Available at Tourism Ireland offices, the brochure “Ireland’s Cultural Explorer” features information on the country’s 130 castles, museums, monuments, parks, distilleries and gardens. At www.irelandvisitordiscounts.com, you can print out a pass that gives you savings on all 130 venues.

Contact Heritage Island (Marina House, 11-13 Clarence St., Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, Ireland; phone 353 1 236 6890, fax 236 6895, www.heritageisland.com).

In a joint operation by INTERPOL, the World Health Organization and Oxford University’s Southeast Asian Tropical Medicine Research Programme, samples of the antimalarial drug artesunate were purchased throughout Southeast Asia and subjected to analysis. The findings were printed in the February 2008 Public Library of Science journal (http://journals.plos.org).

More than half of the samples collected contained either no artesunate or only a trace amount that could have no prophylactic...

Butterfield & Robinson (Toronto, Ont.; 800/678-1147, www. butterfield.com) is offering a 9-day/8-night cruise of the Turquoise Coast aboard a 100-foot gulet. 

After a hotel night in Istanbul, sail to the Greek island of Kos followed by visits to Nisyros, Knidos, Datca and more, ending in Goçek, Turkey. See Roman and Greek tombs, settlements and ruins.

Prices run $10,495-$11,495 per person, double ($5,245 single suppl.), with departures May 16 and Oct. 17, 2008.