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The Best of Artisan Cosmetics

If you wouldn't eat your bath and body products, you're using the wrong stuff, says Teporah Bilezikian, owner of the makeup company Monavé: "Cosmetics are like fresh batches of pudding -- they shouldn't last six months."READ»

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The Siberian Energy Rush

Global warming is opening up the Arctic Circle, and Russia would like to control its bounty of natural resources. An exclusive dispatch from the Yamal Peninsula, where reindeer give way to railroads and gas rigs every day.READ»

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Ad:tech

Hotel advertisers buying space on travel sites? How very quaint. These days, ad buyers aren't targeting websites; they're targeting specific web users. Popular sites employ dozens of bits of tracking technology to gather insanely ...READ»

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The ATMs of the Future

The boxy frame, the greasy touch screens, the seemingly endless series of bleeps and bloops required to produce your cash -- there's not much to love about the modern ATM. Sure, it's better than the original, which dispensed only money, and only to people with accounts at its host bank. But ATM makers have sought to improve their product, in part because U.S. usage fell 20% in 2008, the most recent year for which data are available, to 11.8 billion transactions.READ»

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Election Day

After pulling down millions in boardrooms, a number of former CEOs are spending gobs to get into government: Carly Fiorina from HP spent $5.5 million on the California Senate primary, Meg Whitman from eBay is making a $119 million ...READ»

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Fast Blurbs: November 2010

On Deadline November is National Novel Writing Month. Writers across the country suppress writer's block and bond together to write a 175-page, or 50,000-word, novel in 30 days. Participants logged 2,427,190,537 words in ...READ»

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The Progression of Air Travel

One century ago this month, commercial air flight took off. And before we know it, we could be flying in cars, or taking family vacations to space. As airline bigwigs convene in London to talk the future, we glance at the bumpy path that got us here.READ»

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Re: September 2010

Nike's Playbook With someone like Mark Parker at the helm, it is no mistake that Nike is head and shoulders above the competition ("Artist. Athlete. CEO"). He embodies all of the great qualities necessary to distance yourself from ...READ»

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Suppliers Set Out to Grade Products with Sustainability Scorecards

Procter & Gamble and Kaiser Permanente set out to grade their suppliers' environmental practices with sustainability scorecards.READ»

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November Events

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How a Handful of Countries Control the Earth's Most Precious Materials

While the global market for ever more sophisticated tech gadgets grows, the metals and minerals that make them go are controlled by a handful of countries.READ»

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Swans Island Blankets Are Artisanally Made From the Finest Fleece

Maine is not China, and in many ways, that's a fine thing, especially when it comes to Northport-based Swans Island Blankets. "We could never compete on price with low-wage countries or industrial looms," says company president Bill ...READ»

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Bravo's Bravo Now iPad App Drives Dual-Platform Usage

Lisa Hsia directs the team behind Bravo Now, an app that enhances viewers' interactive experiences.READ»

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Ecotality and BP Work Together to Roll Out Charging Stations for Electric Vehicles

With the Nissan Leaf and GM's Volt hitting the streets in December, GE, BP, and a host of design stars are racing to install the gas pump's high-style replacement.READ»

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Best of Artisan Chocolate

What tastes better with chocolate? According to these confectioners, just about everything.READ»

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Portrait of the Rapper as a Young Marketer: How K'naan Delivered on Coca-Cola's $300 Million Bet

Coca-Cola bet that an unknown Somali rapper could support its biggest marketing campaign ever. The company was right, and it may have launched a new star. Or not.READ»

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Preserving the Gift of Giving

Americans donated $304 billion in 2009, down 3.6%, and this year some are pledging more. We spoke to seven philanthropists of all different incomes, from billionaires promising half their wealth via Bill Gates and Warren Buffett's Giving Pledge, to regular folks earmarking a slice of their salaries.READ»

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The Challenges of Eco-Friendliness

Starbucks isn't the only company discovering that setting sustainability targets is easy, but achieving them is not.READ»

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The Best of Etsy's Handmade Objects

Look past the handmade trash and you might just find some splendidly designed treasures on Etsy.READ»

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The 50th Anniversary of the Peace Corps

Fifty years ago this month, President John F. Kennedy gave a name to his idea to send Americans abroad "to encourage mutual understanding between Americans and other cultures of the world." A look at the numbers behind the venerable Peace Corps.READ»

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Dustin Callif's Touching Stories Adds Interactivity to Films

Dustin Callif produced Touching Stories, a four-film app that gives viewers new power.READ»

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"Thank You" Goes a Long Way

A basic management tool that Nancy Lublin argues is all too often underused? A simple phrase that you learned as a toddler--"thank you."READ»

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A Walk Down Horror Lane

2010 marks the 50th anniversary of Psycho and the 100th birthday of the first movie version of Frankenstein. In the run-up to every horror lover’s favorite holiday, here’s a look at the numbers behind the business of scary movies.READ»

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Phineas and Ferb Take the Boys' Market by Storm

"Phineas and Ferb" is the hippest, nerdiest, unlikeliest hit on TV -- and now Disney hopes it can be a SpongeBob-like cash cow.READ»

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Change Generation: Nora Abousteit on Her Close-Knit Virtual Sewing Circle BurdaStyle.com

In the latest installment of our video series on risk-taking, do-gooding young entrepreneurs, learn about an online community for lovers of sewing that offers downloadable, copyright-free patterns, advice, and more.READ»