• 10 Bizarre Athlete Injuries

    If you’re a professional athlete, injuries are almost guaranteed. Whether it’s a repetitive stress injury from tennis, a torn ACL from football or something more brutal like a hockey stick to the face, sports injuries are simply a part of life for the professional athlete. In a twist, the New Orleans Saints were sanctioned by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell on March 21 for a bounty program that paid players to injure specific members of opposing teams. The penalties included a one-year suspension for head coach Sean Payton. Those who spend their hours on the field may court blunt force trauma, but that doesn’t mean they can’t injure themselves off the field as well. Yes, even professional athletes suffer the same stubbed toes, paper cuts and tumbles down the stairs as the rest of us, and sometimes he or she suffers off-field injuries so bizarre that they become noteworthy. What follows is a list of professional athletes whose boo-boos came while they were off-duty. In some cases, the injuries cost the teams the athlete’s services, and in other cases they simply cost the athlete his dignity. Read ahead and see which athletes had the costliest encounters with inanimate objects when they were supposed to be safe and sound. Read More ›

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  • Fans Vs Facebook: User-Generated Protests

    Aside from voicing their discontent on Facebook itself, many users have taken to the Internet and produced witty, user-generated responses to Facebook’s changes, in the form of satirical and critical images. CNBC.com collected a number of the best images, reflecting user reactions to Facebook’s changes. Click here to see the full list of user-generated protests: http://www.cnbc.com/id/44626940

    • Darth Vader

      Darth Vader

      Luke, I am your Facebook.

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  • Highest Paid College Degrees

    Culture Buzz As companies remain focused on higher-performing employees and businesses growth, many employers are looking for employees with technical skills. See what college degrees are pulling in the best paychecks.

    • 10. Systems Engineering

      10. Systems Engineering

      Average starting salary: $58,909  The average offer to information sciences and systems graduates rose 4.4 percent. There are more than 300 engineering schools in the country, with MIT, or Massachussetts Instuitte of Technology, ranking the highest, according to a study done by US News & World Report . About 45 percent of all graduate students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, roughly 2,800 students, are enrolled in the School of Engineering, and about a third of all faculty members teach at the school.  Anthony J. Vizzini, dean of Western Michigan University's College of Engineering & Applied Sciences, says that engineering is not a discipline that is appropriate for just anyone.  "Engineers have to be strong in math, science, and communication skills, and the best engineers have a broad knowledge of society as a whole," adds Vizzini.

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  • America’s Highest Paying Jobs

    The salary of a profession is among the most compelling factors for many individuals deciding what career path to follow, what degree to peruse or even where to live. So, what are the highest paying jobs in the country?

    • 10. Financial Manager

      10. Financial Manager

      Average annual salary: $116,970
      Current employment: 478,940  Financial managers can be involved in a range of activities, including accounting, investing, banking, insurance, securities and other financial concerns of a branch, office or department, according to the BLS. The highest average salaries can be found in New York ($155,600), New Jersey ($136,960), Delaware ($134,790) and California ($130,040).

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  • 10 Most Divorced States In America

    Culture Buzz Are you living in a state with one the highest rates of divorce in America?

    • 10. Maine

      10. Maine

      (4.3 divorces per 1000 people)
      Maine is the only state in New England to appear in the list of states with the highest incidence of divorce. In fact, its the only one in the entire Northeast. Brad Wilcox, an Associate Professor of Sociology, and Director of the University of Virginias National Marriage Project, partially chalks this up to economic factors.  "The issue is more about the working-class composition of the Maine population," he says . Bill Cote, a divorce lawyer in Lewiston, agrees. "We are a poor state in many respects," he says. "Financial pressures really wreak havoc on the sustainability of a marriage unit."

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  • Made In China: 10 Business Fakes

    Culture Buzz China has become known as the epicenter for producing a wide variety of counterfeit and bootlegged consumer products, but a trend has emerged over the past few years of faking full retail operations.

    • Fake Apple Store

      Fake Apple Store

      Recently, the discovery of illegitimate Apple stores in several Chinese cities sparked controversy both in China and the U.S. The fake Apple store.

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