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By Marian Turner of Nature magazine Munich Confronted with what has become one of the world's most severe outbreaks of Escherichia coli, physicians and scientists in Germany say that the country's fractured health-management system has failed to handle the crisis properly.

My first entrepreneurial venture was Your Career Is An Extreme Sport, a career-advice book I wrote in 2007. In addition to reporting and writing the book, I was pretty much solely responsible for promotion, marketing and sales. (The publisher handled distribution.) I did just about everything wrong that time around.

A new program from HP is equipping African health workers with cell phones so that information about outbreaks can be collected and analyzed as fast as possible.

Just how bad is that smog in China? It's not surprising to learn that the local environment isn't doing so well in China, a country famous for its smog. But it is disheartening to find out just how bad it is, courtesy of the "State of the Environment in China," an annual report put out by the Chinese government

What items can't you live without on the road? Inc. asked readers what technology and comforts they can't live without when crossing the country for business travel.

Infestations are up across the country; Find out why the tiny biters' worst enemy is Man's Best Friend!

A new video is changing patients' minds about what kind of treatment they want at the end of life. Dr.

Emboldened by the Arab Spring and social media, Syrian protesters are taking to the streets over smuggled YouTube videos that appear to show a 13-year-old boy who was physically and sexually tortured while in government custody. A graphic video of the corpse of a 13-year-old boy who appears to have been sexually and physically tortured by Syrian security officials has sparked international condemnation and riots across the country. The video (see still pic above) shows Hamza Ali al-Khatib, a resident of the southern village of Jiza, and appears to have been filmed by his family after they retrieved his corpse.

According to the most recent SurePayroll Small Business Scorecard, hiring remains flat and paychecks are virtually flat in May over the previous month. But small business optimism skyrocketed. Given that we didn’t see an increase in small business hiring or pay, it’s a little surprising that three out of four small business owners indicate they are optimistic about the economy – an enormous increase over last month when only half indicated being optimistic.

By Nina Chestney and Jackie Cowhig LONDON (Reuters) - Germany's plan to shut all its nuclear power plants by 2022 will add up to 40 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually as the country turns to fossil fuels, analysts said on Tuesday. [More]

Gone are the days when .com and .net were your only options when registering a URL for your business. Here are some tips for developing a domain extension strategy

An ambitious effort to digitize 300 years of Serbian military records has led to the indictment of more than a dozen war criminals and the discovery of unmarked mass graves.

You might want to start. At only 23 years old, Eric Kuhn has trail-blazed many media empires into the social space--now he's eyeing nothing less than the future of entertainment. Eric Kuhn isn't old enough to rent a car, but as the former head of social media for CNN, and the digital architect of @KatieCouric's viral interview with Sara Palin , he's already experienced many watershed moments for social media

The days of folders and filing are in the past. Heres why and how to simplify your business life by organizing it in the cloud, using Google products and more. When Michael Salvatore joined Bowery Lane Bicycles as chief officer of nearly everything, he set out to streamline their processes.

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