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  Heart Disease in Ancient Egypt

  By David Bois | Wed Nov 18, 2009 3:05 PM ET

  condition, we may need to rethink our tendency to characterize coronary disease as being uniquely or primarily a contemporary health problem.The Wall Street Journal reports that through the application of cutting-edge imaging technology, archaeologists and Egyptologists have found evidence fo Read More

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  Warren Buffett's Got Style

  By Chaniga Vorasarun | Fri Sep 25, 2009 10:30 AM ET

  "I went 78 years before I got a compliment on my appearance."Now that's what we call a long-term investment. Photo courtesy Ethan Bloch vi Read More

  More like this in: Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Microsoft, Fashion, Business, Life & Style, Retail, Fashion
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  Is Marriage Anti-Feminist? Let Me Ask My Husband.

  By Jac Chebatoris | Sun Sep 6, 2009 11:00 AM ET

  With Marriage," you can pretty much figure out, that, of course, she does get married again. Therein lies the problem, says Charlotte Hays in  Wall Street Journal editorial, suggesting that as a symbol of feminist independence, Gilbert is actually letting her devoted sisterhood down.But i Read More

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  YouTube Mulls Movie Rentals

  By Steve Tanner | Thu Sep 3, 2009 4:26 PM ET

  owned by deep-pocketed Google, but I'm sure they'd like to cash in on its popularity somehow.According to an article (subscription required) in the Wall Street Journal, YouTube is schmoozing with several major movie studios (Lions Gate, Sony, MGM and Time Warner) with hopes of streaming featur Read More

  More like this in: Google, Sony USA, YouTube, Apple Inc., Technology, Entertainment, Movies
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  The Greenest Grass

  By Lisa Jo Rudy | Sat Aug 22, 2009 2:26 PM ET

  refers to the color of money.So it's especially impressive when a company like Scotts decides to go organic with its products. According to the Wall Street Journal, Scotts is experimenting with a lawn-care herbicide based on Canadian thistle fungus. If this all-natural herbicide lives up t Read More

  More like this in: Technology, Organic, Eco-Friendly, Wall Street, Fungus, Business, Science, Good Ideas, Environment, Innovation & Discovery
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  VIBE Comeback!

  By David Jenison | Sat Aug 15, 2009 8:00 AM ET

  was one of the iconic titles that faced the axe during this year of publishing hell, but the popular urban music pub is ready for a coemback. The Wall Street Journal reports that Uptown Media (an arm of InterMedia Partners) purchased the title and its website and plans a swift return to th Read More

  More like this in: Music, Magazines, Entertainment, Movies
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  Microsoft Can Win the Seach Engine Race by Doing "Good"

  By Judy Mottl | Tue Aug 11, 2009 11:23 AM ET

  Ballmer and company should be taking. Of course it's the deal of a lifetime for Yahoo. As CEO Carol Bartz noted in a recent media interview with the Wall Street Journal, it's a win-win for Yahoo across the board. Who wouldn't want to partner with such a tech titan and "get virtually all of ou Read More

  More like this in: Microsoft, Google, Yahoo!, Philanthropy, Random Acts of Kindness, Steve Ballmer, Technology, Social Responsibility, Tech Does Good, Giving
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  Calling on Action

  By Jimmy Langman | Thu Jul 23, 2009 6:43 PM ET

  boys and 9 for girls to 18 for both. Over the past two years, Iran has hung 26 juveniles, the most in the world.An excellent May 29 article in the Wall Street Journal describes a severe crackdown that was already underway in the country against activists, newspapers, magazines and groups workin Read More

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  Barnes & Noble Plans Worthy Contender to Kindle

  By Steve Tanner | Wed Jul 22, 2009 11:00 AM ET

  be working on its own e-book reader -- called Plastic Logic -- which would present the only real challenge to the Kindle to date. A story in today's Wall Street Journal suggests, Barnes & Noble is getting ready to fire a direct hit in Amazon's direction -- however, the world's larges Read More

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  Gendered Generosity

  By Katherine Gustafson | Mon Jul 13, 2009 7:13 PM ET

  that been a good indication of the truth? Polls, on the other hand, come at least a tad closer to telling us how things really are. According to the Wall Street Journal, a new one by Ledbury Research for Barclay's Wealth provides exactly the answer we would have expected. Though I personall Read More

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