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You can't stop really bad things--like Sept. 11th--from happening, but you can be prepared for them. Here are 7 ways.

It’s difficult to come up with a snappy intro to a story like this: Kim Jong-il is dead of a heart attack at age 69. It’s also hard to deny that he was fascinating to watch, somewhat like a train-wreck writ large. But as interesting as Kim himself was as a world leader, it is the society that surrounded him that has always captured my attention

The art of captivating an audience can take years to develop.

It’s football season, which means marching bands, cheerleaders, doing the wave, and crowds going wild when their favorite team scores — and also more than a few bone-crunching collisions between players, a substantial fraction of which will result in injury. One of the most common foot-ball related injuries

I’m often asked the question about why there aren’t more women who are entrepreneurs.

When the topic of urbanization came up at Scientific American several weeks ago, I knew of the perfect short film to feature. [More]

Are the kids all right when mom has a full-time career?

How do you get people to speak more candidly than they might care to? In most cases, some amateur psychology does the trick, says Greg Hartley, a former U.S. Army interrogator and co-author of The Most Dangerous Business Book You'll Ever Read.

We continue our examination of the business book In Search of Excellence with an interview of author Tom Peters. Why was it so successful, what is the book's legacy and what does a restaurant owner in Chicago have in common with Jack Welch? What was the impetus for you to write In Search of Excellence