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    By Sarah Gilbert

    | 11:00AM 3/14/2011
    The Easy-Bake Oven is falling victim to the fight against global warming. The incandescent light bulbs that heat the toy ovens are being phased out in 2012 in favor of energy-efficient compact fluorescents. But precisely because they are energy efficient, they don't get hot enough to bake a cookie.

    By Bruce Watson

    | 1:30PM 3/08/2011
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    By Sarah Gilbert

    | 11:00AM 9/30/2010
    GE and its products are part of the American iconography. Its founder was Thomas Edison, one of America's foremost thinkers, inventors, and tinkerers. His invention of the light bulb in 1876 marked the moment of GE's genesis. If you can say that light bulbs capture the spirit of American ingenuity,...