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The soft drink giant teams up with a top production studio to create an immersive experience so vivid you can practically taste it. Cascada means waterfall. But there's not a drop of H2O falling on visitors to the Cascada exhibit in Quito, Ecuador.

Seven million people in 115 countries are participating in Global Entrepreneurship Week competitions, awards, and other idea-generating activities as you read this. In honor of the third annual Global Entrepreneurship Week, BizBuySell, an online marketplace of businesses for sale, tells the entrepreneurship story from Canada to Colombia with statistics and other fun facts. BizBuySell, a marketplace of businesses for sale, offers about 45,000 U.S.

Thursday, November 3 One-fifth of young Americans donate time to a cause. | Photo by Patrick T. Fallon/Zuma Press At any given moment , young volunteers across the globe are building schools and feeding the hungry--efforts that will be celebrated at this Barranquilla, Colombia, gathering

Traditionally, gold mining has been a messy, toxic business that leaves scars on the earth and mercury in the atmosphere. But the practice may get a bit cleaner with the growing Fairtrade gold certification, announced last year. successThe new standard , labeled as Fairtrade and Fairmined, sets social, environmenta,l and economic criteria to eliminate child labor, minimize or halt the use of toxic mercury and cyanide, and avoid the havoc mining usually visits upon the environment

Combining principles of conservation with the needs of agriculture might be the only way to keep growing enough food to feed an exploding global population.

The menu of hot-chocolate selections changes hourly and ranges widely at the Chocolate Bar (www.jphevin.com), which Parisian chocolatier Jean-Paul H

In the latest installment of the Butterfly Effect, we look at what might happen if interest in soccer continues to grow: TV deals, a World Cup victory, and the American Dirk Nowitzki. 1. The Rise Of The Other Football U.S.

Internet users--Facebookers most of all--are a trusting bunch. Why?

Over the past decade, George Constantinou and Farid Ali have become partners in lifeand partners running a $3 million-a-year Latin restaurant.

If we run out of phosphate fertilizer, it will mean bad things for our future eating. But giving our crops a fungus can help us stretch our supply. The human race has a food problem

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A recent study published in Environmental Science & Technology shows the linkage between the illegal production of coca and the continuing destruction of Colombia's rainforest. New plots of coca between 2002 and 2007 accounted for the direct destruction of 890 square kilometers of rainforest. That's roughly 6 percent of total rainforest lost in that period, which totaled to 14,000 square kilometers, or an area slightly larger than Jamaica.

Erika Anderson has something of a Silicon Valley pedigree. She graduated from MIT and Cornell Law School before bringing her socially conscious business plan to the Bay Area's Singularity University

The founder and CEO of the National Cash Register Co. was known to be a stern control freak.