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Showing posts with label fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fiction. Show all posts
Friday, December 23, 2011

100 Years of the Tappan Zee Bridge: A Look Back

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This December 15 will be the hundredth anniversary of the completion of the first Tappan Zee Bridge in 1955. In honor of that occasion, we...
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Monday, November 28, 2011

It's about jobs

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Today, jobs are the No. 1 concern of most New Yorkers and Americans. Unemployment in New York state is at 8 percent and nationally it's ...
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Saturday, October 1, 2011

A new High Line for Chicago

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Paris has the Promenade Plantée. New York has the High Line. Lebanon, New Hampshire has the Northern Trail. Soon Chicago will have its ow...
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Saturday, June 11, 2011

Schumer calls for horse "no ride" list in wake of terror plot

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Sen. Charles Schumer called today for the creation of a "No Ride List" for American horses to prevent suspected terrorists from ta...
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Friday, November 19, 2010

Japan's "Catbus" could ease traffic, reduce pollution

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Artist's rendering Tired of traffic? Japan's got an answer. It's a huge cat shaped like a bus that can climb over smaller ...
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Tuesday, September 7, 2010

A brilliant idea for Broadway

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Okay, I'm a civic-minded Queens resident with no engineering background, so maybe this won't work at all. But they tell me that B...
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Monday, August 23, 2010

Sustenance: A glorious workers' enterprise

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Matt Yglesias writes : I feel certain that if Financial Times did an article about how some country’s determination to provide free bags of ...
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Friday, May 30, 2008

The Ant, the Grasshopper and the Senator

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Once upon a time, there was a Grasshopper who lived in a field. He saw an Ant passing by with a large nut on his bicycle rack. "Yo, An...
Friday, March 28, 2008

The Last Palm Tree

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Author Jared Diamond, among others, has wondered , "What did the Easter Islander who cut down the last palm tree say?" A new disc...
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Friday, February 29, 2008

Hakeem Jeffries, Man of the People

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After reports like this and this , your Cap'n was trying to imagine some of the conversations that led Assemblymember Jeffries to take ...
Saturday, February 23, 2008

Film Review: Quest for Justice

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"When the law is on the wrong side, only one man will fight for the people." Opens Friday nationwide. The latest offering from Ch...