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Hundreds of military officials are joining together to fight a war here at home - where calories are the enemy. CBS News correspondent Whit Johnson reports on how America's growing weight problem means that finding new soldiers who are fit enough to fight has never been more challenging. Then, celebrity chef Jose Andres joins the discussion about health and nutrition in America

U.S. businesses struggle to find workers with certain key skills, but a quarter of young men drop out of high school. Does we need to rethink how we train kids for jobs

On a morning in July 1868, British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron’s breakfast was interrupted by the news that her neighbor, the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, had arrived with a gentleman and wanted to speak with her. Tennyson’s tagalong was none other than Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who had traveled from America ...

What if your brand was sucked into a controversy it had nothing to do with? Here's how it happens.

Daydreaming about leaving your day job? See if you fit the profile of a successful entrepreneur--or if you're better off staying where you are. So, you have a great idea for a business

A new movement fueled by college-aged entrepreneurs and the organizations that support them is just beginning to take off.

The CEO of BuyCostumes.com has a new method for predicting election results: sales of paper masks in the likenesses of the candidates.

In her sophomore year at Chicago's ACE Technical Charter High School, Kewauna Lerma had a 2.25 GPA. Yet when Jeff Nelson met Kewauna, he knew she was capable of getting into and graduating from a four-year college. Nelson is the cofounder and Executive Director of Urban Students Empowered ( US Empowered ), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to college preparedness and college persistence (keeping students in college once they have enrolled) for low-income high school students.

Three of every four "small business" contracts awarded by the U.S. government go to the likes of Apple, Chevron and GE. In the last fiscal year, 72 of the federal government’s top 100 small business contractors were some of the world’s largest companies

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After achieving two important milestones, what's next for Eventbrite? The last time Fast Company caught up with the folks at Eventbrite , the online ticketing service was celebrating the opening of its first international office in London. Now, it has two more benchmarks to be proud of: It issued its 50 millionth ticket, and CEO and cofounder Kevin Hartz tells

By now, you have probably heard the call by democrats and environmentalists to end the $4 billion in subsidies for big oil.

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Entrepreneurs play a bigger role in the health of their cities -- and reap more from their success -- than you might suspect. Location, location, location! We’ve all heard that, for many small businesses, one of the keys to success lies in landing the right real estate