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CBS News correspondent Karen Brown talks to Dr.
Read More »Czechs: Nuclear power good despite Japan disaster
* Japan's disaster sparked nuclear rethink worldwide * France also remains staunchly pro-nuclear in Europe By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS, Sept 23 (Reuters) - The catastrophe at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power complex should not be allowed to call into question of the wisdom of atomic energy, Czech President Vaclav Klaus said on Friday. "After the tsunami wave hit the Fukushima power plant, some governments decided not to build new nuclear power plants and some even to abandon nuclear energy as such," Klaus said in a speech to the U.N.
Read More »Success Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be
High-profile entrepreneurs John Vechey and Ted Leonsis get real about what happens after your company is successful. The second half of the morning at Inc. 500|5000 conference, which featured hugely successful PopCap founder John Vechey and serial entrepreneur Ted Leonsis , took a different tone from the energetic coffee-fueled morning sessions
Read More »Do hospital privacy curtains spread deadly germs? What study says
Researchers took 180 samples from 43 curtains, found potentially dangerous bacteria in 119
Read More »Google Tweaks Product Search, Oracle Seeks $1.6B For Java, Spotify No Longer Invite-Only, China’s 40,000-Client Apple Store
This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Apotheker Replaced By Whitman At HP . Late yesterday, HP's board took a controversial decision and ousted its CEO Leo Apotheker after just 11 months in the role
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Read More »Video: Moms shave their heads for cancer charity
The second annual "46 Mommas: Shave for the Brave" event was held at Union Station in Washington D.C. to raise money for childhood cancer research.
Read More »Video: Ask it Early: From organic food to electronic cigarettes
CBS News medical correspondent Dr.
Read More »Bedbugs? Fix may be worse than bugs themselves
Report links bedbugs insecticides to 80 illnesses and one death in three-year span
Read More »Brazil farming revolution may slow Amazon demise
By Reese Ewing REDENCAO, Brazil (Reuters) - Cassio Carvalho do Val is about to invest nearly $2 million to add 10,000 cattle to his ranch on the edge of the Amazon. [More]
Read More »Chronic fatigue syndrome caused by virus? What new study says
Newest study was part of government efforts to see if XMRV virus might affect blood supply safety
Read More »Lunchtime Leniency: Judges’ Rulings Are Harsher When They Are Hungrier
Lawyers quip that justice is
Read More »Asthma inhaler being phased out by FDA: Why?
Asthma patients must switch to environmentally friendly inhaler by Dec. 31, FDA says
Read More »Drug shortages blamed in at least 15 deaths
Hospitals being forced to buy crucial meds from secondary suppliers and pay huge premiums in what many consider a "crisis"
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