One&Only Palmilla in Los Cabos, Mexico, has opened the first international outpost of the PGA Tour Academy to allow guests a unique opportunity to improve their golf game with state-of-the-art training equipment. Modeled after the flagship academy in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., the new facility features club fitting, fitness, and ...
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Feed SubscriptionTreasure Hunt: One Entrepreneur’s $3 Billion Deep-Sea Quest
Greg Brooks, founder of Sub Sea Research, a small business in Maine, is setting off on a journey to salvage a $3 billion underwater wreck. One Maine entrepreneur is hoping to turn a $5 million investment into a $3 billion payday. Greg Brooks, founder and owner of Sub Sea Research, a Portland, Maine-based business that hunts for treasure, recently came across the biggest find of his career: 1.7 million ounces—62,500 pounds—of platinum aboard a scuttled cargo ship that sank in 1942
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Spencer Antle's Island Company makes swimsuits, resort wear, sunglasses, and sunscreen.
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Four easy-to-master traits from great leaders such as John F. Kennedy, Sam Budnyk, and Gene Kranz. It is often said that hindsight is 20/20.
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Starting a business can be rewarding but it's hardly the road to happiness. Seven reasons why you're still unhappy. Sixty-two percent of Bulgarians say they are “not very” happy or “not at all” happy
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HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. -- With its fast food restaurants, churches and strip malls, this city in southeast Florida looks like much of America. But on a sunny day last month, city official Hector Castro talked about its resemblance to Italy's slowly sinking Venice
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Rule No. 1? Your story is never unique.
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Lisa Price, the founder of Carol's Daughter, spoke about harnessing star-power of celebrities such as Jay-Z and Will Smith to build awareness of her brand. Lisa Price named her company Carol's Daughter after making a list of things she was and the things she wanted to become.
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All across the United States, nay all around the world, the message about higher education is uniform: More people should go to university. President Obama has repeatedly stated on record that "by 2020 America will once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world." The Lumina Foundation is working to increase the proportion of Americans with degrees to 60% by 2025 .
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Pecknold walks us through his latest video, "The Shrine/An Argument," which draws on an animation technique from the 1970s.
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Read More »AmberWatch TV Dials In On Child Abuse, Cyberbullying
The AmberWatch Foundation amps up its fight against child abuse with a new interactive TV channel that will reach 3 million viewers. Call it kismet, coincidence, or something else. Today AmberWatch TV is launching, right on the heels of the Penn State alledged child sexual abuse case
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