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World's Top 50 Business Centers

Jun 14, 07 8:20 PM CDT
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  1. London
  2. New York
  3. Tokyo
  4. Chicago
  5. Hong Kong
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London • Chicago • New York • Hong Kong • business • list • top business centers • Tokyo

Pacino, Ono Push for Dead Celeb Bill

NY law would bar unauthorized bobble heads for 70 years

Jun 14, 07 6:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Actor Al Pacino and Yoko Ono are lobbying the New York legislature to make it a misdemeanor to merchandise unauthorized images of dead celebrities for up to 70 years after their death. The use of sound recordings, or faces and names on anything from T-shirts to bobble heads would require... More »

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New York • Al Pacino • First Amendment • Yoko Ono • John Lennon • Babe Ruth • Arthur Ashe • Jimi Hendrix • celebrity • legislature • artistic expression

Top Beaches 2007

Jun 11, 07 10:04 PM CDT
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  1. Ocracoke Lifeguarded Beach, Outer Banks, North Carolina
  2. Caladesi Island State Park, Dunedin/Clearwater, Florida
  3. Coopers Beach, Southampton, New York
  4. Hanalei Bay, Kauai, Hawaii
  5. Coast Guard Beach, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
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Florida • travel • New York • beach • Ocracoke • North Carolina • list • Massachusetts • vacation • Hawaii • Maui

Largest Oil Spill in US Seeps Under Brooklyn

Exxon owns up to a century of leaks and dumping over 55 acres

Jun 4, 07 5:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - Underneath the ground of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, is a dark blob of gasoline, solvents, and associated poisons that composes the biggest oil spill in US history.  It's accumulated from a century's worth of smaller leaks and waste dumping, reports New York magazine, and ExxonMobil has quietly accepted the blame, but... More »

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cancer • environment • oil • real estate • environmentalism • New York • waste • oil spill • Brooklyn • Newtown Creek • hydrocarbon • ExxonMobil • Greenpoint • bone cancer • chemicals • solvents

Bloomberg May Take on Spitzer

Source tells
NY Post the mayor
is pondering a 2010
run for Albany

May 8, 07 5:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - It may not be Pennyslvania Avenue, but Mike Bloomberg is seriously weighing a run for Albany's top job, a senior Republican operative has told the New York Post. "On two occasions in recent weeks, the mayor brought up the possibility of running for governor, of running against Spitzer in... More »

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Republican • New York • Michael Bloomberg • mayor • Eliot Spitzer • Election 2008 • Albany

Rocket Returns to the Bronx

Yanks give Clemens one year, $28 million

May 6, 07 9:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Roger Clemens announced on Sunday to an ecstatic crowd at Yankee Stadium that he'd be joining New York this year. The news is well-timed for the best-paid team in baseball, which has suffered a catastrophic string of pitching injuries. Two of his other previous teams, Boston and Houston, had also... More »

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MLB • New York • New York Yankees • Roger Clemens • Yankee Stadium • baseball

Lunacy Could Be the Ticket For Rudy

So what if he was out of control as mayor? Only New Yorkers know that 

May 1, 07 11:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Most Americans don't know Rudy Giuliani the way New Yorkers do: as an outlandish, manic, mean, and sometimes inspired mayor who ran the city in a style "much closer to that of a banana-republic potentate than to your average city administrator's," writes Michael Wolff. What Wolff wants to... More »

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Rudy Giuliani • presidential campaign • New York • mayor • Republican presidential primaries • Election 2008

Steinbrenner Supports Torre

Yankees boss gives lukewarm support for beleaguered coach, GM

Apr 30, 07 11:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - George Steinbrenner is mellowing with age.  After a miserable April in which baseball's best-paid team went 9-14 and suffered an ungodly number of pitching injuries, the formerly trigger-happy Yankees owner gave a 127-word statement both supporting his manager, Joe Torre, and making it clear that the status quo was... More »

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MLB • New York • George Steinbrenner • New York Yankees • Joe Torre • baseball

Bloomberg
Aims to Take NYC Green

Plan calls for $8 fee to drive into Manhattan

Apr 23, 07 6:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - Michael Bloomberg chose Earth Day to launch an ambitious, expensive and politically uncertain campaign to make New York City “the first environmentally sustainable 21st-century city.” The most provocative proposal: charging drivers $8 a day for entering Manhattan below 86th Street. More »

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environment • New York City • pollution • environmentalism • New York • Manhattan • Earth Day • PlaNYC • congestion pricing • Michael Bloomberg

Former Giuliani Partner Faces Felony Charges

Kerik trial could embarrass the GOP frontrunner

Mar 31, 07 4:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bernie Kerik is about to embarrass his former pal and partner Rudy Giuliani again. Federal prosecutors say they will charge Kerik with with several felonies in connection with the same problems that sank his nomination for secretary of Homeland Security in 2004. More »

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Rudy Giuliani • Republican • Bernard Kerik • New York City • taxes • New York • tax evasion • Election 2008

V-Word Gets
Teens Suspended

"Vagina Monologues" excerpt deemed
too racy for children in audience

Mar 8, 07 2:11 PM CST
(Newser) - Three high school girls in a New York City suburb were suspended for reciting the word "vagina" in an excerpt of the "The Vagina Monologues" during a school open-mic night. Faculty had instructed the 16-year-old honors students to delete the word, in deference to children in the audience,... More »

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education • Eve Ensler • theater • Vagina Monologues • high school • New York • school

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