BusinessWeek: Water is precious in Jordan, where shortages have prompted decades of rationing and exacerbated tensions with Israel. Nader Atmeh and his sons, Hassan and Moutaz, want to do their part by eliminating the traditional car wash in the Middle East. They say their waterless washing business, Keenwash, is saving Jordan hundreds of thousands of […]
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1751 – The first cricket match is played in America. 1759 – Josiah Wedgwood founds the Wedgwood pottery company in Great Britain. 1840 – The Penny Black, the first official adhesive postage stamp, is issued in the United Kingdom. 1884 – Proclamation of the demand for eight-hour workday in the United States. 1885 – The
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Accidents, injuries and illnesses occur all the while, so much so that we all know at least one person from our extended families who’s battling serious health troubles. Health insurance has slowly progressed into a necessary purchase rather than an optional one. The health insurance market has seen a lot of progress over the past
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NPR: Zach Houston runs his Poem Store (on any given sidewalk) with these items: a manual typewriter, a wooden folding chair, scraps of paper, and a white poster board that reads: “POEMS — Your Topic, Your Price.” Houston usually gets from $2 to $20 for a poem, he says. He’s received a $100 bill more
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Way before Disneyland, an ostrich farm in Pasadena was a huge tourist attraction. Edwin Cawston courted the early-20th-century public’s fascination with exotic foreign creatures when he began raising ostriches, for more than the use of their feathers in the clothing industry. When Cawston brought the enormous, flightless, African birds onto prime real estate in the
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Miami New Times: Indian River County’s Ian Sidles, age 25, and Dustin Boring, 30, incorporated Pre-Paid Auto Club in August. The company provides “speeding insurance.” Pay dues starting at $9.99 a month, and when you receive a moving violation, the club takes care of associated fines, traffic school costs, and legal fees. It’s like the
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If you think farmers only grow things like apples, and oranges and peaches, you have no idea. Tablet Magazine (A New Read on Jewish Life) has up an interesting article about a farmer in California central valley — not far from me — who grows etrogs. An etrog is a yellow citron used by Jews
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Five years ago, the Japanese government deregulated ear cleaning, removing the requirement that the cleaner have a medical license. Since then a new type of business sprung up in Tokyo and other big cities: ear-cleaning parlors: The basic service at Yamamoto Mimikaki-ten lasts 30 minutes and costs ¥2,700 (about US$32). The customer is first introduced
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Kenyan Daily Nation: Childhood best friends Wachira Mwangi and Samuel Mbugua are teaching farmers a technique that may sound like the stuff of science fiction — growing crops without the use of soil and making a tidy sum out of it. After a series of boring jobs and failed businesses the 26-year old University of
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With no long-term plans and only a survivor’s instinct, Willis Johnson built multibillion-dollar auto auction company, Copart, from one modest junkyard. In his new book, Junk to Gold, Willis Johnson shares his story of success and how faith, family and hard work helped him live his dream. Johnson talks about his business, Copart, and how
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