According to eye witnesses, scores of both Malawians and Americans including security agents scampered in different directions to take cover.“There was a slight panic as the bees winged across the airport. People could be seen running away to keep cover as the Secretary of State swiftly boarded her plane to avoid any stings,†an eye witness told Nyasa Times.
In Silicon Valley, Showing Off Their Louboutins – NYTimes.com
The Narco Tunnels of Nogales – Businessweek
If everyone had kept quiet, it could have been the most valuable parking spot on earth. Convenient only to the careworn clothing stores clustered in the southern end of downtown Nogales, Ariz., it offered little to shoppers, and mile-long Union Pacific (UNP) trains sometimes cut it off from much of the city for 20 minutes at a time. But the location was perfect: In the middle of the short stretch of East International Street, overshadowed by the blank walls of quiet commercial property, the space was less than 50 feet from the international border with Mexico.
‘If America can do it to Manning, what will happen to my son?’ – Christine Assange — RT
Pay TV Subscriptions Increasing in 2012 – Peter Kafka – Media – AllThingsD
Reuters says more than 400,000 Americans have dropped pay TV this year. So maybe cord-cutting is real, after all.But if it is, the numbers don’t show it.It’s easy to be confused about this stuff, but it’s also easy to clear it up: If you want to evaluate the state of the pay TV business, you have to include the results from the telco guys, who have been taking share from the cable and satellite guys. And you have to look at numbers for the whole year, not a single quarter.Once you do that, you end up with numbers that are basically flat, give or take a few thousand subscribers.
via Pay TV Subscriptions Increasing in 2012 – Peter Kafka – Media – AllThingsD.
Dont tweet if you want TV, London fans told | Reuters
SKYPE SPLIT: One Of Tech’s Most Successful Partnerships Has Mysteriously Dissolved – Business Insider
Al Qaeda Insinuating Its Way Into Syria’s Conflict – NYTimes.com
Israeli tourists flock to Golan Heights to watch Syrians in battle
Landmark publication Weekly Reader to shut down – NYPOST.com
Weekly Reader, a staple in American classrooms for a century, has some hard news for its young readers: it’s shutting down.Chief rival Scholastic, which bought the school newspaper earlier this year, is folding it into Scholastic News and axing all but five of Weekly Reader’s 60 employees in White Plains, NY, The Post has learned.Like all papers, Weekly Reader was struggling with changes roiling the print world and was under pressure to develop digital editions. Along with school budget cutbacks, those challenges were compounded by ownership turmoil that left the paper with few resources to invest, sources said.
via Landmark publication Weekly Reader to shut down – NYPOST.com.