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Dow Surges to Record … and Keeps Going

The Dow closed at an all-time high Tuesday, beating the previous record it set in October 2007, before the financial crisis and Great Recession. The Dow Jones industrial average jumped from the opening bell, climbing as much as 158 points early and closing at 14,253.77.

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Life is Good Builds Brand Based on Optimism

Optimism has been good for Bert Jacobs, who along with his brother John, co-founded Life is good in 1989. The lifestyle and clothing brand has grown from two brothers sleeping in a van while they sold T-shirts door-to-door on college campuses to a $100 million business built around the idea of spreading optimism.

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Microsoft Gives Away the New Office Bundle to Nonprofits Worldwide

Starting today, Microsoft's Technology for Good program are donating Office 365 to nonprofits worldwide regardless of the organization's size. The offer is available in 41 countries today, and will be rolled out to 49 more by July 2014.

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New Organic Drive-Thru Offers Vegan Fries With Your Non-GMO Burger

People can't get enough of a new fast food joint in central California that is super-sizing healthy alternatives to greasy fare.

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Hoax Prompts Free Food From Taco Bell for Alaska Town

Bethel, Alaska is a town so remote that it has a total of zero fast food restaurants. No Burger King. No McDonalds. No KFC chicken. That's why residents were thrilled when flyers circulated around town about a new Taco Bell arriving. The joy, however, turned into disappointment. The flyers were a hoax — the result, police say, of a feud between two residents. But all was not lost.

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Hotel Goes Above and Beyond to Recover Guest's Family Heirloom

Taryn Thompson was astonished and grateful when strangers helped find her lost family heirloom. It was a special ring that her grandmother Louise Thompson left her after she passed away in 2007. As reported by WLEX 18 News, the western Kentucky student was attending a wedding in Lexington when she stopped into the Gratz Park Inn to freshen up. That's when she must have lost the ring… but, no one at the hotel could find it.

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Whole Foods to Build First Commercial Rooftop Greenhouse Atop Brooklyn Store

Whole Foods Market has partnered with Gotham Greens to build the nation's first commercial-­scale rooftop greenhouse for growing year-round local produce atop the store in Brooklyn beginning this fall.

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Texas Olive Garden Pays Couple's Tab Before Soldier Deploys

It had been a normal Sunday night for Dawn Ward, a waitress at the Olive Garden restaurant in Lubbock, Texas. Then, a married couple were seated and Ward thought they deserved ultra-generous care. They said they had a special event happening and they wanted to spend it here at Olive Garden, Ward said. And so I inquired what it was and they said that he was going to be deployed the next morning.