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Jess McCann started her own sales company after college, teaching her employees sales techniques to peddle wares for local telecom and office supply companies. Today, she’s using sales principles to coach women on how to successfully attract and get the men they want.

I wish I could have seen him perform. Even though he may have morphed from a freakish talent into a freak show, he was still a force of nature. I hope he can finally now find some peace.

John Easterling has always had a fascination with treasure hunting.

After graduating from the University of North Carolina with a degree in environmental science, he sold his car and bought a ticket to Ecuador to look for lost cities of gold. When he didn’t find any, he began to buy local handicraft items and developed a business around selling the native wares.

What was Fehr's real legacy? A cancelled World Series, an astronomical rise in ticket prices, and a record book forever ruined by steroid cheats.

In a world where most of us spend much -- if not most -- of our waking hours working, thinking about work, dreading work, or postponing work, two authors are urging us to take a step back and look at what work really means to us.

2009 Bowman Draft Picks are out, featuring two autographed rookie cards per box — one signed card and one autographed patch card. The signed cards and patches feature the top picks in the 2009 NFL draft. There’s a 220 base card set that includes 110 rookie cards. Packs come with a $3 suggested retail price.
Here is what the set looks like:
A base set of 220 cards.
PARALLELS

Strange things are happening on the Korean peninsula. In the North, the return to an isolated, threatening stance by Pyongyang has abruptly terminated fitful cooperation to dismantle nuclear facilities. A second nuclear explosion, following the first three years ago, accompanied by long-range missile launches has definitely gotten global attention.

Instant American analysts often misread British politics, primarily because we use our own different political culture to explain theirs. The ruling Labour Party has just suffered a severe double defeat in elections for local county councils and the European Parliament. Drawing on our own personality-driven politics, pundits concentrate on Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

From ancient times to the present, amphibious military operations have been rightly regarded as particularly challenging. The largest such enterprise was the Allied invasion of France in World War II on June 6, 1944 – D-Day.

As the international community grapples with the latest thundering threats from North Korea, which for the second time in three years have been accompanied by a nuclear explosion, the principal forum is the United Nations.