Jamaica benefited from a nearly double-digit increase in cruise ship arrivals during the most recent, busy winter season, the Caribbean country's tourism minister announced Tuesday.
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Jim Furyk noticed there were several more politicians and decision makers on hand than usual when he arrived at Harbour Town Golf Links. And the Heritage defending champion hopes that means good things for the tournament's future.
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Read More »Amazon Unveils Kindle Lending With 11,000 Libraries: Does This Mark The End Of The Local Library?
Today, Amazon announced a new feature for its Kindle e-reader called Library Lending, which will enable users to borrow e-books from more than 11,000 libraries in the U.S. The feature will launch later this year, and be available for all Kindle generations
Read More »First Came iPhone’s Thunder, Now GPS Makers Ride The Lightning
With the rise of GPS-enabled touchscreen phones like the iPhone, you'd think that the future for stand-alone GPS makers looks bleak. Except that these companies are being surprisingly agile, and are embracing smartphones to make the best GPS navigators ever.
Read More »What Apple’s Balance Sheet Will Reveal About The Tech Industry
Apple's due to reveal all in its second-quarter call tonight at 5 p.m. EDT. The statistics will be telling, since they encompass the Verizon iPhone and the iPad 2's early sales
Read More »Trove, WaPo Labs’s Personalized News Site, Plays Hot-Or-Not With Articles
Also: Barack Obama will be a fan of the Washington Post Company product, according to a begging-to-be-viral promotional video. The Washington Post Company gets with the times in a big way today, with Trove, a personalized news aggregation site. Trove personalizes news in a couple of ways--it uses Facebook Connect to cull information about your interests, and it offers pairs of articles for you to choose from, Hot-or-Not style
Read More »Video: Catherine Zeta-Jones gets candid on Bipolar struggle
Catherine Zeta-Jones is speaking out in People Magazine on her treatment at a mental health facility for bipolar II disorder, following husband Michael Douglas' battle with cancer. CBSNews.com's Ken Lombardi reports.
Read More »Calcium supplements may increase heart risk
Study shows increased risk of heart attacks for women taking calcium supplements
Read More »Obama Facebook Friends Zuck Bunch In Palo Alto, iPhone Tracking Movement, Social Media In College Admissions, And More…
The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. Obama To Host Facebook Town Hall At 1:45 p.m
Read More »Tablet Wars: Intel Joins Game
For years, PCs were often referred to as Wintel machines. The "tel" coming from Intel's role as Windows's preferred chipmaker-in-chief
Read More »Woman explains record 52 plastic surgery operations
Cindy Jackson, 55, tells TODAY’s Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb that her “highly developed sense of aesthetics” encouraged her desire to achieve “classic proportion” through 52 different surgical procedures.
Read More »Paging Dr. 420: Which states let you blaze for better health?
Many states now permit medical use of marijuana, but limits vary widely on who can use and how much they can possess
Read More »Medical marijuana: Which 15 states permit pot?
Which places permit pot for patients? You might be surprised at some that do
Read More »Life-size Barbie’s shocking dimensions (PHOTO): Would she be anorexic?
College student who battled eating disorders creates life-size doll to help other women
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