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One of the first things I did Friday morning when I saw coverage of President Obama's meeting with tech leaders in California Thursday night was search for pictures or video. Not of Obama, or Mark Zuckerberg or Eric Schmidt. I wanted to see how Steve Jobs looked.

Insomnia is bad news for software engineers' mental health and deserves greater attention, according to the authors of a study in India.

Movement is the key -- and is one of the most difficult things a white-collar worker can do. These gadgets, apps, and sneaky tricks can help.

It looks like a cigarette (right down to the glowing red tip) and delivers that nice dose of nocotine like a cigarette, but proponents say electronic cigarettes are a healthy and cost effective alternative to smoking. Ooh boy.

In the interest of semiscientific inquiry--and because I'll eat just about anything to put food on the table (wait a minute...)--I took a look at a host of performance enhancers from the mainstream to the exotic to the just plain wacky. My mission: to see which ones provided a boost without inducing psychosis. For each product, I ingested a standard serving in the morning, in lieu of coffee. Enduring the resulting jitters, shakes, nausea, hallucinations, palpitations, and heebie-jeebies, I sweated out the bad stuff to bring you the good stuff.

As we get older, we realize what a surprisingly big part of our happiness simple fitness and health habits play. A growing number of sites help people to manage their diet, exercise, and health issues, and give them a way to rap with others doing the same. Following are the best health sites we know of.