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A defense contractor decided a man could not do his desk job because he was morbidly obese. The Equal Opportunity Employment Commission says this is against the law. At 600 plus pounds, Ronald Kratz II wasn't having any problem performing his desk job at a defense contractor and had been receiving good evaluations at work.

TJ Farnsworth, founder and CEO of Sightline Health, is adamant about fostering a strong culture of customer service. But that dedication was put to the test when his father-in-law was diagnosed with cancer and became a customer

Do Astronauts Dream of Electric DEXTREs? Potentially evoking creepy memories of external circuit failures from the film 2001, an important circuit breaker aboard the ISS recently popped and had to be replaced. The thing is, it sits in an electronics sled outside the ISS, and would've necessitated an astronaut to perform a spacewalk to fix it--but this time the Canadian-made DEXTRE performed the task entirely by remote control, with mission controllers runnning the operation from Houston while the astronauts aboard the station slept

These 10 Black entrepreneurs from around the country bootstrapped their firms and built fast-growing enterprises, earning them a spot on the Inc. 500.

Whole Foods is encountering a not entirely unforeseen headache during their first Ramadan marketing campaign: Pressure from anti-Muslim bloggers and internal dissent at their company. A pioneering Ramadan marketing campaign at Whole Foods has turned into a headache thanks to a handful of vocal anti-Muslim bloggers. The Houston Press leaked an internal company email claiming “it would be best” if Whole Foods did not observe Ramadan in-store, leading to widespread blowback from angry customers who supported the promotion.

Gene McCubbin, founder of PopLabs, talks about how his Houston interactive agency competes with the salaries oil and gas companies pay.

A Houston woman is suing her former employer, claiming the company fired her for refusing to hide her age. A 52-year-old Houston woman has claimed she was fired from her job over her refusal to dye her gray hair. Sandra Rawline, an escrow officer and branch manager at Capital Title of Texas, went gray in her early 20s

A study finds that companies best positioned to benefit from ambitious goals rarely pursue them. The study: "The Paradox of Stretch Goals: Organizations in Pursuit of the Seemingly Impossible," by Sim B.

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Fourteen company builders talk about their successes, their failures, and the lessons they learned along the way. Two were fired from the companies they formed.

"The orbiter is a completely different vehicle than anything that has ever flown in space." It was a work platform, a spacewalk platform, a construction site with a robotic arm, a laboratory, a people mover. It was a complex vehicle operating at the edge of its performance, with very little margin for error," John Shannon, program manager at the Johnson Space Center in Houston told Air & Space magazine in March.

At a Boston bus station in early 2007, Drew Houston opened his laptop to finish some work while waiting for his bus. As he turned on his computer, he froze. "I could see my USB drive sitting on my desk at home, which meant I couldn't work," the 28-year-old says.

New photos of a smiling Gabrielle Giffords were released and her spokesperson said the Ariz. congresswoman could be leaving the Houston rehab clinic by the end of June

Sprawl isn't just eating up the countryside--it's also blocking the breezes that would otherwise clear out air pollution. That's according to a new study of Houston from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, to be published in the Journal of Geophysical Research

How do you reboot the image of a store synonymous with mildew seediness?