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Fast Cities 2007

From Chicago to Shanghai, urban centers that are shaping our future.READ»

Web Features for Entrepreneurs

An index of Web-only stories from the Build Your Business Career Zone.READ»

Agnosticism, Ad Agencies, and End Runs

Two articles in today's New York Times highlight relatively new approaches to advertising. In the first, Melody Petersen takes a look at how medical device manufacturers are making an end run around doctors and appealing to consumers ...READ»

Work Together, Stay in Place

Learn how some smart organizations and quick learners are working virtually, efficiently, and seamlessly around the globe today.READ»

Work Together, Stay in Place

Learn how some smart organizations and quick learners are working virtually, efficiently, and seamlessly around the globe today.READ»

TECHNOLOGY   |  Comment

The Nuts and Bolts of Business

The MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab is building the future of business -- literally. Think C-3P0 with degrees in astrophysics, marine biology, and home economics.READ»

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FAQs of Life in the New Economy

A letter from the founding editors.READ»

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Fight Back

A collection of Web-exclusive stories about September 11 and its aftermath.READ»

WORK/LIFE   |  Comment

New Rules of the Road

What's it like up there, where legroom and stale peanuts used to be our biggest concerns? How are travelers navigating the new airport restrictions? Do you really need to check in two hours early? Share your firsthand accounts of airline travel today.READ»

The Joy of Packing

We have become a nation of accomplished travelers, but as packers, we're in need of some remedial training.READ»

Where Is the Next Frontier of Innovation?

Fast-paced experimentation. Distributed intelligence. Total teamwork. The scientific formula behind the new economy is still disrupting the status quo -- in this case, 20,000 leagues under the sea.READ»

Tools of the Trade Center

Find out how handheld computers and GPS systems are helping fire chief Joseph Pfeifer's team of firefighters document and track evidence found at the world's largest crime scene: ground zero.READ»

GM's New Cars--Designed Everywhere

Next week at the New York Auto Show, General Motors will unveil three concepts for its new minicar--and it'll invite customers to vote on which one should actually go into production. People can check out the models and choose their ...READ»

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Letter From the Editor

Land of the New Buick.READ»

CAREERS   |  Comment

Hard Times in Little Kabul

Afghan businesses in the Fremont, California area have been hard hit by fallout from the terrorist attacks. But patriotic Afghan-Americans are hopeful that their customers will return before it's too late.READ»

Attik's Anti-Pitch

NoiseFour represents a design experiment unmotivated by profit, clients, or internal procedure. Glimpse this "couture line" before it revolutionizes the mainstream.READ»

Agenda Items

Forget Napster and Java. The most revolutionary technologies often attract the fewest headlines.READ»

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Between the Lines

The stories behind this issue's storiesREAD»

Feminine Mystique

To design a new generation of shoes for women, Nike turned to nature for inspiration. In particular, the company adopted the stance of the lioness: tough and feminine.READ»

Brains For Sale

IBM's labs are home to 2,000 PhDs and 6 Nobel laureates.READ»

DESIGN   |  Comment

Virtual-Reality Check

Bill Buxton is the chief scientist at the company that helped create the computer-generated characters in the film "Final Fantasy." We asked him to speculate on what our world will look like 10 years from now. Here are his predictions.READ»

INNOVATION   |  Comment

What Is the State of the New Economy?

Our third annual report on the State of the New Economy.READ»

Social Entrepreneur - Don Harris

Talk about the power of leverage. Don Harris is a savvy lawyer and a creative deal maker whose nonprofit organization has figured out how to help moderate-income people make a down payment on the American dream -- literally.READ»

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Going Once, Going Twice ...

An Enron rubber ducky. An unopened code of ethics. A copy of "Money in Motion," a 401(k) booklet printed in 1999. Those are just a few of the Enron relics we bought on eBay following the company's bankruptcy filing. View the aftermath auctions here.READ»

Inside Intel's Mentoring Movement

Forget everything that you've ever learned about mentoring, especially the idea of hitching your wagon to a rising star. Here's how Intel is reinventing the old approach to mentoring to teach, inspire, and reconnect its employees.READ»