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If you'll be cooking your own, try the ever-more-popular "beer can turkey" -- turkey deliciously steamed from the inside with beer from a can inserted you know where during the grilling process -- allegedly leaving it "unbelievably juicy" while also draining off the fat and "producing a ...
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Hungry, sure, but food is healthier When a small church comes to the Bowery Mission bearing fried chicken with trans fat, unwittingly breaking the law, they’re told "thank you." Then workers quietly chuck the food, mission director Tom Bastile said. "It’s always hard for us to do," Basile ...
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The same day, in the same newspapers: New York Times, November 17: Hunger in U.S. at a 14-Year High (Print edition version: " 49 Million Americans Report Lack of Food ” ~~ and ~~ Study Foresees an Increase in Obesity and Its Costs the search for ways to slow the growth of health care ...
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~~~ quote ~~~ ... In 1972 ... between [his wife] Brenda’s drinking, his pot use, and their mutual dependence on cocaine, the couple began a death spiral. By 1974, both were suffering from hallucinations. Brenda would see groups of nonexistent people on their roof, and once tried to stab ...
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From the New York Times ... ... the cultural implications of the decline of broadcast television may be as profound as the business forces at play. Broadcast television was “a place, an arena, where ideas were presented in a fashion in which people could become attached to or explore,” said Mr. ...
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[] A map of housing bubble. Earlier this year we noted that just four states dominated the mortgage crisis -- and so sank the world economy. "Home prices increased in 28 states during the fourth quarter of 2008 ... only nine states had foreclosure rates above the average." Now comes a national ...
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[] Detroit's Ponitac Silverdome sold -- to be renamed Union Discount Stadium? The former home of the NFL Detroit Lions, built in 1975 at a cost of $55.7 million -- $224 million 2009 dollars -- has been auctioned off for $583,000. The sale includes 127 adjacent acres. The Silverdome had also ...
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The Attorney General has an exchange with Senator Lindsey Graham at last week's Senate Judiciary hearing. We NYCers who experienced 9/11, and will have the fun of experiencing the civilian-court trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his 9/11 co-conspirators, pay attention to this sort of thing. ...
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Google's headquarters for New York City and the East Coast is down the block in the building where I park my car. Now that I know the answers to these questions , maybe the next time I'm in there I'll go upstairs and drop off an application.
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"As California goes so goes the nation", is an old saying in politics. A little earlier this year the now perpetually on-the-brink-of-bankruptcy state had to pay its bills with "IOUs" when it ran out of cash. And now it is back facing another $21 billion shortfall and a return to dealing out ...
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Paul R. Krugman
Sacramento Bee : California State University officials reported late last week that they saved more jobs with stimulus money than the number of jobs saved in Texas –- and in 44 other states. In a required state report to the federal government, the university system said the $268.5 million it ...
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Stimulus Plan
General Motors will start paying back taxpayers' money -- with taxpayers' money. The New York Times tells us : G.M. said Monday that while it was still losing money [a mere $1.2 billion in the third quarter -- an amount not mentioned until the story's 11th graf] it had stabilized enough that it ...
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[] The "butterfly effect" in action -- or here, the mosquito effect: History Matters : If you paid a $4 poll tax in 1910, your great-grandchild gets a polio vaccine today Mosquitoes caused the poll tax in 1910. [] Monkey economics . Topics: Rewards to education and " human vervet capital" ... ...
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[] How to beat the spread on NFL football games. Bet against the visiting team the first time it visits a new stadium. There's lots of evidence that home field advantage in all sports results from the visiting team being unfamiliar with the home team's venue -- and the visitor is never more ...
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Taken by economist Steven Landsburg on his new blog ... It’s always impressive to see one person excel in two widely disparate activities: a first-rate mathematician who’s also a world class mountaineer, or a titan of industry who conducts symphony orchestras on the side. But sometimes I think ...
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Paul R. Krugman
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Economics became known as "The Dismal Science" as the result of early 19th Century economists taking an unpopular stand in support of the equality of the races and against slavery. Quoting from William Easterly's excellent Aidwatchers blog, guest blogger Adam Martin ... ~~~ ... contemptible ...
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Even if the business was losing big money? And you are the government? Pay czar backtracks The pay czar job may be getting to Kenneth Feinberg. The government's special master for executive compensation said yesterday that he is "very concerned" that plans to rein in Wall Street bonuses may, ...
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American International Group
Eliot Spitzer lectures today at the Center for Ethics at Harvard This is the same Sptizer who as governor of New York initiated the events of the notorious Troopergate scandal , in which state troopers spied on political opponents ... as attorney general even more notoriously habitually ...
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Veterans Day first celebrated the signing of the
armistice ending World War I on November 11, 1918....
It has continued to be celebrated around the world as Armistice Day, Remembrance Day, and under other names, among the nation that fought in the War. The Great War is a remote black-and-white war ...
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Color Photographs of World War I
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