Effective spring 2012, the minimum drinking age for all alcoholic beverages on Royal Caribbean ships sailing from South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia and New Zealand will be 18.
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Feed SubscriptionA Video Visualization Of Earth’s Fires From Space
Though the Texas fires dominated the news this summer, they were not America's largest. NASA's fire detection satellites are useful beyond just generating pretty but painful pictures.
Read More »Japanese Team Wins Australian Solar Car Race
CANBERRA (Reuters) - A team from Japan won a world solar car race through Australia's outback on Thursday, after battling more than 3,000 km (1,800 miles) of remote highways, dodging kangaroos and other wildlife and avoiding a bushfire. Race officials said the team from Tokai University, near Tokyo, finished the race from the northern city of Darwin to the southern city of Adelaide at about noon on Thursday. [More]
Read More »The Truth About Fracking (preview)
Is fracking polluting our drinking water?
Read More »iPhone 4S Sales Top 4 Million, RIM To Offer Free Apps For Outage, Wireless Users To Get Overage Alerts
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. AT&T, Verizon, Sprint Report Record iPhone 4S Sales
Read More »Facebook Faces Wire Tap Lawsuit, Google Plans Music Store, Samsung’s New Phone Due Oct. 19
Wiretap Affair Could Oust Murdochs . A key shareholder group is maneuvering to oust Rupert Murdoch and his two sons from the management of News Corp., calling for the board to eject the men and for an independent investigation into the phone hacking scandal --the aftereffects of which are still echoing around the world.
Read More »Occupy London On October 15, Apple Wins Against Samsung In Australia, Ebay To Add Image Recognition
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Angry Birds Maker Plans Happy $1B 2012 IPO . Rovio, maker of the insanely popular Angry Birds casual game line, is said to be planning its
Read More »Drought-Stricken Pacific islands Down to Last Few Days of Water
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A drought-stricken Pacific island nation is down to its last few days of water, prompting a mercy dash by New Zealand and Australia with water-making equipment. Tuvalu, the world's fourth-smallest nation sitting just below the Equator, has declared a state of emergency and is rationing water. [More]
Read More »The Ethnic Health Advantage
For decades scholars and public health officials have known that people with greater income or formal education tend to live longer and enjoy better health than their counterparts who have less money or schooling. The trend holds true wherever researchers look--in poor countries or rich ones, in Europe, Asia or the Americas--but two notable exceptions stand out.
Read More »Nobel winner thought prize call was ‘student joke’
When a Swedish voice came down the line informing him he had a "very important call" Tuesday night, Australia's newest Nobel laureate Brian Schmidt assumed it was an elaborate undergraduate joke.
Read More »Let Them Eat Ethanol and Cash
How biofuels and speculation are driving food prices to scary new heights. Why have global food prices spiked not once, but twice in the last three years, raising the specter of famine and triggering worldwide food riots-- including the Arab Spring? Many explanations have been floated, including climate change-related droughts in Australia, volatile oil prices, “food security” export restrictions, and last but not least, feeding China’s strategic pork reserve
Read More »24-Hour Gore Fest: Former Veep’s Climate Reality Project Begins Tonight
A presentation about the connection between climate and weather in 24 locations around the world, every hour for 24 hours, culminating tomorrow with a presentation by Al Gore himself. Watch and learn. It's been five years since former vice president Al Gore managed to delight the world with what was essentially a feature-length slideshow
Read More »How UGG Got Its Y Chromosome Back
UGG boots, the fuzzy-lined sheepskin boots best known for warming the toes of female celebs as they trot around Aspen and college girls as they trudge from class to class, are trying to recapture the interest of their original customer: dudes. As UGG Australia prepares to introduce its largest assortment ever of men’s styles for fall, the company has enlisted Patriots quarterback Tom Brady as the new face of UGGs for men.
Read More »"Spartacus: Blood and Sand" star dies from non-Hodgkin lymphoma
Actor, 39, died in Sydney, Australia, Sunday, September 11 - 18 months after being diagnosed with disease
Read More »Leadership Is About Taking The Long View
We have become chained to a short-term outlook--leaving America to fall behind in the global marketplace. We continue our Leadership Hall of Fame series, a year-long look at the top business books and authors, with an excerpt from the 20th Anniversary edition of On Becoming A Leader (1989) by Warren Bennis.
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