Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Monday, December 1st, 2008
By Richard Russel -- The evidence of a downturn has been widespread for months, slower production, stagnant wages and hundreds of thousands of lost jobs. But the nonpartisan National Bureau of Economic Research, charged with making the call for the history books, waited until now to weigh in. In ...
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Friday, November 21st, 2008
By Richard Russel -- November 21st 2008 --- The drumbeat of bad economic news continues, and grows louder. In other economic periods, this would often be accompanied by sliding fixed mortgage rates, but in the risk-averse and panic-market world of 2008, that is simply not the case. Mortgage rates remain ...
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
By Petya Kirkova It’s not every day that we can be part of history in the making. Barack Obama is the first African-American to be elected for president of the United States, and the defining moment shutters all racial barriers that might have remained standing. The American dream ...
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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
By Petya KirkovaIt's late in the evening but no too late. You live on the Upper East Side, and you decided to make crème brûlée. The recipe calls for 6 eggs, but you did make Eggs Benedict for your improvised brunch today, so unfortunately you have only 4 eggs left. ...
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
Usually the most privileges are reserved for the rich and the famous; however, sometimes just being rich is more than enough to make someone feel like a celebrity. The attention is definitely something that can be bought. In a city like New York, the island of Manhattan is the Mecca ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
By Petya KirkovaAfter a very long, nerve-wracking day all you want is to go home and relax. What if for some reason your nest does not feel very relaxing? It’s something you can not put your finger on. It’s not the furniture, it’s not the lighting, and you finally had ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
By Petya Kirkova “Summertime, and the livin’ is easy…”, or at least we wish it was summer, but with temperatures still in the 50s it doesn’t quite feel so. However, with only less than a month left until the end of the spring semester, very soon most of the ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
After the tragic events of 9/11 downtown Manhattan has certainly suffered. Businesses like real estate and retail lost a lot of their profits, and it took the collective efforts of the City and different individuals to bring people back to the lower part of the island. Among those individuals ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
With the catastrophic statistics about pollution, global warming, and contaminated water and air we try to be helpful in our own way. At least I hope that most people take the time of the day to think about their human print on the environment. The responsibility of the natural heritage ...
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
By Petya Kirkova Good day fellow New Yorkers! We all know how busy life in the Big Apple can be. You are rushing up and down the streets with your hard-to-pronounce Starbucks coffees, seriously what happened to just ordering coffee in plain English, piled up with at least 2 ...
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