OVER the last few years, Upper Manhattan has traded some of the problems of poverty for those of increasing if uneven wealth. To the list of new irritants, some might add this one: noisy restaurants. Mamajuana, a somberly elegant Dominican-Spanish bar and restaurant in Washington Heights where a skirt steak goes for $22, is popular… [Read more…]
April 13, 2008 by narmer
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School of Public Health Opens As Workforce Shortage Looms[The New York Sun] Lacking Credits, Some Students Learn a Shortcut [New York Times] New York State Passes Legislation to Collect Sales Tax on Internet Purchases [LISNews] Mayor Donates to Schwarzenegger Redistricting Plan [The New York Sun]
April 13, 2008 by narmer
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A Minneapolis food company pulled two of its cereals off store shelves after some 23 people in 14 states – including three New Yorkers – were sickened by salmonella. Malt-O-Meal voluntarily pulled its unsweetened Puffed Rice and Puffed Wheat cereals from shelves April 5 after finding the potentially deadly bacterium during routine testing. The FDA… [Read more…]
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April 13, 2008 by narmer
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