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Some startup ideas are long overdue. Found in Town is one of them

Calif. 8-year-old Precious Reynolds is one of just three Americans who has ever survived illness

Eight-year-old Precious Reynolds of Willow Creek, Calif. is put into medically induced coma to fight disease

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"Gold has lost its prestige," says Rico Franses, an art history professor at the American University of Beirut. That's an interesting opinion when gold is at record-breaking prices -- it jumped 28% in 2010 to $1,400 an ounce -- but Franses, keynote speaker at this Boston art symposium, insists that our modern dollar fixation has actually devalued the precious metal.