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Source: SharpBrains - 08-27 - BusinessWeek covers a best practice in a topic of growing importance: how large companies can retain older workers in productive ways beyond a set arbitrary retirement age.

Source: Newsday - Business - 08-27 - Sears Holdings Corp. voluntarily recalled 145,000 Kenmore brand coffee makers because the wiring can overheat and cause fires or burns, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said Tuesday.

Source: Business Wire - 08-27 - Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN), the global leader in satellite navigation, today announced the next evolution of the n

Source: Business Wire - 08-27 - Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN), the global leader in satellite navigation, today announced the next evolution of the popular

Source: SEO Journal - 08-27 - When it come to search engine optimization, Google Suggest has mixed outcomes. Suggest has now become the search default for all Google search interfaces. Similar to Yahoo!'s Search Assist, Suggest brings in a drop down window with suggestions to complete your query.

Source: IndustryWeek.com - 08-27 - While conforming to government regulations is essential, manufacturers are equally focused on demonstrating they can ensure the overall safety and security of the brand.

Source: Lifehacker - 08-27 - We spend half of our lives on computers and the internet, and as a result the number of logins and passwords we have to remember from day to day is unmanageable for mere mortals. Instead of keeping all of that information floating around in your head and at the mercy of your already taxed memorization skills, a slew of password management tools are available to help you track and organize your passwords with ease.

Source: USATODAY.com Tech - 08-27 - Video clips on point-and-shoot digital cameras are great: Why not use them on cool digital SLRs as well? Nikon hopes to hammer ...

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Source: physorg.com - 08-27 - Taking 1000mg of a specific olive leaf extract (EFLA(R)943) can lower cholesterol and lower blood pressure in patients with mild hypertension (high blood pressure). These findings came from a 'Twins' trial, in which different treatments were given to identical twins.

Source: physorg.com - 08-27 - Arctic Ocean sea ice has melted to the second lowest minimum since satellite observations began, according to scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center. Sea ice melt recorded on Monday exceeded the low recorded in 2005, which had held second place.

Source: Readers Digest - 08-27 - Watch video clips of some of the most famous speeches given at past Democratic and Republican national conventions.

Source: NASA Image of the Day - 08-27 - Galaxies don't normally look like this. That's because this image of NGC 3256 shows two galaxies that are slowly colliding. Quite possibly, in hundreds...

Source: HRE Online - 08-27 - There are lessons to be learned from the behavior of workers and 401(k) plans when employers design health plans that require complex decisions. Too many workers delay decisions or opt for a short-term result. And more education does not seem to be the answer.

Source: Dictionary.com Word of the Day - 08-27 - naif: a naive or inexperienced person.

Source: ManageSmarter.com - 08-27 - Further evidence of what you've known all along: Not enough resources are being devoted to achieving what your boss says he or she wants you to achieve.

Source: CNN - Personal Finance - 08-27 - Entitlement has become a bit of a swear word. In Washington, D.C., it's technically a nonpejorative term for government programs like Social Security and Medicare that aren't subject to the usual budget process.

Source: HarvardBusiness.org - 08-27 - People typically associate innovation with the introduction of a sexy new product or service. While this kind of innovation gets the headlines, innovative ideas applied to everyday problems can have just as much business impact.

Source: HarvardBusiness.org - 08-27 - The knee-jerk response to cost-reduction pressures in an economic downturn is turn up the heat to wring greater productivity out of your work force. This is not your best option, and will hurt more than help. A smarter approach is to get more out of your people by tapping into what people really care about, in all parts of their lives. When you do this--for real, not just as window dressing for some faux social welfare program--you not only reduce stress, you decrease time wasted on activities that don't matter, boost trust with the company, and build resilience.

Source: WSJ.com Careers - 08-27 - Many companies are using personality and ability assessments as pre-employment or orientation tools in an effort to help a company hire a specific type of person for a job that might require certain traits -- or conversely, to rule out traits that are likely to lead to job failure.

Source: Inc.com - HR - 08-27 - A survey finds prices at the pumps are a bigger concern than unemployment.

Source: National Geographic News - 08-27 - Building projects in London have unearthed over 17,000 skeletons, some dating to the Middle Ages. Some of the oddest are now on display.

Source: National Geographic News - 08-27 - U.S. President George W. Bush has proposed marine national monuments around several U.S.-held islands in the Pacific Ocean. It could become the world's largest protected area.

Source: National Geographic News - 08-27 - The animals appear to graze and rest in a north-south direction that aligns with magnetic north, not geographic north, according to an analysis of Google Earth images.

Source: Scientific American - 08-27 - Veteran journalist Merrill Goozner, director of the Integrity in Science project at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, discusses his series of articles for sciam.com on the rise of tuberculosis in Russia.

Source: Scientific American - 08-27 - The use of microchips to track people (such as those embedded in hospital wristbands) and products (those uncomfortable tags on clothing that have to be cut off prior to wearing) has come under fire from civil rights groups who claim that big corporations are using this technology as a tool for spying.

Source: Scientific American - 08-27 - "Drunken" trees listing wildly, cracked highways and sinkholes--all are visible signs of thawing Arctic permafrost. When this frozen soil warms, it releases carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases as microbes start to thrive on the organic material it contains--a potentially potent source of uncontrollable climate change.

Source: Scientific American - 08-27 - The eyes are the windows to the soul. This fact is why we ask people to look us in the eye and tell us the truth. Or why we get worried when someone gives us the evil eye or has a wandering eye. Our everyday language is full of expressions that refer to where people around us are looking. Particularly if they happen to be looking in our direction.  View Eye Illusions Slide Show [More]

Source: physorg.com - 08-27 - A new TV commercial shows kids eating hot dogs in a school cafeteria and one little boy's haunting lament: I was dumbfounded when the doctor told me I have late-stage colon cancer. It's a startling revelation in an ad that vilifies one of America's most beloved, if maligned, foods, while stoking fears about a dreaded disease.

Source: physorg.com - 08-27 - Space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to roll out to Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Saturday, Aug. 30. Atlantis is targeted to lift off Oct. 8 to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.

Source: physorg.com - 08-27 - Vitamin D is the key to preventing rickets and osteoporosis, but Rockefeller University scientists suspect it may also play a role in heading off atherosclerosis in people with chronic kidney disease.

Source: physorg.com - 08-27 - Glasgow scientists, working at CERN, have observed the first particles in the Large Hadron Collider during preliminary tests ahead of the switch-on next month.

Source: physorg.com - 08-27 - The next sample of Martian soil being grabbed for analysis is coming from a trench about three times deeper than any other trench NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has dug.

Source: physorg.com - 08-27 - A new study could explain why daddy and mommy are often a baby's first words - the human brain may be hard-wired to recognize certain repetition patterns.

Source: physorg.com - 08-27 - Many theories have sought to explain what causes the baggy lower eyelids that come with aging, but UCLA researchers have now found that fat expansion in the eye socket is the primary culprit. As a result, researchers say, fat excision should be a component of treatment for patients seeking to address this common complaint.

Source: physorg.com - 08-27 - New research from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, shows that‚—for women‚—the caffeine advantage is indeed everything it's cracked up to be. Females who don't drink coffee can get just as much of a caffeine boost as those who sip it regularly, according to a study in the latest edition of Nutrition Research.

Source: physorg.com - 08-27 - Oregon State University scientists have completed a new analysis of an earthquake fault line that extends some 200 miles off the southern and central Oregon coast that they say is more active than the San Andreas Fault in California.

Source: physorg.com - 08-27 - The first multicenter study of the accuracy of some of the latest cardiac imaging technology found it was 99 percent as effective in ruling out obstructive coronary artery stenosis - or narrowing of these arteries - as the more expensive and invasive coronary angiography traditionally used by physicians, according to research published online by the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Source: physorg.com - 08-27 - Babies delivered by Caesarean section have a 20 per cent higher risk than normal deliveries of developing the most common type of diabetes in childhood, according to a study led by Queen's University Belfast.

Source: physorg.com - 08-27 - Early cancer detection can significantly improve survival rates. Current diagnostic tests often fail to detect cancer in the earliest stages and at the same time expose a patient to the harmful effects of radiation.

Source: physorg.com - 08-27 - Studies have shown that approximately 16% of patients with localised prostate cancer regret their treatment choice.

Source: physorg.com - 08-27 - Bluetooth wireless headsets for mobile phones are puzzling: We're supposed to control them with couple of unmarked buttons and get feedback from a single indicator light.

Source: HarvardBusiness.org - 08-26 - During our interviews with 55 successful business and social entrepreneurs worldwide, we were struck by the fact that many had started their enterprises during a recession or in the wake of one. Prominent examples include Clif Bar , Chipotle , and Hanna Andersson .

Source: HarvardBusiness.org - 08-26 - How did I spend my summer vacation? Forgive me for this self-indulgent topic, but I have a feeling that you might resonate with it--and isn't blogging all about self-indulgence? What I did was work, pretty much all the time.

Source: Business Week - Top News - 08-26 - No longer content to advertise at random, online marketers are watching what you watch, where you surf, and what you search for

Source: Forbes - Business - 08-26 - An education at one of these schools isn't cheap. But they aren't the ones you're thinking of.

Source: CNN - Top Stories - 08-26 - Surprisingly, some fuel efficient vehicles aren't the most economical choices out there. Here are some that are.

Source: CNN - Top Stories - 08-26 - Are you getting enough sleep? For years, Cynthia McKay wasn't.

Source: TheStreet.com - 08-26 - Food lovers visit the city when they want to eat well and dress down.

Source: NASA Image of the Day - 08-26 - Eta Carinae, one of the most massive and unstable stars in the Milky Way Galaxy, has a profound effect on its environment. Found in the South...

Source: Dictionary.com Word of the Day - 08-26 - peregrination: a traveling from place to place.

Source: WSJ - Small Bus. - 08-26 - Owners of bicycle rickshaws in Denver are seizing on the Democratic National Convention as a chance to showcase their human-powered taxis as more than just a novelty.

Source: Discovery Channel - 08-26 - Estimates show the Arctic tundra holds tons of carbon that will be released with warming.

Source: National Geographic News - 08-26 - Yes, say water experts, who cite droughts and competition as reasons why recycled sewage is already being used in California and other parts of the developed world.

Source: National Geographic News - 08-26 - Photos of giant whale sharks snapped by vacationing scuba divers and snorkelers are helping scientists track the elusive marine creatures across the oceans thanks to a star-mapping method used by NASA.

Source: National Geographic News - 08-26 - Despite its species' fearsome reputation, the colossal squid was likely sluggish and would have been filled with thousands of glowing babies, said a scientist who dissected her.

Source: ManageSmarter.com - 08-26 - Do you have prospects that seem to give you the run-around?

Source: ManageSmarter.com - 08-26 - What kills good innovative marketing campaigns before they even have a chance to go live?

Source: ManageSmarter.com - 08-26 - A sluggish economy is dire news, but not as dire as you may thing - provided you know how to work it to your company's advantage by maintaining strong employee development.

Source: ManageSmarter.com - 08-26 - As career competition increases and employees feel pressure to get more work done in less time, companies are hiring corporate concierges to handle tasks.