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...stabilizing presence of the U.S. military in Asia is as crucial as ever to Japan, which shares the same neighborhood as a rising China and a belligerent, nuclear North Korea. But dependence on the U.S. has led some Japanese to lament that they don't live in a "normal" country, one responsible for its own defense and foreign affairs, and Hatoyama's talk of a more equal partnership has played well with an electorate bruised by a perception that Japan often plays the little nephew to Uncle...
...authorities canceled all nonemergency flights to and from the country. At London's Heathrow Airport, one of the world's busiest, the eruption affected 1,200 flights and some 180,000 passengers. By early Friday, Britain's National Air Traffic Service remained unsure of when things may return to normal. "In general, the situation cannot be said to be improving with any certainty," the organization said in a statement, adding that "restrictions on all flights in and out of England and Wales will remain in place until at least 0700 BST [2 a.m. ET] Saturday." But in parts of Scottish...
When he returned to school as a sophomore, Cannon found it hard to readjust to the schedule because during his mission, every hour of the day was planned for him. “When you come back, you’re thrown back into normal social things like dating and being exposed to the media,” Cannon says. “You realize when you can’t watch television how much of the things you think of as being socially normal come from what you see in the media.” Cannon asserts nonetheless that...
...furloughs are part of Lingle's solution to a projected budget deficit of nearly $1 billion. Liam Skilling says he and other protesters felt they needed to occupy the governor's office to make a stand because so many in the state were beginning to accept the furloughs as normal. "What we're fighting for now is so simply right," Skilling says. "We're fighting for our public-school system." (See how Hawaii's budget led to furloughed kids...
...cartels apparently use Twitter and Facebook not only to communicate with one another, but also to spread fear through local communities. Recently in the bloody border town of Reynosa, people associated with one cartel used tweets to terrorize Reynosa by posting messages that created panic among residents and halted normal activities as the threats circulated online. One such message read, "The largest scheduled shootout in the history of Reynosa will be tomorrow or Sunday, send this message to people you trust that tomorrow a convoy of 60 trucks full of cartel hitmen from the Michoacan Family together with members...