Take your current job. Add thousands of people whom you have to make happy for days and days. Add a staff that includes comedians and blackjack dealers. Add a Motown Night, the mechanics of which you still need to figure out. Also, your office might get tossed around by a bomb cyclone. Oh, and you… Read More: How a Carnival Cruise Director Keeps Himself Shipshape »
For most people here in the U.S., the holiday season kicks off at the end of November. The days are shorter, there’s a crispness to the air and whole neighborhoods compete to shine brightly after dark. Whatever you celebrate — Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, Winter Solstice, Kwanzaa or the New Year — this time of the year is filled… Read More: Don't let hearing loss take away the sounds of the… »
ZURICH (Reuters) – Novartis’s price-setting muscle is about to be tested after it won European Union approval for a blindness-fighting gene therapy whose $ 850,000 list cost in the United States has been labeled too expensive by some groups. FILE PHOTO: A Novartis logo is pictured on its headquarters building in Mumbai April 1, 2013.… Read More: Novartis's pricing might be tested with costly eye therapy »
GUOGEZHUANG, China/BEIJING (Reuters) – China will adjust its rules on controlling the spread of African swine fever to keep pork supplies stable, said an official on Friday, even as the country reported the first cases of the disease to be discovered in its capital. Workers in protective suits are seen at a checkpoint on a… Read More: China worries about hog supply as African swine fever reaches… »