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Why It Pays to Be Green

A new report suggests that sustainable business practices are not only good for the environment, but improve employee relations, as well. Going green is good for the environment, but how does it affect your business?

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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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Ancestry.com Leads The Race To Digitize Your Family Roots

GENEALOGISTS call it an "aha" moment: You unearth a meaningful family detail -- your great-grandma taught kindergarten and raised beagles or your great-great-great-grandpappy was the youngest of 12 brothers and sisters -- and you're hooked.

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Loss of TV Friends Can Cause Distress

“Believe it or not, George isn’t at home, please leave a message at the beep.” So what happens when you can’t get George? Some viewers have a tough time.

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Manuka Honey Slips Up Some Bacteria

Honey’s been a medicine since before medicine as we know it even existed. Its use was described on Sumerian clay tablets from nearly four thousand years ago.

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Public Relations Firms

While annual revenue for public relations firms flat-lined from 2008 through this year, IBISWorld foresees a nearly 6 percent annual growth for the industry over the next five years. And while employment in the field has actually dropped in recent years, it's staged for a 3 percent increase every year through 2016. Gary McCormick, chair of the board of directors of the Public Relations Society of America, says the industry's recent stagnancy was due to other companies that use PR firms or independent contractors cutting back on advertising, marketing, and PR expenses.

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Best Industries for Starting a Business, 2011

Hot start-ups in the coming year will likely be thinking outside of Silicon Valley. It's not that technology and software are on their ways out; rather, a softly stabilizing economy has heightened consumer confidence and opened up growth in areas such as brick-and-mortar retail, boutique consulting firms, and education companies, industry data from three private research firms show

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How to excavate a human burial: Lessons from a dinosaur expert

SACRAMENTO--It is one of the most poignant scenes ever captured in the human fossil record--a woman and two children buried together some 5,300 years ago on a bed of flowers, holding hands. They lived by the shores of a shallow freshwater lake in what is now Niger, at a time when the Sahara was green

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Blissfully Unaware: Why Children Often Act Before They Think

If two men began a boisterous tug-of-war over the wine list at a posh restaurant, more than a few heads would turn. Yet two six-year-old kids quarreling over a pack of crayons at a diner would hardly seem unusual. It is normal for kindergartners to act out and for grown-ups to show restraint

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Leadership Hall of Fame: Richard Florida, Author of "The Rise of the Creative Class"

We continue our examination of the business book The Rise of the Creative Class with an interview of author Richard Florida. How did the book come about and where is the creative class congregating today? What was the impetus for you to write The Rise of the Creative Class?

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