Topic: new york times

From the New York Times: Is a man who is just discovering the Internet qualified to lead a restoration of America’s economic and educational infrastructures? Is the leader of a virtually all-white political party America’s best salesman and moral avatar in the age of globalization? Does a bellicose Vietnam veteran who rushed to hitch his star to the self-immolating overreaches of...

There's still a few more days of summer to grab and book and settle in your beach chair for an afternoon read. However, in the New York Times Newly Released, it lists books released this month that are far from breezy. “Everybody suffers, but Americans have the peculiar delusion that they’re exempt from suffering.” This is Peter Trachtenberg's introduction to The Book of...

Christine Quinn, Speaker for New York City's City Council, is speculated by major media outlets to run for Mayor next year. The councilwoman was recently profiled in Edge Boston, an LGBTQ paper, and referenced in the New York Times. Will our own Sam Adams have another large metro mayoral counterpart to chat with? Quinn has had...

One educational effort in Portland.(Photo © J. Maus) The New York Times has an amazing report (In a Cyclist-Friendly City, a Black Hole for Bikes - 8/21/08) about a man in Toronto, Canada who was caught with nearly 3,000 stolen bikes in his possession. According to the report, Igor Kenk was a used bike shop owner (among...

From the New York Times: Often, a visit to the doctor’s office starts with a weigh-in. But is a person’s weight really a reliable indicator of overall health? Increasingly, medical research is showing that it isn’t. Despite concerns about an obesity epidemic, there is growing evidence that our obsession about weight as a primary measure of health may be misguided. Last week a...

Funny that the New York Times reports the medal count like this: While Australia and the rest of the world counts it like this: Either which way, Great Britain is beating Australia and that is bad, bad, bad news...If we end up like that it'll be 4 years of torture before we go at it again in London in 2012.Let's keep things in perspective though. Looking at population ranks,...

The August 17 edition of the New York Times gave Kim Novak her props -- citing most of her great movies, but focusing much of its attention on her timeless (literally!) performance in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo. Writes columnist Stanley Fish: "She was not earthy like Gardner or icy like Kelly or Rubensesque like Monroe or raunchy like Jane Russell or perky like Doris Day. She was...

The October/November 2008 issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine will contain the short story, "The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates". This story will also be included in Just After Sunset. The issue should be available on August 30th....