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Cesare Attolini Takes Manhattan

Renowned men’s tailored clothing company Cesare Attolini of Naples has opened its first store outside of Italy, on Madison Avenue at the corner of 67th Street in New York. Within the 2,500-square-foot space, clients can meet with the store’s tailor to select from nearly 1,000 swatches of fine English, Italian, ...

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Designers of Exotic Materials Learn New Tricks from Animals (preview)

Among the first things you notice when you step into the corner office of Harvard University professor Joanna Aizenberg are the playthings. Behind her desk sit a sand dollar, an azure butterfly mounted in a box, a plastic stand with long fibers that erupt in color when a switch is pulled, and haphazard rows of toys. Especially numerous are the Rubik’s cubes--the classic three-by-three, of course, but also ones with four, five, six and even seven mini cubes along each edge.

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Generation Flux: Baratunde Thurston

A look at Baratunde Thurston, the Director of Digital at The Onion, a Harvard philosophy major turned consultant turned standup comedian and author of How to Be Black. Flux to the core.

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Swap Jobs With Your Receptionist

So, do yourself, and your business, a favor: Abandon the corner office and slip into the shoes of your receptionist for a day. It's my belief that you can't truly understand your business unless you've experienced it from the ground up. While you may pore over profit-and-loss statements, immerse yourself in the interview process, and personally lead the sales and marketing efforts, you haven't done a damn thing if you haven't worked at your reception desk for a full day.

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Our Galaxy’s "Big Ears": Milky Way’s Large Companion Galaxies Stand Out

Our Milky Way is just one of many billions of galaxies that dot the cosmos--an ordinary spiral in a universe filled with them. The unspecialness of our corner of space, an idea known as the Copernican principle, is a cornerstone of modern cosmology.

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People With Sweet Tooths May Be Sweeter

With Halloween around the corner, parents are fretting over what all that candy will do to their little goblins. Well, it might just make them sweeter

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Eternal Vigilance Fingers The Flu

Flu season is just around the corner in the northern hemisphere. But for birds and pigs, it's flu season year round.

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Goal Obsession: The Flaw That Creates More Flaws

Can being ambitious derail your career? It can when it leads to a multitude of bad habits. We continue our Leadership Hall of Fame series, a year-long look at the top business books and authors, with an excerpt from What Got You Here, Won't Get You There (2007) by Marshall Goldsmith, with Mark Reiter.

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Five Features Apple Should Steal From HP’s TouchPad, WebOS

I've been playing with HP's new TouchPad for a week, but it only took a few minutes to notice the tablet's similarities to the iPad. I'm not just talking about the TouchPad's WebOS--all players in the tablet space have undoubtedly taken cues from Apple's software (see: apps, gestures, etc.). But even HP's hardware design is iPad-like, from the placement of the (single) home button to the webcam to the auto-lock key to the volume seesaw switch.

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Video: Tired workers pose growing dangers

CBS News correspondent Armen Keteyian reports on the problems caused by lack of sleep. Then, Erica Hill talks to Dr. Jennifer Ashton and Adam Bryant, author of "The Corner Office," about the conflicts between healthy sleep and a successful career.

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