Cruises for those who want something different (San Francisco Chronicle)This might come as a shock, but not every cruise is all about rum-laden umbrella drinks, 24/7 bingo, "The Love Boat" theme on steel drum and a general atmosphere devoid of culture and, well, any thought much deeper than "I'll have the lobster and the steak."...

FIRST STRIKE: Pickwick fast bowler Tino Best (second from right) celebrating the first wicket in Division 1 cricket at ... (Daily Nation)Published on: 8/9/2009. ESA FIELD RUM PICKWICK endured an up-and-down day at their new home base when championship leaders TeleBarbados Carlton recovered from a mid-innings wobble to post a respectable total.

Malibu Rum Serves Up Online Radio (BrandWeek)Those looking for a taste of the Caribbean may want to tune into “Radio Maliboom Boom.” Created by the Malibu rum brand, the online radio station is hosted by Barbados-based radio personalities DJ Bernhard and MC Wonder Full. Launched this week, it offers non-stop Caribbean music.

When Mortals Work on Cosmic Time (New York Times)The Mayan pyramid Xunantunich and the struggling Large Hadron Collider outside Geneva have something in common: overreach.

A Look Back:Prohibited or not, the booze kept flowing (Daily Pilot)Decades before the Prohibition era brought smugglers to Newport's beaches, their boats laden with barrels of whiskey and rum, the city had a problem with unlicensed drinking establishments called blind pigs.

A storybook vacation (Chicago Sun-Times)Once upon a time — last month, actually — several American families were walking through the medieval German village of Alsfeld. They meandered along the cobblestone streets, marveling at the flower boxes bursting with geraniums and the half-timber homes that seemed too precious to live in. All of a sudden, a girl in a long red coat darted in front of them. She looked afraid, lost. She called ...

Ride on time (Guardian Unlimited)In The Time Traveler's Wife a librarian goes on a romantic journey through the past. Why don't movie time travellers do the sensible thing and hit the bookies, asks David Stubbs Working as a shelf stacker during a student holiday once, I befriended a fellow for whom this job was a permanent gig. Or so it seemed. For he informed me, in all solemnity, that he was working on a time machine in his ...

Plan to host riverboat runs into the shoals (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)Anoka officials have offered a backup docking at a Mississippi River park.

It's dessert and a show with flambe on the menu (Rapid City Journal)Want to get your party started? Try setting a banana on fire.

The USA's Yesterdays: Steven Crane: A badge of courage, personified (Journal Gazette & Times-Courier)Hal Malehorn Sixty-one years ago this autumn I began college, where I enrolled in freshman composition. I had as my instructor Miss Miriam Fackler. From the first class session, Miss Fackler set about teaching us hapless “freshies” the proper way to write English, and among other things, stressed brevity. (“Murder your darlings !” she scribbled liberally in red along the margins of our papers.)

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