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8 Old-School Rules for Gen Y

Younger & older workers have different rules & expectations. Here's what Gen Y should learn from more senior colleagues. This is part of a 2-part series.

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Have Start-ups Stopped Being Fun?

Google & Apple innovate to win--fun has little to do with it. But more whimsy is exactly what young start-ups need. Nick Bilton at The New York Times isn't having any fun.

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How to Feed Your Start-up: 8 Rules

To build a better company culture, start in the kitchen. Here are the 8 delicious ways we fuel our company's growth. At Thumbtack, we make food a priority.

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Out of Sight, Top of Mind

How to keep a business on track when its top performers are scattered across the map. Caldwell, Idaho

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Minding The College Gap

In her sophomore year at Chicago's ACE Technical Charter High School, Kewauna Lerma had a 2.25 GPA. Yet when Jeff Nelson met Kewauna, he knew she was capable of getting into and graduating from a four-year college. Nelson is the cofounder and Executive Director of Urban Students Empowered ( US Empowered ), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to college preparedness and college persistence (keeping students in college once they have enrolled) for low-income high school students.

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Physics sheds light on the role of humidity in ironing

Ironing increases the humidity of a piece of cloth by injecting water vapor in the form of steam. But how does the vapor affect the fabric? Until now, it was thought that its only effect was to soften the fibers

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Renowned Climate Scientist Under Fire for Heartland Expose

By Laird Harrison OAKLAND, California (Reuters) - The prestigious California-based Pacific Institute climate research group has launched an investigation of its president and founder, Peter Gleick, after he admitted fraudulently obtaining documents from global warming skeptics challenging his work. The institute in Oakland revealed its inquiry into the widening controversy in a terse statement posted on Wednesday on its website, hours after the San Francisco Chronicle said it was discontinuing an online blog that Gleick had been writing for the newspaper.

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