Andrew Yang, through Venture for America, wants to send an army of new college grads out to start-ups in cities nationwide and help resuscitate their faltering economies. Andrew Yang believes entrepreneurs can help save cities, especially those whose economies have been ravaged by the recession. Yang gave up a law career almost immediately after he started, realizing the mega-firm life was "a less than ideal use of a lot of smart people's time." He founded Stargiving.com, a celebrity affiliated philanthropic fundraising site in 2000, right at the end of the dot.com bubble
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Frog legs are still an amazingly popular food item around the world, including here in the U.S. According to a new report, an average of 2,280 metric tons of frog legs are imported into this country each year--that's the equivalent of somewhere between 450 million and 1.1 billion frogs.
Read More »A Money-Saving Shipping Strategy
Getting your merchandise from point A to point B can be costly. Follow these tips, and you'll save smart on your shipping strategy. Let’s face it : shipping is a tough beast to tackle
Read More »Why Japan Is Drilling Offshore For "Burning Ice"
The newest form of natural gas might be the most potent yet. But while Japan is using it to replace nuclear power, mining it could just cause more disasters.
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Growing concern over the debt ceiling, America's broken job engine, Wall Street's thoughts on Netflix, and more. The effect of lowering America's credit rating. Economists weigh in on the turbulence that would arise from lowering the federal government's rating from AAA to AA, noting it could create a "further blow to the already fragile national economic confidence," reports The New York Times.
Read More »Infographic: How China’s Clean Tech Industry Crushes The U.S.
China may be the world's biggest polluter, but they're also investing heavily in clean and renewable energy solutions--and far surpassing the U.S.'s puny attempts in the process.
Read More »Gary Hoover: Business Around the World
Gary Hoover is an entrepreneur, writer, speaker and educator. He is the founder of BOOKSTOP and Hoovers, Inc. This is part two of my article series with Gary
Read More »7 Tips for a Social Entrepreneur
Looking to start a benefit corporation, a nonprofit, or a for-profit company with a social purpose? Those whove done it say social entrepreneurism takes grit, resolve, and imagination. Fred Keller, founder and CEO of West Michigan plastics manufacturer Cascade Engineering, keeps a card in his pocket with a set of reminders from John Wesley, 18th century Methodist theologian, on conducting a good life
Read More »O’Hair wins Canadian Open on 1st playoff hole
Sean O'Hair won the RBC Canadian Open after tapping in for bogey on the first playoff hole on Sunday, and then watching fellow American Kris Blanks lip out his bogey putt from just over 5 feet.
Read More »Daly has shot at first PGA win in 7 years
Over the last few years of a tumultuous career John Daly has been spotted in the tabloids, addiction centers and the PGA Tour's doghouse but Saturday at the Canadian Open you could find him somewhere he had not been for a while -- in contention.
Read More »Pettersen shocked by attacks
PGT: Norway's Suzann Pettersen wore a black armband at the Evian Masters on Saturday in memory of the victims of the twin attacks that have devastated her country.
Read More »Thompson, Campbell tied for Canadian Open lead
On a day when the course conditions favored experienced players with major championship success, PGA Tour rookie Michael Thompson had to learn on the fly.
Read More »Blanks shoots 67 to take lead at Canadian Open
Kris Blanks has been to Vancouver before, usually just to visit his wife's family, and never with his golf clubs.
Read More »The Next Generation Of Turbines Go Underwater, And They’re Coming Soon
As the U.S. slowly abandons its dams, more and more pilot programs pop up for deriving power from tides and river currents.
Read More »The Bilingual Advantage: Second Language Increases Cognitive Ability (preview)
Many parents would like their children to master a second language, but few kids in this country do. Only 9 percent of adults in the U.S.
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