Young people are saving the snow for Christmas – or not
Back in February, when I was a senior at Brown University, I spoke to about 130 ski students on a panel during the Brown Ski Touring Symposium and ended up talking about the need…
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Pfizer to offer cheap HIV drug Sustiva in India
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption World Health Organisation guidelines allow the global sale of the drug for a discount Drug giant Pfizer is to allow the manufacture and sale of its HIV drug…
Explosion outside Liverpool hospital was a terrorist incident, UK police say
Police confirmed explosion on the ship Sir Thomas More that was not accidental after initial findings suggested suspicious container blast had ripped through building Explosion outside Liverpool hospital was a terrorist incident, UK police…
World’s Best Cheese: The definitive list
Written by By Nick Tollett, CNN In the leading light is a European spread known as cream, with Melange from France topping the poll. Melange dates back to the Middle Ages, when cheese was…
Clooney calls racist ‘Rust’ uproar ‘ridiculous’
Hollywood stars defended an actor’s character who yells “Rust” at the top of his lungs when he fires up his car for the first time. George Clooney said Monday it was “insane” for somebody…
Southeast Canadian farmers rescued by special flood-rescuing felines
Written by Staff Writer With a month’s worth of rain in just two days, some Canadian farmers might be thinking twice about investing in artificial irrigation systems for the season. In a photograph of…
New York State Approves Plans to Expand Medicaid
Photo New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said on Monday that he had signed into law a measure intended to extend Medicaid coverage to as many as 400,000 adults. The measure, called the New…
Rising gas prices cut 30% out of Germany’s GDP
Berlin, Germany, December 11th, 2017:Gas prices in Europe jumped and proved more than the price of oil, as the German government just announced a 60 day suspension of the approval of the pipeline project,…
Tesla Model X in autopilot mode when it crashed, regulator says
A Tesla Model X Model S crashed in Texas on 26 September, and investigators concluded the Model X was in autopilot mode when it hit a truck, but that the Autopilot feature was not…
Indy Ski Pass: the most flexible way to ski
While it can be fun to find the perfect activities for an active lifestyle, there’s no getting around the fact that most of us can’t break the bank – which is why choosing to…