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As savvy travelers seek more adventure opportunities, cruise lines are responding by charting a course to ever more beautiful — and remote — corners of the map.

South Korea is already light years ahead of the U.S.

Hyper-growth companies often credit a culture of innovation as their primary driver of success. They deploy creative thinking to attack problems big and small

By Natasha Gilbert of Nature magazine Forests are vital to the livelihoods of millions of people in developing countries, providing on average more than one-fifth of their annual income, according to data presented today at a meeting in London.

What are the major milestones in productivity throughout history? Here's a timeline of key events that helped increase human efficiency, including the commercial diary, Henry Ford's Model T car, and the invention of the world wide web. 1791 Benjamin Franklin’s posthumous autobiography described the founding father’s system for the pursuit of “Order”.

London is home to the largest number of Old Master paintings dealers in the world, and the city celebrates its abundance with Master Paintings Week taking place July 1–8. Almost two dozen galleries, many British-based, some not, will participate in this third edition of the event.

Kevin Systrom launched popular photo-sharing app Instagram in October--and already it boasts around 5 million users. By comparison, it took years for startups such as Facebook and Twitter to reach that growth

By connecting conservation with wealth, Blue Ventures has found a way to convince fishing communities in the developing world that saving fish doesn't mean starvation--it means getting rich. There are not, in fact, always more fish in the sea. That we have overfished our oceans to near the point of no return has been rehashed over and over now for years.

September 11th caused two friends and co-workers to rethink their career and take the step to start a business. As we process applications for the 2011 Inc. 500 | 5000, we thought it would be worthwhile to shine a spotlight on some of the companies that are vying to appear on our ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in the United States .

The InterContinental Porto–Palacio das Cardosas opens June 15 in Porto, Portugal, and it’s the country’s first InterContinental location. Situated in the old city of Porto—a UNESCO World Heritage Site and onetime outpost of the Roman Empire—the hotel offers guests luxury accommodation in convenient proximity to the famous port wine lodges ...

Four players have taken their turns at No. 1, the highest number between U.S. Opens in the 25-year history of the world ranking

Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from Mara Hvistendahl's book , Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls and the Consequences of a World Full of Men. The technology that ultimately became the dominant method of sex selection around the world began as a tool for navigation. The story of ultrasound dates to 1794, when an Italian biologist curious about how bats find their way in the dark discovered sonar, or the fact that distance can be determined by bouncing sound waves off a faraway object and measuring how long it takes for the waves to ricochet back

PGT: The U.S. Open is using the top of the world ranking for one of its star groups next week at Congressional. Luke Donald, Lee Westwood and Martin Kaymer will play together the first two rounds

What the world needs isn't more ideasit's better, more innovative systems for executing them, says author and ChangeLabs founder Peter Sheahan. More than a decade ago Peter Sheahan left his accounting job to work in a pub and manage a hotel in Sydney, Australia. Managing the staff of about 35 wasn't easy—especially difficult was relaying expectations to younger staff members

Apple's proposed new "spaceship" building in Cupertino features curved glass and an engineering challenge that makes solving the antennagate and white iPhone problems look cinchy. Apple's proposed new " spaceship " building in Cupertino may be made largely of huge sheets of curved glass. It's an aesthetic choice, and a very expensive one.