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FAQ: Tiger Woods and Lindsey Vonn, Sports Power Couple
When legendary golfer Tiger Woods and Olympian skier Lindsey Vonn went public with their relationship on Monday—on Facebook, of all places—they answered a lot of questions. Yes, they really are dating....
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Q&A: Is Colorado the Napa Valley of Weed?
Matt Brown and James Walker, two Denver-based entrepreneurs, recently launched the world’s first marijuana tourism company, My 420 Tours. A business like this—imagine a guided tour of the California...
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FAQ: The Mysterious Death of Russian Oligarch Boris Berezovsky
Who was Boris Berezovsky again? A self-made billionaire—at the height of his wealth in 1997, Berezovsky’s estimated worth was $3 billion, according to Forbes—a former academic who, after the...
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Discovery Channel Doubles Down on Nudity-Based Programming
Ever since Survivor contestant Richard Hatch went spearfishing in the buff during the show’s inaugural season in 2000, gratuitous nudity has become something of a staple of the reality TV genre. But...
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Dude! The Battle to Become the ‘Male Pinterest’
Matt Bruce, a 27-year-old education administrator from San Diego, likes beer, whiskey, and backpacking gear. He also likes the Internet. About a year ago, Bruce came across a website called...
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FAQ: How Those Dove ‘Real Beauty Sketch’ Ads Went Viral
What’s this “Real Beauty Sketches” Dove commercial that everybody’s talking about? It’s a Web-only commercial that made its debut in mid-April as part of Dove’s ongoing “Campaign for Real Beauty.” In...
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Five Business Lessons From ‘Inferno’ Author Dan Brown
Dan Brown has a new book. Perhaps you’ve heard of it? Inferno? If you have access to an Internet connection or have come in contact with other human beings, you’re likely aware that it’s available...
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Seven Songs We’d Like to See Andrew Mason Cover
Groupon founder Andrew Mason is trying to get his groove back. In a blog post on May 16, he announced his relocation from Chicago to San Francisco and his involvement with the startup accelerator Y...
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Unpaid-Intern Lawsuits Explained
There seem to be a lot of interns suing their employers lately. What’s the deal? The deal is they now have reason to believe they can win. It started on June 11, when a federal district court judge in...
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Daft Punk’s ‘Get Lucky’: How to Build the Song of the Summer
Get Lucky, the new single from French electronic duo Daft Punk, is on its way to becoming the official summer anthem of 2013. Since its release on April 19, it’s sold 838,000 digital downloads in the...
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How a Tiffany’s Employee Stole $1.3 Million in Jewelry
An executive at Tiffany & Co. allegedly stole $1.3 million worth of jewelry from the company. How’d she do it? Very slowly, it seems. Ingrid Lederhaas-Okun, 46, worked as the vice president of...
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Eight Business Lessons From Whitey Bulger
James “Whitey” Bulger, the 83-year old head of South Boston’s feared Winter Hill Gang, accused of masterminding at least 19 murders, has been called a lot of things during his racketeering trial: a...
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Drink Deception and the Legal War on Vitaminwater
There’s a lawsuit against Vitaminwater? On what grounds? On the grounds that it’s terrible for you. It was first filed in 2009 by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), a Washington...
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Life Imitates Hollywood in a $136 Million Jewelry Heist
File this one under “Now did this really happen, or are you just telling me the plot of your screenplay?” Here’s what went down: Yesterday morning, at the Carlton Intercontinental Hotel in Cannes, a...
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The Best (and Most Awkward) CEO Cameos in TV History
Mickey Drexler, the 69-year-old chief executive officer of J.Crew Group, is a big fan of AMC’s Breaking Bad, the drama about meth kingpins in Albuquerque. He is such a big fan, in fact, that he scored...
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Operation Clean Turf and the War on Fake Yelp Reviews
On Sept. 23, New York State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced that officials had busted 19 companies after a year-long undercover investigation of criminal practices. What were these...
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The Case of the Missing $1 Million Norman Rockwell Painting
Somebody may have stolen a Norman Rockwell painting worth more than $1 million from a warehouse in Queens, N.Y.? “Stolen” may be premature, but the painting in question—Sport, which was once featured...
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Stan Lee’s New Superhero Fights for Truth, Justice, and the Indian Way
Stan Lee, the comic book legend who co-created such enduring superheroes as Spider-Man and the X-Men, shared plans this week for his latest creation: an Indian superhero named Chakra. Lee’s POW!...
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Germs, Male Customers, and the Online Breast Milk Market
In a study published Monday by the journal Pediatrics, unpasteurized human breast milk purchased online was found to contain harmful bacteria. What kind of bacteria exactly? Of the 101 human milk...
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Those Comics in Your Basement? Probably Worthless
Barry T. Smith, 44, spent most of his life collecting comic books. And he always considered them an investment. “These books would someday be college tuition, or a house down payment,” Smith remembers...
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