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- Airline Adds Popular Citrus Beverage to Industry's Largest On-Board Drinks Line-Up - ORLANDO, Fla., June 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AirTran Airways, a subsidiary of AirTran Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: AAI), today announced that it is adding popular citrus beverage, Fresca(R), onboard all flights, effective today. The calorie free drink will become the 21st beverage of The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) available complimentary to all passengers. "AirTran Airways continues to delight and...

British explorers studying the Arctic are struggling with a series of technical problems after enduring ferocious weather, BBC News reported.The crew has been dealing with breakdowns and uncertainties involving its portable radar device, known as Sprite, which is designed to make millions of measurements of the ice thickness.Additionally, the ship's SeaCat, an instrument meant to measure the temperature and salinity of the water beneath the ice-cap, is also malfunctioning.However, other...

- Complimentary glaceau vitaminwater Provided to Fans on the Way to the Big Game - ATLANTA, April 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AirTran Airways, a subsidiary of AirTran Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: AAI), and the Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) announced today that fans heading to the big games in Detroit this weekend will be well hydrated thanks to vitaminwater and Atlanta's low-fare leader. Passengers flying from Atlanta to Detroit on AirTran Airways today will be served complimentary vitaminwater...

In legend, sprites are trolls, elves and other spirits that dance high above our ozone layer. But scientists at Tel Aviv University have discovered that some very real "sprites" are zipping across the atmosphere as well, providing a possible explanation for those other legendary denizens of the skies, UFOs.Thunderstorms, says Prof. Colin Price, head of the Geophysics and Planetary Sciences Department at Tel Aviv University, are the catalyst for a newly discovered natural phenomenon...

- Airline is First to Offer glaceau smartwater(R) and FUZE(R) Slenderize as Premium Beverage Choices - ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AirTran Airways, a subsidiary of AirTran Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: AAI), today announced that it will be adding two new additions to its premium beverage options by offering FUZE(R) Slenderize Strawberry Melon and glaceau smartwater(R) onboard all flights, effective immediately. FUZE(R) Slenderize Strawberry Melon and glaceau...

ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AirTran Airways, a subsidiary of AirTran Holdings, Inc. , today announced that it will be the first airline to serve FUZE Refresh(R), a non-carbonated flavored beverage produced by Coca-Cola North America, onboard all flights effective immediately. The carrier will offer FUZE Refresh in Peach Mango flavor and will also use FUZE Refresh to prepare new Signature Cocktails -- the Georgia Peach and the Florida Mango. (Photo:...

CORONA, Calif., Oct. 6, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hansen Natural Corporation ("Hansen") (Nasdaq:HANS), The Coca-Cola Company ("TCCC") (NYSE:KO) and Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc. ("CCE") (NYSE:CCE) today announced that they have completed agreements for distribution of the category-leading Monster Energy(r) drinks line in six Western European countries, Canada and selected territories in the U.S. These agreements will complement Hansen's existing relationship with Anheuser-Busch ("AB") and will...

ESA -- Do giant flashes of lightning striking upwards from thunder clouds merely pose an extraordinarily spectacular view? Or do they actually alter the chemical composition of the atmosphere, playing a role in ozone depletion and the climate on Earth? This is the key question that may be answered by specially designed cameras, which ESA proposes to place on board the International Space Station. The International Space Station (ISS) is the ideal setting for studies of spectacular natural...

NASA -- Giant red blobs, picket fences, upward branching carrots, and tentacled octopi -- these are just a few of the phrases used to describe sprites -- spectacular, eerie flashes of colored light high above the tops of powerful thunderstorms that can travel up to 50 miles high in the atmosphere. Sprites, so-named by a University of Alaska scientist inspired by the creatures in Shakespeare's "The Tempest," have been observed since the 1800s, though rarely visible from the ground....

AGU -- An unprecedented flash observed by the space shuttle Columbia crew in 2003 over the Indian Ocean may be a new type of transient luminous event, like lightning sprites, but one that is not necessarily caused by a thunderstorm. The discharge was observed less than two weeks before the shuttle was lost during its Earth reentry. The authors describe the discharge as a Transient Ionospheric Glow Emission in Red, or TIGER, event. It was recorded by a video camera in the near-infrared...