Knoxvillian hunting uncle's remains from half a world away - Knoxville News Sentinel
28 May 2012, 4:33 am
In the early morning hours of Nov. 27, 1945, three months after the end of World War II, an American C-47 Skytrain military cargo plane lifted off with its crew of three returning from Singapore to Butterworth Airfield at Penang, Malaysia.

Lessons from the Rock for Europe's banks - Reuters UK
27 May 2012, 9:07 am
LONDON (Reuters) - In November 2010, rumours swirled through financial markets that Spanish bank BBVA (BBVA.MC) was suffering a run on its deposits. The share price fell before excitable traders realised they had made a mistake. In fact the bank ...

from the Battery to carriage tours, Charleston brims with enough charm to fill many vacations. - Anderson Independent-Mail
27 May 2012, 2:47 am
Thoughts of Charleston bring to mind the scent of magnolias and Confederate jasmine wafting on the night air. The carriage tours are reminiscent of earlier days when only horse-drawn carriages traveled the narrow, cobbled streets. Centuries-old ...

Activists: Toll from Syrian attack more than 90 - YAHOO!
26 May 2012, 9:08 am
BEIRUT (AP) — Government troops shelled a string of villages in central Syria before pro-regime thugs swept through the area, shooting people in the streets and in their homes in attacks that killed more than 90 people, activists said Saturday.

Microsoft Requests Takedowns from Google, But Content Remains on Bing - Wired News
25 May 2012, 5:52 pm
Google has released a trove of insightful data via its new Transparency Report section. The data includes up-to-date numbers on worldwide traffic to Google services, as well as the number of user data requests that Google receives from ...

A runner's journey: from Congo to Cleveland - YAHOO!
25 May 2012, 1:27 pm
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Phil and Sarah Torrens marvel at the awful symmetry. They lost a son, yet gained another. They went from darkness to light. And, at the same time, with their help, so did Makorobondo ''Dee'' Salukombo. When he was 12, Dee escaped with ...

Gulf fishermen reel from seafood troubles - FOX News
23 May 2012, 6:58 pm
LAFITTE, La. – Gloom infects the hard-working shrimp and crab docks of this gritty fishing town as the second full year of fishing since BP's catastrophic oil spill kicks into high gear. Usually folks are upbeat and busy in May, when shrimpers ...

Can Better Data Keep Students from Dropping Out of College? - Atlantic Online
22 May 2012, 9:41 am
One of the biggest challenges to college education in the U.S. is the staggering number of students who don't, in the end, earn degrees. Attrition doesn't just mean a bunch of Americans with half-finished college careers; it also means huge sunk costs for ...

from a Facebook Founder Comes a Way to Streamline Work Flow - New York Times
21 May 2012, 9:42 am
SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook’s success has spawned a multimillion-dollar boom in social networking. There are networks for photo-sharers, for children and for workers inside companies. Yammer and Jive, for instance, promise to energize employees ...

Why Firing Dan Harmon from 'Community' Was Stupid and Very NBC (Analysis) - Hollywood Reporter
20 May 2012, 1:54 pm
If NBC wanted to send a message to the creative community that writing and running your own show is a job without security, then by all means, congratulations on the impressive chilling effect. No doubt people will look at, say, Smash and think, “Well ...