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Send Ants to College

Nothing says summer like ants. They’re at your picnics, on your porch, why there’s one crawling up your leg right now

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The Mille Miglia Comes to America

Some 300 classic sports cars will descend upon the Monterey Peninsula in California for the first annual Mille Miglia North America Tribute. A legend among auto-racing enthusiasts, the original Mille Miglia was a 1,000-mile endurance race held on public roads in Italy for 24 years between 1927 and 1957. When ...

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Video: Shark attack victim on the mend

Chris Wragge talks to Craig and Jordan Mangum, the parents of 6-year-old Lucy Mangum, who was attacked by a shark off the coast of North Carolina's Outer Banks.

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Navigate Blue Oceans To Undiscovered Business Opportunities

How is a blue ocean different from the usual business market? We continue our Leadership Hall of Fame series, a year-long look at the top business books and authors, with an excerpt from Blue Ocean Strategy (2005) by W.

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Edible Arrangements in Legal Hot Water

A franchisee organization claims Edible Arrangements imposed system-wide changes that violated its franchise agreement. A Connecticut judge ruled that a lawsuit against Edible Arrangements, a franchising company that creates fresh fruit arrangements, may proceed in the U.S

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NestWatch

NestWatch aims to provide a unified nest-monitoring scheme to track reproductive success for all North American breeding birds [More]

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Scientists Discover that Antimicrobial Wipes and Soaps May be Making You (and Society) Sick

A few weeks ago as I was walking out of a Harris Teeter grocery store in Raleigh, North Carolina, I saw a man face a moment of crisis. You could see it in the acrobatic contortions of his face. He had pulled a cart out of the area where carts congregate, only to find that its handle was sticky with an unidentifiable substance

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Getting the Best Medicine

Lisa Kornstein shrugged off her husbands and her doctors advice that she slow down. She has since divorced and opened a fourth store. The best medicine Lisa Kornstein shrugged off her husband's and her doctors' advice that she slow down.

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The Rosetta Project Is Preserving Every Language Ever Spoken, On One Nano-Etched Piece Of Metal

A project of the Long Now Foundation, the aim is to make sure we preserve the knowledge contained in dying languages: "If languages are our how-to guides for living on planet Earth, we are handing our descendants an encyclopedia with almost all of the pages ripped out." The Long Now Foundation--currently breaking ground in Texas at the future site of its first monument-sized 10,000-year clock --is pursuing several programs in addition to the clock. One of these, the Rosetta Project, takes as its daunting mission the documentation of every human language currently in use; some 7,000 in total, the majority of which are in danger of disappearing without a trace. Directing this ambitious venture is Laura Welcher, a linguist who has specialized in building archival resources for indigenous North American languages.

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Facebook VP: "We Get Too Much Credit For The Arab Spring"

Facebook VP David Fischer explicitly downplayed the social network's role in Middle Eastern revolutions to an Israeli conference which included a tech industry who's-who. One of Facebook's highest-ranking international executives told a dignitary-packed Israeli conference that the website played a minimal role in the Arab Spring .

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