Today's Takeaways: Corporate Consciousness, Adrenaline Junkies, and a New Avant-Garde Novel
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Participants go through the Kiss of Mud obstacle at the Tough Mudder event at Raceway Park on October 21, 2012 in Englishtown, New Jersey.
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