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"It was the biggest shock in my life," said Austrian millionaire Karl Habeder, "when I realized how horrible, soulless and without feeling the five-star lifestyle is." So he's giving away all his money. Every penny, trading in his two luxury homes for a mountain hut and a bedsit in the city. "My...

Would you like to suffer sleep deprivation, live with unstable people and be publicly humiliated in front of millions on national television? Me neither. But for those who do, now there's the The New York Reality TV School. No, it's not a weekly broadcast about a New York public school...

Be your own boss. Travel the world. Sip umbrella drinks on the beach. Sounds like a dream life, right? For some savvy entrepreneurs like Colin Wright, it's simply another day at work. When the branding-focused designer realized all he needed for his business was a laptop, he decided to take his...

It's official - the words "Supreme Court Justice" are an oxymoron. Or just moron, period. Thanks to the Supremes' recent decision giving corporations free reign to purchase politicians, now we can look forward to product placement in the Oval Office, logos emblazoned on the walls of Congress and...

I've got issues. Email issues. You know how it is -- you obsessively check your inbox, hoping there's some life-changing opportunity not sent by a Nigerian, then get overwhelmed by the time-sucking correspondence of friends who seem to have WAY too much free time. And suddenly you're 200 emails...

As one of the nation's underemployed, naturally my new year's resolution is to get un-underemployed, perhaps even overemployed. But since this was also my resolution last year, I better go about it differently in 2010. Luckily, I subscribe to an invaluable service called Help a Reporter Out, which...

Since the recession began, we've all been tightening our belts, but only metaphorically. As our finances have grown leaner, Americans' bellies continue to grow larger. Therefore, the question of how to increase net worth while decreasing net girth has been on my mind for a while -- like about 20...

The restaurant industry should have seen it coming. After all, when President Obama was Candidate Arugula he actually lost weight by avoiding fatty photo-ops, going so far as to order pancakes to go. (I know, who eats take-out pancakes? No one. Which was exactly the point.)I can relate. I used to...