Tuesday, June 05, 2012
U.S. official: Al Qaeda leader killed in drone strike in Pakistan - CNN.com - Abu Yahya al-Libi, the No. 2 man in al Qaeda and a longtime public face of the terror network, has been killed by a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan, a U.S. official said Tuesday. His death marks one of the most significant blows to al Qaeda since the U.S. military killed Osama bin Laden in a daring nighttime raid in Pakistan a year ago.
Pinterest For Business: More Effective Than Facebook? - HuffingtonPost.com - Alicia Ciccone - Business owners have spent plenty of time stressing about social media over the past few years, with the debate usually centering around Facebook and Twitter. But, as it turns out, Pinterest may offer the best bang for the click. Pinterest users are 79 percent more likely to purchase items they saw pinned to Pinterest boards versus what Facebook users see on their newsfeeds, according to a social commerce survey by SteelHouse.
Braves select Lucas Sims of Brookwood High School in first round of Draft | Braves.com - Mark Bowman - Four days before retiring John Smoltz's number, the Braves selected a local pitcher who grew up idolizing Smoltz. The club took suburban Atlanta's Lucas Sims with its first-round selection in this year's First-Year Player Draft, 21st overall. The 18-year-old product of Gwinnett County's Brookwood High School possesses a fastball that has touched 94 mph and a hard curveball.
Astros pick Carlos Correa No. 1 in the draft - USATODAY -Houston, who was rumored to be on Stanford pitcher Mark Appel or Georgia high school outfielder Byron Buxton, chose Correa instead. Scouts say Correa may be the best Puerto Rican prospect since Carlos Beltran. Correa is the first player from Puerto Rico to be drafted No. 1 overall. The Minnesota Twins chose Buxton with the second overall pick. At No. 3, the Seattle Mariners selected catcher Mike Zunino from the University of Florida.
Facebook Will Disappear by 2020, Says Analyst - Mashable - “In five to eight years they are going to disappear in the way that Yahoo has disappeared,” Ironfire Capital founder Eric Jackson told the CNBC show Squawk on the Street on Monday. -- “The world is moving faster, it’s getting more competitive, not less,” he said. “I think those who are dominant in their prior generation are really going to have a hard time moving into this newer generation. “Facebook can buy a bunch of mobile companies, but they are still a big, fat website and that’s different from a mobile app.”
Why California Booted the GOP - and Other States Will Too | Chris Thompson | Politics News | Rolling Stone - Two decades of immigration and changing demographics have steadily eroded the Republican base in the Golden State. But rather than adapt to this new reality, the state party lurched deep into the far-right swamplands of American politics. As the state grew more socially liberal, the last of the Republicans doubled down on conservatism, and sank into irrelevancy. - But this is no local story. What happened in California is just beginning to happen all over the country. The GOP’s most reliable supporters are increasingly crammed into the South and the Midwest, energized by an ever more embattled sense of grievance and cultural alienation, while the rest of the country becomes younger, more multicultural, and more socially liberal. This trend is only going to accelerate, and unless Mitt Romney and his colleagues come to their senses and find a way to reverse it, the GOP is looking at a generation in the electoral wilderness. - And Republicans will have done it to themselves. Just like they did in California. - From the late 1960s through the ‘80s, California was a Republican paradise.
Gail Collins on Texas’s Abstinence Sex Education Problems - The Daily Beast - The state pushes abstinence sex education yet it has one of the highest rates of teen pregnancy. So why is the rest of the country paying half a billion dollars a year to support their teen mothers? An excerpt from Gail Collins’s new book, As Texas Goes…
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