Empty Elevator Shaft In Sochi Nearly Swallows Athlete
British bobsledder Rebekah Wilson was greeted with an empty elevator shaft when she attempted to leave her room in the Olympic Village on Saturday morning.She later said she hit the down button, the...
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Why This Millennial Quit His 6-Figure Job And Gave Away Most Of His Possessions
Joshua Fields Millburn, who at age 27 became the youngest director of operations at a large telecom company in the Midwest, had been asked to craft a plan to close eight retail stories and terminate 41...
View ArticleThe US Bobsled Team Is Getting Some Help From The Germans
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The Brutality Of Cross Country Skiing In One Surreal Photo
Here's the finish line after Saturday's women's cross-country skiing event, the skiathlon 7.5 km classic + 7.5 km free.The three medalists, Norway's Marit Bjoergen, Sweden's Charlotte Kalla, and...
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'Flappy Bird' Creator Says He's Shutting The Game Down, Putting Us All Out Of...
Suddenly popular, super hard, super addictive smartphone game Flappy Bird is going away.Game creator Dong Nguyen tweeted this at 2 p.m. ET: "I am sorry 'Flappy Bird' users, 22 hours from now, I will...
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Huge Law Firm Parts Ways With Lawyer Accused Of Making His Ex-Girlfriend's...
The big corporate law firm Schulte Roth & Zabel no longer employs an associate named Samir Tabar, who's accused in a lawsuit of relentlessly harassing and terrorizing his ex-girlfriend, the...
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Here's How Boeing Builds The New Fuel-Efficient 737 Jet
This week, Boeing officially cranked the production rate of its 737 Next Generation plane to 42 per month, an all-time high.That's a 33% jump over 2010, when Boeing was producing 31.5 a month at its...
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Here's A Full List Of Medal Winners At The Sochi Olympics
The first day of medal events at the 2014 Sochi Olympics is in the books.Norway, which is expected to win the most golds in Sochi, leads the medal count with two golds and two bronzes.We'll keep this...
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The 24 Hottest Athletes At The Sochi Olympics
The Olympics officially kicked off on Friday night and the games are finally underway.The competition this year is hotter than ever. Literally.From skiing to ice hockey to biathlon, we rounded up the...
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Everything You Need To Know About The Return Of '24' To Fox
Fox quietly dropped a series of brief mysterious commercials throughout the Super Bowl Sunday night. The four ads culminated in a first-look preview at the return of “24” to the network. Earlier this...
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Two Stanford Professors Have A Fascinating Theory Of Why Businesses Succeed
In September 2012, Home Depot was in trouble.The construction and home improvement giant had just announced it would shutter seven big-box outlets in China — the last of the 12 stores it had acquired...
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Walter White's Parody Facebook Video Will Bring Back 'Breaking Bad' Memories
You probably noticed your friends posts and watched your own Facebook "Look Back"video earlier this week, which highlighted big moments, photos, and posts from users on the social network's 10-year...
View ArticleThe 16 Most Powerful Members Of 'Skull And Bones'
In 1832, five Yale students — including future President William Howard Taft's father — founded one of America's most famous secret societies: Skull and Bones.Join the conversation about this story »
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Edward Snowden Automated His NSA File Download With A Tool Similar To...
Fugitive ex-contractor Edward Snowden took at least 200,000 top-secret documents from NSA servers using a process that was "quite automated," according to a new report from David Sanger and Eric...
View ArticleIn A Record Year For Exonerations, This Bar Owner Has One Of The Most...
A report out Tuesday on America's record-high number of exonerations in 2013 includes a disturbing story of a bar owner who spent three years in prison for a "crime" that never happened.Join the...
View ArticleAOL CAVES: Tim Armstrong Restores The 401K Plans For Employees (AOL)
AOL is restoring its policy of offering matching 401ks to employees without any catches or wrinkles: Tim Armstrong has announced he's reversing AOL's 401k policy. Credit to a CEO who responds to the...
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Very Few American Workers Actually Make The Minimum Wage
Economists at BofA Merrill Lynch say one of the questions clients have been asking recently is whether proposals to raise the minimum wage in the United States — like the one highlighted by President...
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The Connected TV Landscape: Why Smart TVs And Streaming Gadgets Are...
Connected TVs are on pace to take over the television viewing experience. There will be more than 759 million televisions connected to the Internet worldwide by 2018, more than double 2013's number,...
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An Investor Reveals How To Land Your Startup's First Round Of Funding
Steve Schlafman has been a member of the New York City tech community for years, as both an entrepreneur and an investor. He created StickyBits which turned into fleeting viral sensation, Turntable.fm....
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Insane GoPro Video Of The Olympic Downhill Skiing Course That Bode Miller...
Graham Bell, a former Olympic skier who now works for the BBC, went down the Olympic downhill skiing course in Sochi and took a crazy first-person video.The downhill course is intense this year.On...
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