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In the Showtime series United States of Tara , actress Toni Collette plays Tara Gregson, a Kansas mother who has dissociative identity disorder (DID), known formerly as multiple personality disorder.

Tyson Foods, Inc. is recalling ground beef from a Kansas plant after four kids in Ohio became sick from E. coli

Editor Jane Berentson discusses her recent visit to the headquarters of The Kauffman Foundation, which opened its first charter school in August. For years, my colleagues and I have consumed research from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation the way nonfoodies consume fine restaurant meals—appreciative of the product's quality but not especially curious about its source. Kauffman, one of the 30 largest foundations in the United States, fosters entrepreneurship with grants, research, education, and policy recommendations

By Carey Gillam PAOLA, Kansas (Reuters) - Farmer Mark Nelson bends down and yanks a four-foot-tall weed from his northeast Kansas soybean field. The "waterhemp" towers above his beans, sucking up the soil moisture and nutrients his beans need to grow well and reducing the ultimate yield.

It's not just professional chefs who have cool tools these days. Innovation is happening for the home kitchen as well"helping cooks make meals faster, cleaner, and more artfully. Want to taste the great outdoors but only have a tiny terrace?

These 10 Black entrepreneurs from around the country bootstrapped their firms and built fast-growing enterprises, earning them a spot on the Inc. 500.

Sports teams finally find something to agree on. .title {text-transform:uppercase;font-family:arial;font-size:11px;} .caption {color:#666;font-size:11px;margin-bottom:15px;} .caption img {padding-bottom:2px;} Photo by Annie Marie Musselman Sports in America will always be an indulgent birthright. You don't go to the ball game to worry about whether the world will melt

Now that we've sequenced human DNA, we move on to our six-legged friends, whose genes might yield important and lucrative discoveries in many fields. The Human Genome Project was a $3.8 billion undertaking that has so far yielded over $800 billion in economic output.

The Fast Company reader's essential rundown of who's breaking into and shaking up your tech space--updated all day. Celebs Crowdsource With Talenthouse Legendary comic creator Stan Lee is looking for a new superhero; rapper the Game is scouting for a new verse--and anyone with an idea and an Internet connection could have the next big thing. Talenthouse has developed quite a cast of celebrity users scouring user-generated ideas to help break their creative blocks and create new stars in the process

The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day.

How one man built his family's small manufacturing plant into the go-to metalworking studio for the world's premier architectural projects. Two decades ago, the A

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today

Next time you're shopping online , be prepared for a chat. As live chat technology evolves, e-commerce sites are finding that virtual clerks are becoming crucial to customer support and sales systems. Earlier this year, Bold Software, a live chat and click-to-call service based in Wichita, Kansas, polled 200 of their customers—mostly online merchants who use the software to interact with customers browsing their sites—to see just how effective live chats really were