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Video: Prescription drug overdose epidemic

Federal officials say the number of people who have overdosed on prescription drugs is higher than by cocaine or heroine. Jim Axelrod reports on the growing epidemic and how the White House is responding.

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The Growing Menace from Superweeds (preview)

In the second week of November, central Indiana is a patchwork of tawny and black: here a field covered with a stubble of dried corn and soybean plants; a little far

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How We Created This Year’s List

Setting out to identify the most promising industries for starting a business in the coming year, a team of Inc.com reporters and freelancers scoped out data from three private research companies and researched independently (which included all sorts of standard reporting procedures, including but not limited to: phoning reality-show agents, interviewing used-car-salesmen wannabees, and getting a haircut at at the country’s best barbershop). The data we compiled, compared, and contrasted came from Sageworks Inc. , which does past and current financial analysis of privately held companies, AnythingResearch.com , which provides industry market research analysis, reports, and publications, and IBISWorld , which provides detailed past industry growth percentages, revenue forecasts for the next five years, employment growth, profit margin averages, and industry competition ratings

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Will the Car of the Future Be Made from Coal Ash?

NEW YORK -- Could coal be the key to manufacturing lighter, more energy-efficient vehicles, including electric cars? It may seem counterintuitive to use coal to reduce a vehicle's fuel consumption, and thus its CO2 output. But one scientist at a New York technical school thinks he's found a way, and hopes to market it to automakers and the growing electric vehicle industry.

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Flower power: Couple to wed amid blossoms at Macy’s

For Santina Bowers and Moise Naolo, romance bloomed amid — well — actual blooms. When the couple weds Sunday at the Macy’s Flower Show where they first met, they will join the growing ranks of couples getting married in retail settings.

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