Turtles Crawl on Runway, Delay Flights at JFK By DAVID B. CARUSO, Associated Press - news.yahoo.com NEW YORK – A runway at John F. Kennedy International Airport was shut down briefly Wednesday morning after at least 78 turtles emerged from a nearby bay and crawled onto the tarmac. Grounds crews eventually rounded up the wayward reptiles and deposited them back in the brackish water farther from airport property, but not before the incident disrupted JFK’s flight schedule and contributed t

Posted by Simon Perry on 29 June 2009 at 3:08 pm | Tagged as: Yahoo, UK, GPS With the next #geomob event coming along tomorrow (30th June, deets below), we thought you’d like to know what it’s like and why you’d be doing yourself a favour for going along. #geomob is a fresh London social meetup that, you won’t be surprised to hear, centres on services that use geo-locating data and those apps that run on mobile devices.It’s run by Christopher Osborne an all over good guy and geo man around to

NEW YORK—-NYTimes.com launched today The Choice , a new blog dedicated to demystifying the college admissions process with insights, analysis and expertise from Jacques Steinberg, a national education reporter for The New York Times and author of “The Gatekeepers: Inside the Admissions Process of a Premier College” , a New York Times best-seller.

US President Barack Obama has fielded online questions from the public during a live webcast to “open up the White House to the American people”.

US President Barack Obama fielded online questions from the public on Thursday during a live webcast of an event he called an effort to “open up the White House to the American people.”