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- Celebrity HealthStyles
- September 27, 2011
What do a model-turned-TV host, a Canadian musician and a boy with a post-dentist buzz have in common? A few minutes on YouTube changed their lives. They may not be household names, but the power of the Internet took Amber Lee Ettinger, Dave Carroll and David Devore Jr. to places no one could have imagined.
READ MOREGeneral Motors recalls various 2013 Chevrolet, Cadillac and GMC vehicles0
- Consumer Alerts
- January 9, 2013
GM is recalling 54,686 model year 2013 Cadillac Escalade, Escalade ESV, and Escalade EXT; Chevrolet Avalanche, Express, Silverado HD, Silverado LD, Suburban, and Tahoe; and GMC Savana, Sierra HD, Sierra LD, Yukon, and Yukon XL vehicles. Manufactured between November 7, 2012, through December 18, 2012, the vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal
READ MOREGene mutation seems to protect people against Alzheimer’s disease0
- Health & Healing
- July 16, 2012
A study shows that a rare mutation in genetic code may protect people from Alzheimer’s, making them far less likely to develop the disease. The Washington Post, 7/16/2012
READ MOREGE’s Next “Ecomagination” Challenge for Entrepreneurs: Power Your Home0
- Green Initiatives
- January 14, 2011
The new initiative from GE's "Ecomagination" challenges budding business people and entrepreneurs to design the green home of the future–and pick up some of the $200 million that GE has earmarked for the Ecomagination challenges. Fast Company, 1/7/2011
READ MOREGap Year Momentum Grows as Studies Show Higher Performance After Delaying College Admission0
- Financial & Workplace Well-Being
- May 15, 2012
College admission officers say the gap year is gaining momentum. And now, some of the nation's most competitive colleges — Harvard, Middlebury and Princeton, among others — have adopted formal policies to allow students to defer their admission. Higher education experts say that giving students an opportunity to explore the real world for a year
READ MOREGabby Giffords: Finding Words Through Song0
- Health & Healing
- November 17, 2011
Music therapy has helped Gabrielle Giffords relearn how to talk. As Dr. Oliver Sacks, professor of Neurology at Columbia University, explains, "Nothing activates the brain so extensively as music." When a person can't speak, they can still sing, because a different part of the brain is involved. Seeing the transformation in Congresswoman Giffords— and the
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