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In a time when the 24-hour news cycle bombards us with stories of tragedy, heartbreak and deceit, it can be difficult to keep our heads up and remain optimistic about [...]

Stressed? Exhausted? Stuck in a rut? Or just feeling a little ho-hum? When it's time to nourish your soul, reach for these ideas ... 1. Make this daily 10-minute date [...]

AFTER REACHING A BIG GOAL, A LETDOWN IS ALMOST CERTAIN. TO COPE, FOLLOW ADVICE FROM ACHIEVERS AND ENTREPRENEURS WHO HAVE BEEN THROUGH IT THEMSELVES. Have you ever felt deflated after [...]

On the day of the announcement that would be heard around the world, Jose Garcia awoke without realizing anything unusual was in store. He dressed, left the run-down rental home [...]

IT WAS THE BIG DAY, the opening of the championship round of the international FIRST Robotics Competition, and Carolina Menjivar was so nervous that she'd had trouble eating for two [...]

Get a new job. Land a promotion. What would you do if you weren't afraid? Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg posed that query in her best-seller Lean In: Women, [...]

A SENSE OF URGENCY RIPPLES Gary Vaynerchuk's raspy New Jersey-accented voice. The 38-year-old self-made social media marketer is sitting at an office table, looking intently into a video camera as [...]

YOU HAVE PROBABLY GIVEN MORE than a passing thought to being your own boss, maybe even pursuing an entrepreneurial idea you've nurtured for a long time. Well, as the economy [...]

Paul Allen wears a big beard in the old photo, Bill Gates looks like he's 15, Standing behind them are nine colleagues dressed in tieless plaid shirts or other informal [...]

For just a minute, or as long as it takes you to read this article, suspend your disbelief. Shift those mental gears. Disengage from the here-and-now reality of paying bills, [...]

If Facebook were a nation, it would be the world's third largest behind only China and India. Hundreds of new people join every hour. And at the helm stands fresh-faced [...]

Jimmy Carter is visiting a poor village in tropical Ghana when he notices a beautiful woman in her 20s standing near the edge of a crowd. She's holding her arms [...]

As we emerge from economic recession, we seek beacons of inspiration and leadership--innovative thinkers who challenge our ideas about what is possible in business, the world and in ourselves. SUCCESS [...]

A lot of great things can come from starting a business at a young age: Gaining independence. Dealing with hard knocks. Resourcefulness. Self-confidence. Money-management and goal-setting skills. Maybe even hitting [...]

Almost everyone has an opinion about marriage and relationships. Just ask Dear Abby or your mother-in-law. Much of the advice comes in sound bites, in reaction to the crises of [...]

At 61, Wally Blume could've prepared to retire. He instead mortgaged his house and cars to buy out his partners and run his own national ice cream enterprise. At 72, [...]

Ken Burns faced a quadruple whammy when a couple of years out of college he approached the first of many potential funders to ask for money for his first full-length [...]

Nutrition and exercise boost mood and brain power. An angry disposition can bring on back pain. A positive attitude can aid in recovery from disease. Stress can kill you. Think [...]

Zhena Muzyka sized up the bleak situation: Here she was, a 25-year-old single mom whose baby needed lifesaving surgery for a kidney defect. She punched numbers into the ATM but [...]

Great family businesses share certain traits: loyalty among the team, vigilance and competitiveness in their fields. Those that pass successfully from one generation to the next have a sense of [...]

Tasia Malakasis ditched her high-charged career with technology startups to follow a slower-paced calling of cheese making. College assistant basketball coach Michelle Marciniak loved the fabric of her favorite athletic [...]

At 66, newly retired high-school teacher Frank McCourt finally accomplished what he considers his personal equivalent of climbing Mount Everest or running a four-minute mile: He wrote a book. His [...]

A surprising thing happened after David Bach moved his family into New York City's first green residential tower, The Solaire, which features views of the Hudson River, filtered fresh air [...]

Kareema Conda-Barr had a lot going for her: She loved being a cheerleader and ranked 11th academically in her high school freshman class. He dad, a retired professor, pushed education [...]

Roberto Velez used to work nights cleaning jets at JFK Airport. The work was hard, but he didn't have much hope of a better job. He didn't have skills, education [...]

Jan Bey twice found herself in the hospital emergency room, her throat constricted, unable to breathe. But her persistent sinus and breathing problems ended when she moved out of an [...]

Don't throw away those exercise videos and ubiquitous AOL CDs. Jim Williams wants you to mail old videotapes and CDs to him, so that more than 40 disabled staffers at […]

AT A SUPERMARKET in the Midwest. Mary Lee Treter passes aisles of shelves stocked with countless products containing genetically engineered ingredients: cereal, muffins, milk, taco shells, frozen pizzas. Hawaiian-grown fresh [...]

AS A SMALL CROWD gathered by a closed runway at a little airport outside Dallas, 40-something father of five Lane Segerstrom did an unlikely thing. Stepping onto an extra-long skateboard [...]

In one corner of the United States, mountain goats traipse across the fragile alpine flowers that speckle the snowline of Washington's craggy Olympic Mountains. They look beautiful, but the goats [...]

Denis Hayes is back. The menace he's stalking this time: dirty energy, which contributes to global warming and befouls the air in the world's cities. The last time Denis Hayes [...]

Ralph W. Braun was 6 when he was told he wouldn't live past his teens. He and his cousins were playing with toy cars in his aunt's driveway when he [...]

Abroad smile easily crosses Quanitta 'Queen' Underwood's face, lighting her up. Gone during these moments is the tough stance and penetrating stare she wears in the boxing ring, where her [...]

Americans love amusement parks. New ones are coming, from Wayne's World in the Florida Everglades to Trump Park in Connecticut. Just how much of the natural world should we trade [...]

Alex Bogusky has a fire pole outside his office door that lets him slide down to the next floor of the Crispin Porter + Bogusky advertising agency--a place of bikes [...]

Three young guys in Southern California buy a used camera on eBay and make a decision that scares their parents: They're going to a war-torn area of Africa to capture [...]

Park biologist Mike Owen had been on the job only two months when he got a startling phone call. It was the park manager. Come to the parking lot, he [...]

Henry SiJohn, square-faced and bespectacled, peered across the broad waters of Lake Coeur d'Alene, the spiritual center of his Coeur d'Alene tribe. The water shimmered a deep blue, making for [...]

1 Network with everybody you've ever worked with; connect on LinkedIn with each person you meet on the job. 'LinkedIn will be a lifeline for your next job,' says Don [...]

The wind muffles his speech as Ed Cassano, manager of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary, looks out from his 56-foot research vessel Ballena. He gazes onto the broad Pacific [...]

Pent-up demand for new space launched the build-to-suit boom five years ago and it's still going strong As the recession ended about five years ago, some South Florida businesses grew [...]

NASHVILLE - Already they had bused employees in from 40 miles away, introduced on-site child care and offered flexible work schedules. But a 2.9 percent unemployment rate has spurred the [...]

ORLANDO--Universal Studios Florida has announced one of the biggest hotel projects of the year. It will include five themed hotels with more than 4,300 rooms. The question: Is Orlando finally [...]

Purchase that daily latte, advises financial expert Nicole Lapin. Surprised? That's not her only unusual advice. 'It's not your momma's finance lesson,' Lapin says in describing her new book, Rich [...]