

Jeff Glor reports on what's being called a breakthrough flu treatment developed at the University of Texas that's inhaled -- no shots needed -- and fights all flu strains.

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