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I’VE been with this company, which manufactures forklifts in Lexington, Ky., my entire career. We were successful for years, even opening a manufacturing division in Korea. Then, in 2000, we went bankrupt and struggled until a South Korean company, ... [full story]

BEIJING — The discus gold medalist clutched a large can of sardines, spun and flung it as far as he could. It sailed past the compact disc, the round cracker, the Oreo and the cabbage head. Skip to next paragraph ... [full story]

IT'S been a month since someone swiped my debit card account data and went on a two-day, ,772.26 shopping spree. While the bank reimbursed the money, and the nightmare seems to have passed - thus far no one has bought ... [full story]

Correction Appended SAN MATEO, Calif. — If the initial public offering for NetSuite shares goes as planned later this week, Evan Goldberg will have come a long way from the overcrowded Silicon Valley apartment that served as the company’s ... [full story]

NOT so long ago Mykonos, one of the Aegean’s most popular islands, onto which jumbo cruise ships deposit as many as 15,000 day-trippers a day, was awash in just about everything but glamour. The Greek island was easily dismissed as ... [full story]

THE Feast of San Gennaro is scheduled to take over Little Italy from Sept. 14 to 24, and it will no doubt attract its usual swarm of tourists and Italian-Americans craving sausage, grappa and nostalgia at Manhattan's version of Epcot's ... [full story]

IT’S been more than eight years since “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” made its first foray into presidential politics with the presciently named Indecision 2000, and the difference in the show’s approach to its coverage then and now provides ... [full story]

LAS VEGAS — A helicopter flight training school run by a prominent Republican fund-raiser in Nevada has declared bankruptcy, leaving students in 18 states responsible for hundreds of thousands of dollars in uninsured student loans. Skip to next paragraph ... [full story]

AFTER carefully planning the family vacation and spending extra money on activities to keep the kids entertained, the last thing a parent wants to hear one of them say is “I’m bored” — in that familiar, oh-so-jaded tone. ... [full story]

Jerry Wexler, who as a reporter for Billboard magazine in the late 1940s christened black popular music rhythm and blues, and who as a record producer helped lead the genre to mainstream popularity, propelling the careers of Ray Charles, Wilson ... [full story]