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01 / Azul > > For converting bus riders into frequent fliers. Brazilian-born David Neeleman, founder of Jet Blue, brought the low-cost airline model to his home country and tweaked it to fit its nuances

Preparing for international travel is unlike planning a business trip within one's own country.

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Photograph by Erin Patrice O'Brien Photograph by Erin Patrice O'Brien Inspired by Super Size Me director Morgan Spurlock's bold new documentary about the ubiquity of branding messages in our daily lives, we embark on our own no-holds-barred exploration of the relationship between content and advertising.

SodaStream now touts natural syrups and the eco-friendliness of homemade soda.

Art can change the world. Just ask the artists who have submitted works to Freedom to Create , an arts and culture foundation that leverages the power of art to address injustice in places where there is no freedom to express it otherwise. This Thursday, March 24, the organization is bringing an exhibition of some of the top selections from the 2010 Freedom to Create Prize--an annual competition for artists who address social injustice--to New York City.

By Risa Maeda TOKYO, March 22 (Reuters) - Japan's economy may not feel the harshest blow from this month's disasters until summer, when surging power demand could spark a new round of power blackouts in Tokyo and its neighbouring prefectures which account for 40 percent of the country's GDP.

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.style2 { COLOR: #881518 } < Back to Concierges' Guide to LondonAPSLEYS, A HEINZ BECK RESTAURANT "Very popular" afternoon tearoom is home to England’s first tea sommelier, Karl Kessab. The elegant establishment, within The Lanesborough hotel, also might be home to the country’s first gluten- and dairy-free tea service.

If the recent events in Japan were a movie, we'd say that the plot was too outlandishly catastrophic to be true--first an earthquake, then a tsunami, then a nuclear accident. Watching footage of entire neighborhoods being shoveled inland by roiling water, and knowing that those buildings and vehicles contained people, was horrifying.But while the citizens of Japan continue to struggle with their own personal hell, many

As Japanese military struggles to cool overheating fuel rods at the country’s damaged nuclear plant, some suggest a full meltdown might actually be happening somewhere else--in the corporate suites of Tokyo Electric Power Co. Tepco, as it’s known, is a for-profit utility that owns the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station and other plants and provides almost 35% of Japan’s electricity ( pdf ). And in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami that brought the country to nuclear crisis, the organization is turning into a lighting rod of political criticism.

This month marks the 100th anniversary of the completion of the Roosevelt Dam in Arizona. It was a major part of the Salt River project, which aimed to create hydroelectric power from the Salt River and make its surrounding lands cultivable. The dam was an engineering marvel and was built as part of the Reclamation Act passed in 1902, which sought to irrigate arid lands in the United States--about one-third of the country’s land at the time

Some attendees of SXSW might have wondered what Ric Grefé, the executive director of AIGA , was doing here. After all, the almost 100-year-old organization originally known as the American Institute of Graphic Artists had begun as a club for print designers, and Austin was currently hosting a gathering of thousands of proudly un-ephemerate creatives.

In 2010, CBSSports.com saw 8.3 million visitors check out their online streaming March Madness coverage, proving that technology plays a huge part in user behavior during three of the most popular weeks in sports. This also netted CBS $613.8 million in ad sales revenue

In the past few years, online crowdsourcing has emerged as an ultra-popular method of finding solutions to difficult problems such as infant mortality rates and out-of-control oil spills . Could crowdsourcing help Japan quell its nuclear disaster and help the country get back on its feet? The Global Innovation Commons , a repository of innovations that can be used because of patent expiration, abandonment, invalidity, or lack of in-country protection, has compiled a list of patent disclosures and open source technology that could be used as part of Japan's