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Coke CEO to speak at Eggs and Enterprise breakfast

2015-01-15 02:50:28| Beverages - Topix.net

John Brock, chairman and chief executive officer of Coca-Cola Enterprises, will be the keynote speaker for the Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce's upcoming Eggs and Enterprise breakfast. Scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 20 at the Atlanta Athletic Club in Johns Creek, the meeting is being sponsored by the North Fulton Community Improvement District and Progress Partners of North Fulton Atlanta.

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Humanity sniffs its first comet: Sadly, it stinks of rotten eggs, cat pee, and stale beer

2014-10-24 16:44:48| Extremetech

It turns out that comet 67P, the comet that is currently being stalked by the ESA's Rosetta spacecraft, stinks. If you just so happened to be in whiff range of the comet, you would be treated to a fantastic "perfume" (the ESA's words, not mine) that smells like a combination of rotten eggs and horse urine, with a soupçon of stale alcohol and suffocating formaldehyde thrown in for good measure. In the words of the ESA, 'If you could smell the comet, you would probably wish that you hadnt.'

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The great equalizer: Facebook, Apple now paying for women to freeze their eggs

2014-10-15 16:30:04| Extremetech

Facebook and Apple have become two of the first major companies to offer an interesting perk for female employees: Egg freezing. Since January this year, women at Facebook have had the option of having their eggs harvested and frozen, for future in-vitro fertilization (IVF) -- and from January 2015, women at Apple will be granted the same benefit. Is this just the next phase in the Silicon Valley "perks arms race," or, from a more cynical perspective, is it just a way to keep female employees focused on the prize?

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