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How Nelson Mandela Helped Get Me Through 26 Christmases In Prison
In 1986, I enjoyed the last holiday season with family before authorities locked me in prison. Never having been incarcerated before, I didn’t know what the holidays would bring. A jury convicted me...
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UNBOXED: Valve's Steam Machine, The Most Powerful Next-Gen Game Console
As if the Wii U, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One weren't enough, there's another major player in the video game industry dipping its toes in the video game console race.Valve, the company responsible for...
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Young Girl Spurns Soccer Star's Handshake Who May Have Fired Back After...
During the pre-match handshakes between Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool, a young girl caused some laughs when she faked-out Liverpool striker Luis Suarez by pulling her hand back from their handshake...
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Motivational App Lift Is Literally Changing My Life
I've fallen in love with an iPhone app called Lift. Its helped me solve a tough problem: how to stay motivated in building new good habits and while ditching old bad habits.I'm actually a pretty...
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The Sheer Magnitude Of The Latest Cowboys Collapse In One Chart
The Dallas Cowboys blew a 23-point halftime lead and lost to the Green Bay Packers 37-36 on Sunday.It's the type of December loss that has become all too familiar in recent years, and it really hurt...
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Ivy League Early Acceptance Numbers For The Class Of 2018 Are Higher Than...
Harvard University had a double digit percentage increase in its early admissions acceptance numbers for the Class of 2018, The Harvard Crimson reports.The Ivy League school "accepted just over 21% of...
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Meaningful Work — Not Money — Makes People Happy
Social scientists think they've discovered a formula for happiness, writes Arthur C. Brooks in the New York Times, and making lots of money is not a part of it.Decades of research have boiled human...
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Nordstrom Found A Brilliant Way To Profit From Showrooming
The practice of showrooming—when people test out products in stores, and then buy them for cheaper online—is traditional retail's worst nightmare. But Nordstrom found a brilliant way to benefit from...
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All-Clear Given At UMass Boston After False Report Of Person With Gun
The University of Massachusetts, Boston issued an alert Monday morning about a possible person with a gun on campus.The McCormack Building was being evacuated. The report came in as a phone tip,...
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A Top New York City Chef Reveals The Best Meal He Ever Ate
Long before Michael Anthony became the executive chef and a partner at Gramercy Tavern and won a prestigious James Beard award for "Best Chef in New York City," Anthony was a 20-year-old business,...
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Ole Miss Basketball Player Marshall Henderson Made A Bizarre Shot Off The...
Marshall Henderson, everybody's favorite college basketball bad boy, made a truly bizarre shot during Ole Miss's win this weekend when his pass deflected off of two Middle Tennessee State University...
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A Social Engagement Primer: A Portrait Of Time-Spend And Activity On The Top...
KEY POINTSAmericans spend an average of 37 minutes daily on social media, a higher time-spend than any other major Internet activity, including email.Sixty percent or so of social media time is spent...
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Here Are All The Crazy Military Robots Google Just Bought
We got big news this weekend when Google bought Boston Dynamics, an engineering company that creates mobile research robots for the military. This is the ninth robotics company that Google has...
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The US Manufacturing Workweek Hasn't Been This Long Since World War II
Manufacturing firms are squeezing the more hours ever out of their employees than at any time since World War II.For Barclays' Cooper Howes, that means more hiring is around the corner for a sector...
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Consumers Are Haggling Major Retailers For Better Prices — And Winning
Nordstrom, Best Buy and other major retailers are giving store managers greater power to negotiate with customers on prices, according to a report in The New York Times. A number of retailers,...
View ArticleMeet Valkyrie: The Superhero She-bot On Her Way To Mars
Click for sound.Please enable Javascript to watch this video The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is hosting its 2013 DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials December 21-23 in Homestead,...
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US Airlines Just Had An Astonishingly Good Quarter
American passenger airlines reported a net profit of $3.2 billion in the third quarter of 2013, a 127% jump over the $1.4 billion they made in the third quarter of 2012.That's according to the latest...
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This One Chart Shows That Advertisers Are Finally Catching Up With The...
For years now, mobile marketers have lamented that advertising budgets do not reflect the increasing amount of time consumers spend looking at their mobile phones and tablets.In 2011, for instance,...
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Wal-Mart Is Selling An Occupy Wall Street Poster
Occupy Wall Street was a movement protesting the greed of big corporations—including Wal-Mart. Now, in an ironic twist, Wal-Mart is selling a poster portraying the protests in New York City.Here's a...
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CHART OF THE DAY: The Cost Of Trading Stocks Has Been Tumbling For Decades
One reason why stock market trading volumes have trended higher is because the cost of trading has come down sharply.Deustche Bank's David Bianco included this chart in his 2014 outlook for the stock...
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