A major winter storm bore down on the Great Plains on Wednesday night with the Minneapolis, Minnesota, area "right in the teeth" of it, CNN meteorologist Chad Myers said.
Many Americans love living in university towns, especially ones with big-time college football teams. One of the surprising attractions of these places is that they can be very affordable.
Investing in an electric utility is a lot like buying the Electric Company in Monopoly. Neither has huge growth potential, but both offer steady payouts: a reliable source of income during a recession or the beginning of a long game.
A storm uproots trees and sends mudslides onto roads in San Diego, California.
Kansas Citians disagreed on what to make of a homegrown memorial to fallen soldiers. But its destruction has outraged all
With a new book the controversial author takes on the sacred ground of the terror attacks and their aftermath
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THE BACKGROUND Carbon dioxide makes up nearly 80% of all greenhouse gases. More than a quarter of that CO2 comes from electrical power plants. That's why replacing plants that run on fossil fuels l...
The background: Carbon dioxide makes up nearly 80 percent of all greenhouse gases. More than a quarter of that CO2 comes from electrical power plants. That's why replacing plants that run on fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas with renewable power sources, even nukes, has emerged as a major plank in the campaign against global warming.
If President Roosevelt were around today, he might amend that famous line from his first inaugural address.
If long summer days have you dreaming of a lush rolling lawn, 5 Tips is going to tell you what you need to know to keep your grass growing gorgeously.
FSB: Pay It Forwardupdated: Wed Feb 01 2006 00:01:00
One beauty of the magazine business is that customers pay in advance. The money for a full year's subscription rolls in before the publisher has to deliver a single issue. Are you stuck in an indus...
The Times-Picayune of New Orleans printed this editorial in its Sunday edition, criticizing the federal government's response to Hurricane Katrina and calling on every FEMA official to be fired:
FSB: Welfare Farmingupdated: Wed Jun 01 2005 00:01:00
The soil of the Northwest's Palouse region is among the richest in the country. Much of it is sunk in and around outcroppings of Ice Age silt dunes; farmers and ranchers here sometimes work 50-degr...
Scattered rain was forecast in the Northeast early Monday, while isolated thunderstorms were possible along the Carolina and Georgia coast as a cold front moved across the region.
Iowa legislators are taking dead aim at one of the state's biggest problems: retaining young residents. A proposed tax break could put an extra $600, on average, in the pocket of every resident under 30 years old.
FSB: Turning Pointupdated: Tue Feb 01 2005 00:01:00
Tony Rogers is a member of the rosebud Sioux tribe who lives on the tribe's South Dakota reservation. He doesn't have an engineering degree, hasn't worked for a power station, and has never investe...
Treasury prices rose on Tuesday as high-flying oil prices fueled worries about a drop in consumer spending that could put a chill on the U.S. economy.
IBM and Microsoft want you. Again. Over the past decade, these two tech titans have made more promises about how they're going to serve the small business market than a cheating husband begging not...
A few summers ago, I was driving around North Dakota with my girlfriend, researching a Lost in America article about that overlooked, underrated state. We focused primarily on historic and cultural...
No matter how much you like your job, wouldn't it be great to be able to disappear from work for a month or two--or how about a year?--no strings attached? Vacations are nice, but a sabbatical...no...
Fortune: Doug Burgum updated: Mon May 01 2000 00:01:00
The 43-year-old Burgum grew up in North Dakota and was a McKinsey consultant before he became chairman and CEO of Great Plains, which develops business-management and e-business software in Fargo.
ON THE REZ by Ian Frazier Farrar Straus & Giroux, 295 pages
One of our most habitual, reflexive cultural tendencies is to rank things--from best to worst, from most popular to least popular and so on. This is fine if you're near the top of the list, but not...
It shouldn't have bothered me when Iridium, the satellite-telephone company, filed for Chapter 11 protection. I have no current plans to visit the Gobi Desert, and my GSM phone works everyplace but...
As a travel columnist, I tend to spend lots of time looking at maps, and this often turns out to be very educational. While recently scanning a map of Nebraska, for example, I noticed that there's ...
The betting odds stood as high as 25 to 1 against Evander Holyfield when he entered the ring last November to take on Mike Tyson. Detractors were saying the 215-pound Atlanta resident was too nice,...
When it comes to your career, you needn't fret much about next year's slow-mo predictions. Granted, after the strongest employment growth in seven years--a robust 2.1% in '96--the next 12 months ar...
For those of you not totally obsessed with the O.J. trial, the really big news has been that American manufacturing is undergoing a renaissance. Once again, the U.S. has become the world's stronges...
ARE YOU KEEPING your customers? You'd better be, because it's far cheaper to hold on to the ones you have than to acquire new ones. A happy contingent inside your tent lessens your need to beat the...
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