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Thank you for your patience. The Green Comment Contest is going on, and I will now extend it through 8PM Thursday, December 10th, 2009.
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Surrounded by shelves stocked with 180 different wooden train cars, Sandy Oliver boxes orders at Whittle Shortline Railroad in New London, Mo. (pop. 1,001). Then she stops and picks up a bright blue replica of The Little Engine That Could, reports American Profile.
This is [...]
According to a story at Fast Company, everything will soon be connected to the social net–we’ve said it before, but if you’re a social network denier then here’s proof positive: Now your tiny baby can status update too.
The magic comes from Belgium’s Hasselt University and [...]
The Chicago Tribune has an interesting article about the difference between a fad and a trend.
Zhu Zhu Pets are THE toy for Christmas. Every kid wants them. Cepia, the maker of Zhu Zhu Pets, is billing the toys as “the best alternatives to real live hamsters” [...]
The New York Times has a story about a man with an interesting ‘job’.
For the past 10 years, Jesus Leonardo has been cleaning up at an OTB parlor in Midtown Manhattan, cashing in, by his own count, nearly half a million dollars’ worth of discarded winning [...]
In a speech on Tuesday, President Obama outlined proposals intended to promote job creation.
They included incentives for small businesses to hire more workers, additional money to build roads and other construction projects and rebates for homeowners who invest in energy-saving weatherizing improvements, reports The New [...]
This day next week, the International Franchise Association will publish its Franchise Outlook 2010. The projections that Matt Shay will outline for the coming year of franchising will provide an essential insight into the how the industry is faring at the moment, not to mention a weather vane for how [...]
When it came to divvying up baking duties in the family business, Putch & Buckie’s Baked Goods, Buckie always made the anise biscotti.
The mother-daughter team of Dolores Sides, aka Buckie, and Sara Goulet, aka Putch, started their home-based Hershey business in 2003, using the family’s [...]
