An online debate over global warming science has broken out after an unknown hacker broke into the e-mail server at a prominent climate-research center, stole more than a thousand e-mails about global warming and posted them online.
If only your body were a little more honest, figuring out what's wrong when you don't feel right would be so much easier. But often a symptom -- maybe it's a sore back, cracked lips, tingling in your legs -- has an odd or unexpected explanation.
This primer reminds you of what you can and can't recycle -- and why.
Next time you're sipping your favorite wine, examine the glass closely: If it's thick and greenish, it might have been the windshield of an old, junked car.
On an April day in Boulder, Colo., Michael Laine sat onstage in front of a large audience, struggling to hold back tears. That afternoon he was supposed to be presenting to the attendees of the Conference on World Affairs, but at the moment, Laine was finding it hard to concentrate. "Two hours ago I lost a $3 million building," he declared to the room. "And now I don't have a place to live."
We've found 15 water parks in your own backyard. Before the dreaded "are we there yet?" echoes from the back seat, you'll be in the parking lot.
It's 7 a.m. when I park in front of Jim Collins' house in Boulder, Colo. He's already out front, slim and wiry, his 50 years given away by nearly-white hair. Collins looks up from sorting piles of hooks, harnesses, ropes and cantilevered clasps. "Want to see where we're going?" he says. Collins is energized, caffeinated, enthused -- which seems to be his natural state. If he were a dog, he'd be a Jack Russell terrier.
I often get asked what I do during my free time. The nature of this job is such that there really isn't much downtime. I usually work from 8 a.m. until 9 p.m., and spend a few hours catching up on e-mail when I get home.
Stan Garnett says the new police task force has already met, and he's impressed – so far
Members of Congress wear two hats: one as Washington legislator, the other as listener and community leader back home.
An online debate over global warming science has broken out after an unknown hacker broke into the e-mail server at a prominent climate-research center, stole more than a thousand e-mails about global warming and posted them online.
If only your body were a little more honest, figuring out what's wrong when you don't feel right would be so much easier. But often a symptom -- maybe it's a sore back, cracked lips, tingling in your legs -- has an odd or unexpected explanation.
This primer reminds you of what you can and can't recycle -- and why.
Next time you're sipping your favorite wine, examine the glass closely: If it's thick and greenish, it might have been the windshield of an old, junked car.
On an April day in Boulder, Colo., Michael Laine sat onstage in front of a large audience, struggling to hold back tears. That afternoon he was supposed to be presenting to the attendees of the Conference on World Affairs, but at the moment, Laine was finding it hard to concentrate. "Two hours ago I lost a $3 million building," he declared to the room. "And now I don't have a place to live."
We've found 15 water parks in your own backyard. Before the dreaded "are we there yet?" echoes from the back seat, you'll be in the parking lot.
It's 7 a.m. when I park in front of Jim Collins' house in Boulder, Colo. He's already out front, slim and wiry, his 50 years given away by nearly-white hair. Collins looks up from sorting piles of hooks, harnesses, ropes and cantilevered clasps. "Want to see where we're going?" he says. Collins is energized, caffeinated, enthused -- which seems to be his natural state. If he were a dog, he'd be a Jack Russell terrier.
I often get asked what I do during my free time. The nature of this job is such that there really isn't much downtime. I usually work from 8 a.m. until 9 p.m., and spend a few hours catching up on e-mail when I get home.
Stan Garnett says the new police task force has already met, and he's impressed – so far
Members of Congress wear two hats: one as Washington legislator, the other as listener and community leader back home.
It is one of the most notorious cold cases in recent memory. A 6-year-old girl, a child of beauty and privilege, was found dead in the basement of her home in Boulder, Colorado, on the day after Christmas 1996.
Police in Boulder, Colorado, have told the father of JonBenet Ramsey that they are back on the case.
How can I describe my first weeks in Congress? A whirlwind? A circus? No -- a trip back to college.
Summer is over in the northern hemisphere, but it's been another chilling season for researchers who study Arctic sea ice.
"Voluntourism is not about martyrdom," says Christopher Hill, CEO of Hands Up Holidays, a London-based company that arranges high-end excursions that incorporate volunteering. "It's about making a difference, even if you're staying at a luxury hotel."
BOULDER, Colorado: 'Fearful to go into our future'
BOULDER, Colorado: 'Is it worth hanging in'
Someone tossed a firebomb into a fraternity house about a block from the University of Colorado, setting off a brawl in a nearby alley
Can a plague of beetles change the weather? That's one question researchers hope to answer in a four-year research program in Western forests that are being infested by pine mountain beetles, leading to the deaths of great swathes of trees
A new ad campaign by the Corn Refiners Association claims that high-fructose corn syrup is not as fattening as you think
The surging cost of gasoline and a desire for a greener commute are turning more people to electric bikes as an unconventional form of transportation
Prosecutors say new DNA tests have cleared JonBenet Ramsey's family in the 1996 killing of the 6-year-old beauty queen
The North Pole may be briefly ice-free by September as global warming melts away Arctic sea ice, according to scientists from the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado.
Introductions were a hasty formality when Christopher Wiggins and his family arrived, tousled and tired, at a Greyhound station in Florida in March. Wiggins' wife and three of their kids weren't merely meeting his aunt and uncle; they would be living with them indefinitely.
From Boston to Seattle, eight stores where you can buy smart -- and give back.
The Mitchell Report, released Thursday, linked some of baseball's best players to the use of performance-enhancing substances. So now what?
Do you want a dog who's a "couch potato" or a "free spirit"? A growing number of animal shelters are using tests to match prospective owners with just the right pet
As corporate America prepares to wrap up another year of doing business, office holiday parties loom large and so do the horror stories of parties past.
Your next hotel might not be a hotel. It could be a condo, a rental apartment or a home.
The chef who inspired the Soup Nazi character on "Seinfeld" makes a heck of a crab bisque, but a group of stewed investors says he's having problems expanding his popular stand into a franchise empire.
"We have met the enemy, and he is us," the comic-strip character Pogo said decades ago. A new analysis of last year's near-record temperatures in the United States suggests he was right.
Long workweeks -- up to 120 hours -- are common at the Boulder, Colo., offices of Crispin Porter & Bogusky. So the award-winning ad agency, known for inventive campaigns like Burger King's Subservient Chicken website and Virgin Atlantic's mock flight-safety cards, decided to look for an equally creative way to help employees with their work/life balance.
One Colorado county tries a novel capitalist approach to containing the spread of monster houses
The Securities and Exchange Commission opened an informal inquiry into online posts made under a pseudonym by Whole Food's CEO John Mackey, a newspaper reported Friday.
Team members react as David Beckham walks on to the field. -- Kurt, Appleton, Wi.
The living is richer when you're the boss. But you don't need to spend years climbing the corporate ladder if you start your own business. We've taken the first steps for you, talking to entrepreneurs and experts to find new business and franchise opportunities poised to capitalize on trends that will pay off now and in your golden years.
Does the infamous SI cover jinx extend to the web? Jerry G. from Boulder, Co. thinks so:
"Catch and Release" tells of Gray Wheeler (Jennifer Garner), a young woman whose fiance dies right before their marriage. In fact, the neat, unspecified demise-by-manly-accident, with its luxurious romantic pathos, is announced in Gray's voice-over in the first scene, a wedding that turns into a funeral.
Okay, so you probably haven't charged outrageous amounts of phony business expenses to your employer, like former Wal-Mart vice chairman Thomas Coughlin, No. 35 on Business 2.0's 101 Dumbest Moments in Business list. Or hit the "send" button on a mass mailing of racist e-mails, like (No. 59). But everybody makes mistakes, and sometimes they're bad enough - or just embarrassing enough - that slinking away to a different company where nobody knows you can seem like the only real option.
'Tis the season to be jolly, and it's also the time to go shopping for many Americans. From California to the Carolinas, Americans are braving crowds and long lines in stores as they gear up for a holiday season that seems to be starting earlier and earlier each year.
How did a stay-at-home mom start a business that she later sold to Crocs for $10 million? "It was an accident," says Sheri Schmelzer, 41, of Boulder, Colo.
You don't have to be in the path of a hurricane to understand the power of wind.
Dynamic Materials ranks no. 73 on Fortune's 2006 list of the 100 Fastest-Growing Companies. The Boulder, Colorado-based company saw profits rise at a rate of 42% and revenues grow 30% with a stock return of 208% on average annually over the past three years.
Boulder, Colorado, D.A. Mary Lacy cautioned the media this week to avoid jumping to conclusions on whether John Karr killed JonBenet Ramsey.
JonBenet Ramsey's body was discovered on December 26, 1996, in a storage room in the basement of her family's home in Boulder, Colorado.
QUESTION: I'm 43, my wife is 40, we earn $130,000 a year and we're trying to figure out if we're on the right track to retire when I turn 55. We have $350,000 in our 401(k)s, another $110,000 in a company pension plan, $12,000 in a Roth IRA and $20,000 in mutual funds, most of which is invested in a diversified group of stocks. We also have $100,000 invested in several individual stocks.
Patsy Ramsey, mother of slain 6-year-old JonBenet, died Saturday of ovarian cancer, her lawyer told CNN. She was 49.
Travel always provides a wealth of experiences. Have you ever had an interesting, crazy, amazing or bizarre incident whilst overseas on business? We want to hear about what you've been upto. Have your say with CNN.
Focus groups are fundamentally flawed: They're time-consuming, expensive, and unreliable, since participants often alter their opinions to fit in. Enter Umbria Communications, a startup based in Bo...
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It's autumn in Italy, when even soccer fans become preoccupied with something more important: food.
Punctuality-phobes may soon no longer be able to blame perennial lateness on slow-running watches following the invention of an atomic clock small enough to wear on your wrist.
Like ice cream and coffee before them, cornflakes and puffed oats are getting an upscale makeover. Cereality, a startup based in Boulder, Colo., is betting that consumer nostalgia for Cheerios and ...
With mortgage rates rising recently, do you think I should lock in a rate now, or do you think rates will level off and possibly come down a bit in the near future?
If any trade seems to have been doomed by the Internet, it's the travel agent's. Yet nearly a decade after the industry's death was foretold, there remain solid reasons to consult a good one.
If any trade seems to have been doomed by the Internet, it's the travel agent's. Yet nearly a decade after the industry's death was foretold, there remain solid reasons to consult a good one.
When Hope Thompson decided to pull up stakes in October 2000 and move from sunny Orlando to sometimes snowy Boulder (elevation 5,340 feet), some of her friends thought she was off her rocker.
Last May, we reported that Steve Demos' Boulder, Colo., company, White Wave, was on its way to ruling the soy milk market with its Silk brand. But the planned merger of the dairy world's top player...
I climb a sooty flight of stairs and open the wide, dimpled steel door to Gleason's Gym, a converted warehouse in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge. It's 7 A.M. on a Wednesday and barely 30 degrees...
Gregg Lehman is the chief financial officer for SCM Labs, a technology consulting company in Boulder, Colo. It's a small firm (employing just ten people) that's doing well in a hot market. So when ...
For our 12th annual ranking of the best places to live in America, we interviewed people in 500 households across the country about the factors that are most important in choosing a place to live. ...
When FORTUNE asked the question two issues ago, we unfortunately gave the wrong answers, due to incorrect data supplied by Moran Stahl & Boyer, a consulting firm specializing in business-location s...
Iowa City, Iowa--hardly famous as an intellectual capital--has a higher percentage of college graduates than any other city in the U.S., as measured by Moran Stahl & Boyer, a consulting firm specia...
All those stock options floating around Silicon Valley have long been considered the perfect motivator for a hungry, creative work force. But recently some acute observers have reflected on the dow...
What's the ultimate way to ensure that your product meets the idiosyncratic tastes of today's demanding consumers? Some San Francisco entrepreneurs think they've got the answer: Let the customers m...
Reaching a live person on the phone and winning the lottery often seem to carry similar odds. But all that may change if wireless business phones meet their much vaunted potential. The idea is that...
In 1989, Exabyte, a Boulder, Colorado, manufacturer of computer storage tape drives, hired Mike Kirchner, who is deaf, to work in its assembly plant. Any fears the company had about Kirchner's abil...
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How do climate scientists know the greenhouse effect will bring about the woes that they predict? They don't know to a total certainty. What they do know is based on half a dozen high-powered compu...
Smartfoods Inc. This two-year-old company makes some of the most addictive junk food in America: popcorn coated with natural cheddar cheese. Ken Meyers, 28, a campaign aide to a Connecticut Congres...
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