Lifelock, the company that brazenly broadcast its chief executive’s Social Security number as part of its claim that it could protect anyone against identity theft, […]
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A Water Fight Over Luxury Showers Gene Goforth sells showerheads—big ones, like the Raindance Imperial 600 AIR. Selling for as much as $5,457, it has […]
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CHICAGO – Oprah Winfrey has blessed the book world’s eternal underdog: the short story. Publishing’s surest hitmaker announced Friday that her latest pick was Uwem […]
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Retire Ronald McDonald? No way. That’s the message McDonald’s Corp.’s CEO Jim Skinner gave Thursday to the red-haired clown’s critics who say the cartoon promotes […]
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The eruption of a volcano beneath Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull has resulted in dangerous amounts of volcanic ash in the sky, huge headaches for travelers, and, it […]
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Were it not for the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, there might be no Google. Thirty years ago today, Sergey Brin, a 6-year-old Soviet boy facing […]
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