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All About AT&T's iPad Hacker, Andrew Auernheimer

This, people, is Andrew Auernheimer, the hacker who last week exposed 114,000 iPad owners' details courtesy of AT&T's lax security system. He also goes by the name of Escher, but we'll call him by yet another alias: Weev. (Whether ...READ»

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Prison Valley Interactive Documentary Puts Anti-Social Behavior Into Social Media

Last month, a strange little project launched online. Prison Valley is an interactive, Web-based documentary with its own iPhone app, and a heavy social media presence. It's been produced in three languages, by two French guys with a ...READ»

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Portland: Farm-Fresh Food [Fast Cities 2010]

Portland has long been lauded for its farmers markets, but in February, the city welcomed a new high-tech tool to bring large-scale, farm-fresh foods to city hospitals, public schools, corporate cafeterias -- even Oregon state ...READ»

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Exclusive: Google Goes to Jail for April Fools?

Sorry to spoil the fun, Googlers, but one of your own just sneaked us a peek at your April Fool's Day prank: Google Jail. That or, um, Google is far more sinister (and naive) than we ever imagined ... Nah!READ»

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Scam: The Weinstein, Eagle and March Group Seek Damages for Water Well and Irrigation Scam

Day one, we are really moving in the right direction. Received the private investigator's report.READ»

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Breakout Ministries, Inc. - a Christian Ministry Focused on the Evangelism, Education and Support of Inmates and their Families

Breakout Ministries, Inc. - a Christian Ministry Focused on the Evangelism, Education and Support of Inmates and their FamiliesREAD»

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William M Keever invited to serve as Director of Charity Named Break Out Ministries

William M Keever to serve as Director of Break Out Group.READ»

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How to Write a Book Proposal That Sells

Assuming you have an idea for a work that a reader would plunk down $25 for, how do you get the HarperCollinses and Hyperions of the world to publish it? [Viral Loop Chronicles Part 5]READ»

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About Generational Equity

Generational EquityREAD»

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Escaping Your Inner Mental Prison

"Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now," the world-renown psychiatrist and author of the classic bestseller, Man's Search for Meaning, ...READ»

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Say It Ain't So! 2 Stories of Management Run Amuck

I’m stunned – and so are they! My job sometimes requires me to see the dark underbelly of managing in the time of the WorkQuake™.  But. Fortunately, nothing any of my clients have ever done even comes close to these two ...READ»

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An Aggravated Crime Means Different Circumstances Apply

Aggravated in reference to a crime is something different.READ»

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An Aggravating Crime

There is a "regular crime" then there is an "aggravated crime," but what does this mean in the scheme of the American justice system?READ»

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Asphalt Eyesore Transformed Into a Living Outdoor Palace

A grade school in Sweden had a problem: Their "playground" was really nothing more than a vast flat slab of asphalt--better suited to prison inmates pumping iron than kids lollygagging and playing tag. They wanted a ...READ»

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On Determining Our Leadership: Why Women Have a Responsibility to Vote

This is the story of our grandmothers and greatgrandmothers; they lived only 90 years ago. Remember, it was not until 1920 that women were granted the right to go to the polls and vote. The women were innocent and defenseless, but ...READ»

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Rising Star: Prison Entrepreneurship Program

Catherine F. Rohr, CEO Houston, Texas pep.org A large percentage of inmates come to prison as seasoned entrepreneurs, having run highly successful enterprises such as drug rings and gangs. What if these influential leaders were ...READ»

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The Three Keys to Change

In this excerpt from the introduction to his new book, Change or Die: The Three Keys to Change at Work and in Life, Alan Deutschman discusses the framework to successfully change yourself.READ»

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CEOs in the Slammer

This year, a record number of CEOs were ousted. Some were fired, some retired, and some even died. But a great number were also sent to prison, like the CEOs of Enron and WorldCom. What happens to company leaders when they run roughshod over their corporations?READ»

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Welcome to Club Fed

David Novak made 11 cents an hour baking bread during his stay at Eglin Federal Prison Camp in Florida. Now he makes a nice living advising white-collar felons on what to expect on the inside. Read on. It might keep your CEO scared straight.READ»

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Samuel Mockbee: A Design for Life

More than a year after profiling Samuel Mockbee for our Who's Fast 2001 issue, former Fast Company writer Curtis Sittenfeld reflects on the legacy of an architecture professor who taught both compassion and craft.READ»

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This Ball Has Brains

A tracking system based on geometric calculations.READ»

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Office Handbook

When the buildings on fire, women and CEOs first.READ»

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Street Smarts

"If you can manage a bad pimp . . . and still be living," says Lateefah Simon, "you've got leadership skills you need to put to good use."READ»

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Between the Lines

The stories behind this issue's storiesREAD»

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From the Penthouse to the Big House

David Novak did time as a white-collar crook at Eglin Federal Prison Camp, aka Club Fed. Now he advises first-time felons on how to survive life on the inside. Hey, Ken and Jeff (and Bernie and Sam and Dennis), would you like his number?READ»