CNNMoney.com: With shopping no longer their favorite pastime, Americans appear to be spending their money in other ways, such as acquiring new skills, getting help with their finances and visiting the dentist. This change in spending behavior is helping trade schools, accounting firms and even your neighborhood dentist survive the economic downturn better than other […]
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PRLog.com: Elisa Hope, mother of three, is excited to announce the official launch of Sorrisi Décor, a Kent-based business that offers beautifully-designed tooth fairy pillows with a twist — a portion of the profits will benefit children in need of crisis dental care in western Africa. The idea for the business came unexpectedly when a
TechCrunch: Today brings another amazing stat about YouTube: Every single minute, over 20 hours of video are now uploaded to YouTube. Think about that for a minute. In that minute, nearly a days worth of footage will have been uploaded. And the pace is quickening. Back in 2007, shortly after Google bought the service, it
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DailyComet.com: Beaming smiles, right hands in the air, the women recite together the words that bind them. “Deep down inside, my blood runs pink,” chant the independent beauty consultants from Mary Kay. They’ve come from throughout the area after a week of selling lipstick, face lotion and other products from their cars and homes and
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Popular Science: As the 9/11 inferno unfolded on television, one question kept dogging Kevin Stone: Why weren’t the people trapped in the World Trade Center able to make their way to safety? “I said to myself, This is crazy,” recalls Stone, an orthopedic surgeon and seasoned inventor in San Francisco. “There should be a better
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Lifehacker: Interruptions can really disrupt your workflow. You spend time dismissing or addressing the person doing the interrupting, and then on regaining your focus. I have a friend who doesn’t own an iPod, but wears the ubiquitous white earbuds nearly everywhere he goes, tucked into a pocket. He’s found that people only talk to him
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Chain Leader: Jack in the Box Inc. has refranchised 20 company-owned Jack in the Box(r) restaurants in Southern California as part of the company’s strategic initiative to expand franchising and franchise ownership in the Jack in the Box system to 70 to 80 percent by the end of fiscal year 2013. The restaurants were among
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ContraCostaTimes.com: Sara Ellington may seem like your typical stay-at-home mom: driving carpools, volunteering at her kids’ school, worrying about what to serve for dinner. Except this Mountain Island Lake, N.C., mom has authored two books. The second, which hit bookstores recently, earned a sizable advance and is expected to be Random House’s biggest parenting book
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Wall Street Journal: McDonald’s “Dollar Menu.” Subway’s “$5 Footlong.” Quiznos’s “Million Sub Giveaway.” As the U.S. tries to climb out of the recession, these bargain fast-food meals have become familiar subjects of TV ads and radio jingles — and for many consumers, they are some of the best food values around. But few of the
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