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Determination to succeed was vital to Margaret Thatcher's drive, but left unchecked it led to her undoing. Meryl Streep personifies this leadership lesson in her latest movie.

By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine An Irish mathematician has used a complex algorithm and millions of hours of supercomputing time to solve an important open problem in the mathematics of Sudoku , the game popularized in Japan that involves filling in a 9x9 grid of squares with the numbers 1-9 according to certain rules. Gary McGuire of University College Dublin shows in a proof posted online on January 1 that the minimum number of clues--or starting digits--needed to complete a puzzle is 17; puzzles with 16 or fewer clues do not have a unique solution. [More]

When it comes to single malt, most people think of the Scottish Highlands. However, Scotland’s three remaining Lowland distilleries typically produce much gentler whiskies. Most notable of these is Auchentoshan (pronounced “ock-un-tosh-un”), the only distillery that uses triple distillation—a process normally associated with Irish whiskeys—to provide greater finesse to its ...

When it comes to single malt, most people think of the Scottish Highlands.

Last month a BBC news story made the Internet rounds, with a somewhat sensational headline declaring the “first Irish case of death” by spontaneous human combustion (SHC). The badly burnt body of a 76-year-old man was found in his Galway home on December 22, 2010, lying on his back with his head close to an open fireplace. There was no trace of accelerant, no evidence of foul play, and “forensic experts” concluded that the fire in the fireplace hadn’t caused the blaze.

One of the most iconic yet elusive pot-still Irish whiskeys has been the multiple –award-winning Redbreast 12-year-old, along with its even more evasive cousin, Redbreast 15-year-old. This triple-distilled whiskey had its origins in 1903 as an independent bottling by the Jameson distillery in Dublin for an Irish merchant whose hobby ...

Darren Clarke failed to make the cut at the Irish Open on Friday, two weeks after he won the British Open for his first major title

PGT: Rory McIlroy showed his temperamental side after blowing an early lead Thursday at the Irish Open, insulting a TV commentator and telling him to shut up.

PGT: Rory McIlroy showed his temperamental side after blowing an early lead Thursday at the Irish Open, insulting a TV commentator and telling him to shut up via Twitter.

KILLARNEY, Ireland (AP) -Jeev Milkha Singh of India upstaged Ireland's major winners, shooting an 8-under 63 for a three-shot clubhouse lead Thursday in the first round of the Irish Open.

KILLARNEY, Ireland (AP) -Colm Moriarty upstaged major winners Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell at the Irish Open on Thursday, shooting a 4-under 67 to take a surprise share of the early lead at his home tournament.

Which leaders should you have your eye on this year? Sheryl Sandberg, Justin Timberlake, and Mary Landrieu are just a few.

Businesses that go through incubators historically have close to a 90 percent survival rate. And today, every major city has incubators focused on getting tech-savvy start-ups off the ground. We've pinpointed some of the most productive, innovative, and nurturing start-up incubators in the country"be sure to keep an eye on their next classes of graduates.

Nearly 100 years after Joyce wrote his polyglot seminal work, are we any closer to a technological solution to breaking down the barriers of language? Not if the recent scuffle over Google Translate is any indication. Joyce and the Limits of the Twentieth Century In celebration of Bloomsday (June 16, the 107th anniversary of the fictional events that occur in his Ulysses), I'll reach beyond time, death, and the limits of my own or anyone else's knowledge to affirm that James Joyce would have adored Google Translate.

Thanks to the social web, you can now share anything with anyone anywhere in the world. Is this the end of hyperconsumption