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Revlon Removes Dubious Chemicals From Its Products

After a consumer petition demanded change, global cosmetics giant Revlon announced in December it is removing long-chain parabens and formaldehyde-releasing chemicals from its beauty products.

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US Tech Boom Fuels Surge in Jobs, Jazzier Perks

The tech sector is fueling a job boom that stands in stark contrast to the malaise of the general job market. Competition for cloud computing engineers, security experts, and mobile developers as well as sales professionals in the technology industry has gotten so fierce that companies are going to greater lengths to woo prospective employees.

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Phone Uses a Radar App to Help Locate Keys, Kids, or Dogs

Are you tired of misplacing your keys, remote control or iPad? A clever invention called Stick-N-Find can help you find anything within 100 feet using your smart phone and Bluetooth. The application uses small tokens that you can affix to anything -- a device, a child or an animal -- for instant location using your Apple or Android phone. 4,500 people on the internet were impressed enough with the device that they've funded the project to the tune of $340,000.

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High School Of Entrepreneurship: All Students Prepared to Start Businesses

Not your typical high school , there are very few lectures and students write on walls – everything prepares them to start their own businesses.

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Google Gives $600K to Calif. Teachers to Spend in Classrooms

Because most teachers spend their own money to simply buy classroom supplies, imagine the joy across San Francisco area schools last week, when 604 teachers opened the mail to discover that Google would spend more than $600,000 to fund special requests teachers made for outside money to fund pet projects.

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Green Australians Reusing 90% of Food Waste

Australian Food and Grocery Council revealed that about 90% of waste and by-products from food and grocery manufacturers surveyed was being reused or recycled, with less than 10% going to landfill.

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Corporations Mimic Rainforest Efficiency While Creating Profits

Radical environmentalists and industrial corporations are trying to prove that industry can mimic the rainforests and increase profits at the same time.

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HP Leads in PC Recycling

Hewlett-Packard Co. has been in the forefront of the movement to recycle old computers and has strategized to benefit from it.