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David Horvath and Sun-Min Kim stuck to a positive message, and made Uglydolls into a household name. The story of Pretty Ugly begins with two people who never wanted to work at a toy company. When David Horvath and Sun-Min Kim met at Parsons School of Design in 2001, the pair quickly bonded over their love for design and their hope to create toys with a meaningful message.

At Namast Solar, nothing is more important than the idea of workplace democracy. Why democracy? Blake Jones is a longtime student of inequity.

Work hard, then take a vacation on the company's dimejust one reason why employees love working for Eric Leighton. "We want to be a place of empowerment for employees, customers and partners," says Eric Leighton, founder and CEO, of LoadSpring Solutions. Established with a written list of core values that each employee must know and keep, Leighton says he's dedicated to keeping his company's identity intact while it expands.

The LinkedIn IPO, Mark Pincus and Zynga, elevator pitch obsolescence, and more entrepreneur news. LinkedIn is worth more than Fiji

There is plenty of hoopla over the first major social network IPO.

Good managers know that happy employees are loyal, productive employees. Below are seven areas to improve employee satisfaction. Employee attitudes typically reflect the moral of the company.

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Stewart Prager, a well-known plasma physicist and fusion scientist with a distinguished career and a record of discovery at the University of Wisconsin, arrived in January 2009 as director of PPPL, the United States’ leading magnetic fusion facility. Fusion energy, which is fueled by hot gases of charged particles known as plasma, has the potential to become a safe, clean and abundant energy source for the future. For nearly 60 years, Princeton has been a world leader in research on magnetic fusion energy due to efforts by scientists and engineers at PPPL

Immigrants to the United States may be packing on the pounds, in part, because of a desire to fit in with the citizens of their new country, a new study suggests.

Reinvention, innovation, and cultivation make Houston our City of the Year for 2011. IT'S PAST 11 P.M., AND I'M walking with my husband in downtown Houston. We've just seen a play at the Alley Theatre, and the stroll to our car, which I'd left at my office, gives us time to dissect the show and enjoy the city at night

By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some U.S. nuclear plants are not in full compliance with rules set up after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States to respond to explosions and fires, a self-regulatory body for the nuclear industry has found. [More]

Does a new website from the world's largest coal company gives away Justin Bieber-themed inhalers to combat asthma from coal? Today, Peabody Energy --the largest private coal company in the world--launched Coal Cares , a website giving away free, Justin Bieber-themed inhalers to asthmatic children and providing other, pro-coal info to kids everywhere. Yes, coal gives people asthma, but it's still the "safest energy out there." There are word searches, a Kidz Koal Korner , and a promise that "for every 1,000 inhaler actuators donated via Coal Cares™, Peabody will make a $500 donation towards the cost of one lung-replacement therapy." It's also totally fake.

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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of physicists from the United States and Russia announced today that it has developed a means for computing, with unprecedented accuracy, a tiny, temperature-dependent source of error in atomic clocks.

Two prominent advisers to the Joint Chiefs of Staff think adopting social and environmental change is the best path to maintaining America's global hegemony.