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Whale killed by cruise ship - Today, 07:00 - PA A cruise ship operating in Alaska fatally struck a whale. Princess Cruises said the dead whale became stuck at the bow of the Sapphire Princess,...

Who's to blame at BP? The board

BP's Gulf disaster is the board of directors' fault -- and not just in the sense that everything is ultimately the board's fault. This board has earned its blame in a very direct way. Yet you'd never suspect it from the directors' all-star credentials.

Crisis management 101: What can BP CEO Hayward's mistakes teach us?

It's a fundamental rule of crisis management: Think with a little less head and a little more heart.

Holy Horology

Everything began by a mass or service on Tuesday April 10, the day before the opening of BaselWorld. At the end of the day, a small el-egant crowd gathered at the Elizabethan Kirche in Basel, squeezing together on the church benches under the high and colourful stained glass windows.

âRich! Bear!â - The Great Bear, The Great Land, The Great North Woods

One of the earliest memories I have is of my mother reading to me from a Little Golden Book designed to teach preschoolers the alphabet by way of the Noahs Ark story. On page one Noah gathered two apesor aardvarks maybe, something starting with the letter A. I dont remember. On the last page two zebras climbed up the gangplank to the big boat under Noahs benevolent, animal-loving gaze just ...