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Aspen Food & Wine Fest: Day 2

Is a boozy breakfast good for a conference? Plus, how a TV celebrity chef wins stomachs in real life. Wine at 10 a.m.

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7 Steps to a Culture of Innovation

Hyper-growth companies often credit a culture of innovation as their primary driver of success. They deploy creative thinking to attack problems big and small

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Rock wins Italian Open for 1st victory

Robert Rock completed a wire-to-wire victory in the Italian Open on Sunday to earn his first European Tour title, shooting a 5-under 67 fend off a charge by Thorbjorn Olesen.

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5 Innovative Language-Learning Tools

If you work with or are expanding to foreign markets, it's important for your employees to have access to language education. We've found five engagingand freethat can start your company down the path to fluency. Yes, there's an app for that.

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Invest In China To Make Money On Renewables: Report

A new survey determines that China is the most attractive country for renewable energy installations based on the size of its national renewable energy markets, renewable energy infrastructures, and suitability for individual technologies. In a resource-constrained world, any country with the ability to build out a clean energy infrastructure is going to have an advantage. While we'd like to think that American ingenuity and elbow grease would put us in a good position, it increasingly appears that China--land of coal-fired power plants and endless smog--is at the forefront

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Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este: The Glamour, the Sport, the Unexpected

For those who believe that an automotive gathering cannot possibly be more exclusive, breathtaking, or debonair than the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, we submit—for your consideration—the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este. Amid the lush landscape along the shores of northern Italy’s Lake Como, this annual event serves as a beauty contest ...

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The Story Behind The Story Of Cars 2

How Pixar's John Lasseter dug into the cutting-room-floor scrap heap of the first Cars movie to come up with the idea for the new film. Creative people know that no idea that gets cut from a project ever goes in the trash can

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Extinction Likely for World’s Rarest Bear Subspecies

The May 3 death of a Marsican brown bear ( Ursus arctos marsicanus ) has put the world's rarest bear subspecies one step closer to extinction. Just 50 or so of the animals remain in two of Italy's national parks, a population so small that the bears are "below the threshold of survival," Giuseppe Rossi, head of the National Park of Abruzzo, Lazio, and Molise, told The Christian Science Monitor

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Minnesota researcher’s findings on dark matter jibe with Italy’s DAMA/LIBRA claims

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sparking controversy in the small circle of physicists working to resolve the issue of whether dark matter actually exists, Juan Collar, spokesman for the CoGeNT project in the Soudan mine in Minnesota, spoke recently at the American Physical Society meeting and disclosed that his team has found results similar to those experienced by the DAMA/LIBRA team in Italy over the past several years, which show an excess of low energy interactions in their germanium crystal detectors, that his group can’t explain any other way but to ascribe it to the existence of dark matter.

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State Department Is Trying To Make A Thousand Ushahidis Bloom

Foggy Bottom has a plan to jump-start a venture-capital approach to the field of humanitarian tech. When the earthquake decimated Haiti last year, technologists around the world converged online to develop tools to help rescuers find victims and raise funds .

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Wanted: The Lavish Lego Clutch

Handmade in Italy and about $1,000 bucks each, these bags are not toys. Which makes them all the more fun to play with. Italian designer Mariasole Cecchi designed these peculiar objets one bored evening in Paris, using just a box of Legos, an old bag and some glue.

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New data from XENON100 narrows the possible range for dark matter

An International team of scientists in the XENON collaboration, including several from the Weizmann Institute, announced on Thursday the results of their search for the elusive component of our universe known as dark matter. This search was conducted with greater sensitivity than ever before.

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