Archive for December, 2011
Vast Titanic collection to be sold off in one lot
NEW YORK | Thu Dec 29, 2011 3:34pm EST NEW YORK (Reuters) – The biggest collection of Titanic artifacts is to be sold off as a single lot in an auction timed for the 100th anniversary in April of the sinking of the famed ocean liner. The 5,500 item collection, valued in 2007 at $189 [...]
New Year’s Day to come early as Samoa leaps ahead
CANBERRA | Thu Dec 29, 2011 8:21pm EST CANBERRA (Reuters) – If you are reading this on Friday you cannot be in Samoa. Friday, December 30, has been cut this year for the tiny South Pacific island nation as it ditched a time-zone alliance with the United States and moved its time zone 24 hours [...]
Management Tip of the Day: Don’t worry about your first job
BOSTON | Wed Dec 28, 2011 1:36pm EST BOSTON (Reuters) – New graduates should remember that no matter what job you choose today, you build skills and create options for the long-term, Harvard Business Review: the learn, earn, contribute trifecta. The Management Tip of the Day offers quick, practical management tips and ideas from Harvard [...]
Spas focus on coaching, gaming, feet in 2012
By Patricia Reaney NEW YORK | Thu Dec 29, 2011 8:49am EST NEW YORK (Reuters)- – Beauty coaching, online wellness, snow showers and sound massages are just a few of the luxury treatments clients at spas around the globe will be experiencing in 2012. Massages and facials will still be big draws for the $250 [...]
Now or never for workers as "Elvis" the croc strikes again
SYDNEY | Wed Dec 28, 2011 1:36pm EST SYDNEY (Reuters) – Two workers at a reptile park near Sydney were all shook up Wednesday, running for their lives when a 500 kg crocodile named Elvis suddenly lunged at them, making off with their lawnmower. Five-meter long Elvis was already not exactly a hunk of burning [...]
