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Internship Insider has focused on giving readers ideas about how and where to pursue internships, and to encourage people to think creatively about these "practice'' work experiences. As summer winds down and I say goodbye to my own intern, whose assistance has been invaluable to me in recent...

It's barely been a week since a media frenzy marked the public launch of Bloom Energy, which makes a mini power plant known as Bloom Box for homes and businesses. Now, as critics take a closer look at the technology, it seems the bloom is off the box. Kleiner Perkins, the VC firm that backed the project, is learning a lesson about the pitfalls of investing in early-stage clean energy companies -- and raising the question of who should be backing basic energy research.

"Uh, sir? I'm sorry, but your card has been declined." It's a phrase I've grown all too familiar with. This time, I'm in 7-Eleven, and I've just suffered the indignity of having my debit card turned down over the purchase of a 99-cent Slim Jim beef stick. My brain pleads for me to walk away,...

Teenagers and college students have the time to become acclimated with their chosen field, and because of this, the search for summer internships is on the rise. However, students are faced with low availability or the other alternative – the unpaid internship. At this point the decision...