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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 ...
Read More »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.
Read More »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.
Read More »Why Airbnb May Be Worth A $112M Investment
The site that lets you crash in a stranger’s house closed a huge round of funding today.
Read More »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
Read More »"How I Grew My Company Without Selling" Presented by Inc. 5000 CEOs
When most entrepreneurs think of growing the revenues of their businesses, they think of ways to increase sales. That's not the case with Rick Haig of Haig Service Corp
Read More »NestWatch
NestWatch aims to provide a unified nest-monitoring scheme to track reproductive success for all North American breeding birds [More]
Read More »Should We Be More Scared Of Climate Change?
The reality of climate change is serious enough that it doesn't need to be exaggerated in order to be taken seriously.
Read More »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
Read More »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.
Read More »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.
Read More »How Lessons From Toyota’s Production Line Will Help Efficiently Rebuild New Orleans
Toyota plans to teach its well-honed assembly line techniques to community organizations like the St.
Read More »Storm Warnings: Extreme Weather Is a Product of Climate Change
In North Dakota the waters kept rising.
Read More »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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