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A woodworker claims he came up with a safer tablesaw. So why doesn't the tool industry want it? (more)

Most entrepreneurs want to get business, not turn it away. But sometimes a customer isn't worth keeping. (more)

More small firms are using paid Internet search to boost their online sales. (more)

A North Carolina manufacturer rides the falling dollar to international success. (more)

A biotech startup figured out how to cut federal red tape and become the first U.S. company to license cancer drugs from Castro's Cuba. (more)

FSB fine-tunes an international handicraft business. (more)

After an FSB makeover, a landscaper finds greener pastures playing pro poker. (more)

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Away from the corporate-owned Strip, you can still find a few pockets of indie authenticity. (more)

An entrepreneur stages Shakespeare for the masses. (more)

At the new, independently owned Windswept Dunes course, you're either a big hitter or a frequent hitter. (more)

The new H3 doesn't measure up to its big brothers. (more)

Crop subsidies, defended as essential to the survival of family farms, instead are destroying them, along with entire rural communities. (more)

How does the most powerful small-business lobbyist prevail over the opinion polls? (more)

If you got too sick to work, what would happen to your company? (more)

You won't believe what happened when we tried to spend big at a store. (more)

Just when did my cellphone get so ambitious--and is there any stopping it? (more)