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Social workers took 200-pound eight year old from his family, citing medical neglect

"It was devastating," says multi-hyphenate performer-musician-artist Aleksa Palladino about the too-short life of one of Boardwalk Empire's nuanced characters.

Christa Pitts left her job at QVC to help her mother and sister create a book and toy that have become a holiday tradition. In 2005, Christa Pitts left her job as a QVC host to help her mother, Carol Aebersold, and twin sister, Chanda Bell, launch Elf on the Shelf. The Marietta, Georgia-based company makes books and toys based on the family's Christmas tradition, which includes a toy elf who monitors naughty and nice behavior for Santa

For most executives, sizing up the competition means reading white papers or paying researchers to conduct market analyses.

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Scientific papers tend to be loaded with statistics and jargon, so it is always a delightful surprise to stumble on a nugget of poetry in an otherwise technical report. So it was with a 2005 paper in the journal Development and Psychopathology , drily entitled “Biological Sensitivity to Context,” which looked at kids’ susceptibility to their family environment. The authors of the research paper, human development specialists Bruce J.

Justin Bieber's singer-actress girlfriend became a celebrity investor by putting her stamp of approval on a postcard start-up. There's another celebrity investor on the block: actress-singer Selena Gomez. The 19-year-old joins a handful of former MySpace executives, among others, in a $750,000 angel-investment round for Postcard on the Run.

Don't be like your teenager.

In the house where Vincenzo Ulturale grew up in Naples, Italy, his parents converted the family living room into a makeshift workshop where they sewed neckwear and taught their son to do the same.

Sony's CEO, Howard Stringer, has said his company is going to reinvent the television. It's a dangerous game--and one being played by tech's top firms.

The patient had endured 20 years of pain: her calves had turned into two bricks,

After all the trouble of taking your company public, you deserve to treat yourself to the best things life has to offer. Weve put together a wish list for that special day.

Learning the Ansoff Matrix, which shows four ways that businesses can grow and the risks associated with each option, can help you grow your niche.

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