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The iconic Philly cheesesteak—thin slices of beef piled onto an Italian bun and topped with grilled onions and Cheez Whiz (sorry Provolone proponents, it ain't a Philly cheesesteak to me without the neon Whiz)—was invented in 1930 when Pat and Harry Olivieri improvised with some leftovers to make a sandwich to sell at their South Philadelphia Italian market stand when they ran out of hot dogs. The happy accident is one of my favorite guilty pleasures, a must-have whenever I'm anywhere near Philly

Humans have played a role in large animal extinctions since time immemorial. The giant ground sloth of Texas

Get ready for the newest way to grab some wheels when you need them. The service, launching in November in San Diego, is gunning for Zipcar by making it easier to pay for and drop off your borrowed car. Zipcar has long dominated the city car-sharing space.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--A high-school student from Fort Worth, Texas, won top honors July 11 at the first annual Google Science Fair for her project on drug resistance in ovarian cancer. Shree Bose, 17, investigated the connection between an enzyme called AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) and resistance to the chemotherapy drug cisplatin.

A 16-pound baby born in Longview, Texas holds the new hospital record. JaMichael Brown is more than twice the weight of the average baby--which is about seven pounds. KYTX-TV's Monique Bird has more

A Houston woman is suing her former employer, claiming the company fired her for refusing to hide her age. A 52-year-old Houston woman has claimed she was fired from her job over her refusal to dye her gray hair. Sandra Rawline, an escrow officer and branch manager at Capital Title of Texas, went gray in her early 20s

UCLA's Brianna Do won the Women's U.S. Amateur Public Links on Saturday, rallying to beat Texas high school star Marissa Dodd 1-up in the 36-hole final on Bandon Dunes' Old Macdonald course.

In an industry littered with excess packaging, it sounds like an impossible goal. And the Texas startup isn't just targeting waste, it's also going after food deserts, too. In an industry littered with excess packaging, it sounds like an impossible goal: in.gredients , a startup out of Austin, Texas, wants to create the first zero-waste, packaging-free grocery store in the U.S.

Whoops. Diet soda might have no calories, but that doesn't keep it from growing your waistline. A new study finds that diet drinkers might be even worse off than regular soda drinkers.

The worst of the economic plummet appears to be over. Use this upswing to your advantage with these tips on getting the money your business needs. It would be an understatement to say small business lending has taken a significant blow over the past few years.

A project of the Long Now Foundation, the aim is to make sure we preserve the knowledge contained in dying languages: "If languages are our how-to guides for living on planet Earth, we are handing our descendants an encyclopedia with almost all of the pages ripped out." The Long Now Foundation--currently breaking ground in Texas at the future site of its first monument-sized 10,000-year clock --is pursuing several programs in addition to the clock. One of these, the Rosetta Project, takes as its daunting mission the documentation of every human language currently in use; some 7,000 in total, the majority of which are in danger of disappearing without a trace. Directing this ambitious venture is Laura Welcher, a linguist who has specialized in building archival resources for indigenous North American languages.

Photograph by Matt Nager Creative marketers are launching new efforts to reach the Latin American community. Ruby Anik is responsible for managing the JCPenney brand and all of its consumer marketing campaigns, including multicultural outreach

Photograph by Matt Nager Creative marketers are launching new efforts to reach the Latin American community.

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Tech-savvy Texans will be some of the first in the U.S.