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'Full Upright and Locked Position': 7 (sometimes sobering) facts about air travel
From the facts about airline food to the truth about why bags get lost, writer and former FAA chief counsel Mark Gerchick takes a hard look at traveling by plane in "Full Upright and Locked Position."
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Top 10 states for clean tech
Clean Edge, a clean-tech research and advisory firm based in San Francisco and Portland, has ranked states for their leadership in clean tech. Here are its Top 10 picks:
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12 promising novels for spring 2013
Here are 12 spring 2013 fiction titles that we're looking forward to picking up.
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Get irrational: 3.14 things to do on Pi Day
March 14 is Pi Day, which celebrates the mathematical constant measuring the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter (beginning with 3.14). Pi Day is celebrated internationally, and in 2009 it was decreed an official holiday by the US House of Representatives. Here are 3.14 ways to celebrate.
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Meet the nine richest self-made women
Forbes has released its annual billionaires list, and nestled among the usual suspects were women who have made or helped make their own fortunes, in industries ranging from television to real estate to clothing. These are the nine richest self-made women on Forbes 2013 Billionaires List.
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Horizons New iPhones will ship on time, reports say
06/15/2009 01:00 am -
Horizons Update: The Facebook vanity URL landgrab
06/15/2009 01:00 am -
Horizons Scribd, the YouTube of e-books, signs major new deal
06/12/2009 01:00 am -
Bright Green How green are trains, public transportation, and hybrid cars? It depends.
06/09/2009 01:00 am -
US weighs options to free journalists in North Korea
A tougher stance toward Pyongyang may complicate efforts to negotiate the release of the two women, who were sentenced Monday to 12 years of hard labor.
06/08/2009 01:00 am -
Terrorism & Security North Korea sentences US journalists to 12 years
The regime found the two reporters guilty of unspecified 'grave' crimes and sentenced them to 'reform through labor.'
06/08/2009 01:00 am -
Horizons Apple unveils faster and cheaper iPhones
06/08/2009 01:00 am -
Horizons Apple gets faster and cheaper, but will more consumers bite?
06/08/2009 01:00 am -
Horizons Get a Palm Pre this weekend? Congratulations.
06/08/2009 01:00 am -
Can Twitter help fix San Francisco's potholes?
Residents can now "tweet" the city about public problems, part of growing efforts to use online and social networking tools to get better customer service.
06/06/2009 01:00 am -
Global News Blog North Korea silent on American journalists' trial
Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg met with Chinese officials in Beijing Friday after having met S. Korea's president in Seoul. Sanctions against the North were a central topic.
06/05/2009 01:00 am -
Editor's Blog Today's Monitor: Obama in Europe, North Korea sanctions, Sotomayor and the Senate
06/05/2009 01:00 am -
Horizons WWDC: What will Apple unveil next week?
06/05/2009 01:00 am -
The New Economy Top 10 job offers for mavericks
06/04/2009 01:00 am -
The Vote Giant smiling Ronald Reagan statue unveiled by Nancy Reagan
06/03/2009 01:00 am -
Opinion Redeem the prison generation
Treating prisoners like toxic social waste isn't working. Here's a better way.
06/03/2009 01:00 am -
Horizons iPhone to get an FM radio? Let the rumors fly!
06/03/2009 01:00 am -
Who wants to run California?
The state's budget is in shambles, but candidates are already lining up for the 2010 gubernatorial race. They include San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and former eBay chief Meg Whitman.
06/02/2009 01:00 am -
Joyful bohemian
American-born folk singer Grace has tapped a noncynical streak in her French audience.
06/01/2009 01:00 am -
Good ways to deliver bad news
Open talk, empathetic listening make staff cuts more than a cold exercise in cost saving.
05/29/2009 01:00 am -
The school lunchroom grows green
From kindergarten to college, school cafeterias become ecofriendly by banishing trays, growing veggies, and composting waste.
05/29/2009 01:00 am -
Horizons Google's big Wave (now with video!)
05/29/2009 01:00 am -
Gay marriage fight isn't over in California, activists vow
Legal challenges ensue in federal court, and plans are afoot for a 2010 ballot measure to undo Proposition 8.
05/28/2009 01:00 am -
Horizons Browsers are the new OS, says Google
05/27/2009 01:00 am -
Editor's Blog Today's coverage agenda: North Korea, Sonia Sotomayor, gay marriage
05/26/2009 01:00 am
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