Johanna Barnowski was just 11 years old when she became the All American National Champion in the Soap Box Derby stock division in 2008. Thursday night, with her entire family watching, her winning car was moved into the racing Hall of Fame at Quaker Steak and Lube.
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A twinkling menorah or blinking tree is the ideal subject for camera-toss photography, the increasingly popular art of flipping your shooter into the air to produce light-trail imagery.
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The Large Hadron Collider, a $6 billion particle accelerator, is so large that a recent status report lists 2,900 authors. Robert Lee Hotz reports on how the project is a prime example of how scientists are inventing new ways to foster teamwork through the Internet and shared data bases around t...
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AOL announces will lay off a third of its staff as part of its restructuring. Barron.com’s Eric Savitz comments on the news and the company's efforts to reinvent itself with Kelsey Hubbard and Simon Constable in the News Hub.
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<p>The first Dell smartphone to go on sale will be the Mini 3i, which will be available in China this December for about $700. The Linux-based Open Mobile System will be used on the phones sold in China, and Dell is expected to release the handset elsewhere in the world using Google’s Andro...
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Blue Nile CEO Diane Irvine answers reader-submitted questions about the diamond industry, including how the online diamond retailer stands out from the competition and whether now is the right time to buy.
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