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Sujit Bhattacharya that knew he felt sluggish and had trouble putting on his socks and shoes. One day, when he tried on a pair of size 30 shorts, his wife pointed out that they fit only under his belly.

But it took bad news from his doctor, and a hard time from friends, to motivate him to get to a healthier weight.

Survey by research firm AIIM finds that people have a hard time doing their jobs in part because of the difficulty of finding company information online.

Rescue workers are having a hard time getting heavy equipment to isolated towns and villages in Southwestern China after Monday's earthquake.

Thousands of residents are still buried beneath buildings, and survivors are worried about the after-effects of the disaster.

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AMD has revamped its server processor roadmap with plans to jump to six and then 12 cores in the first half of 2010, but the larger question is whether the company can actually deliver.

Q: After 20 years of working, the last nine with the same major corporation, I wanted to try something new.

I went with a smaller firm whose president hired me to build a new division. However, the promised staffing support isn’t coming through, and I’m having a hard time adjusting to the “seat of the pants” decision-making.

AP - Dogs may have a hard time wrapping their paws around this one: Robotic competition is nipping at their heels in the man's-best-friend department.

For a year now, the United States has had a special program to resettle Iraqis -- translators and others -- who've helped American interests in that country.

Some of those who have made it to the U.S. are having a hard time finding suitable jobs.

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Two years ago, Phill Novak weighed 387 pounds. Reality hit at a Pittsbugh Steelers game when Novak went to smoke a cigarette and had a hard time catching his breath.

He decided to get to work on his weight -- and has lost almost 200 pounds.