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In picking a theme for the decor for the Obama administration's first state dinner with India, the first lady went for the obvious: garden. Michelle Obama's green thumbprints were all over the decor, food and flower arrangements at Tuesday's big event held outside in the South Lawn under a big tent.
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BELMONT - If you want to prepare something from your own pumpkins for your holiday table, you have to be thinking pumpkins in April. That’s when Kathy Martin plants seeds for Baby Pams, giant Big Rocks, and green-skinned Jarrahdales.
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CHARLES
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NYT > N.Y.
The last major hurdle to a $4.9 billion development in Brooklyn fell after a ruling by New York’s highest court.
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WILLIAM
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NYT > N.Y.
The authorities said that suspects including officials from contracting and construction firms were ultimately trying to obtain certificates of occupancy illegally.
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Stephen J. Dubner, co-author of SuperFreakonomics, came on Fox News today to help support charges made by climate deniers and skeptics that the scientific consensus on climate change is actually made up. Dubner let Fox Business Network host David Asman lead him into answering questions that framed climate change as a funny ruse set up to foster ...
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NOHO— Our little Deuce Coop knows what we like, and that's hot brick and cornice reveals! The 15-story rental tower going up at 2 Cooper Square has topped out and loosened up its dark coverings, offering a peek at what's to come at the corner of Bowery and East 4th Street. We've seen the renderings a couple times , but the real thing is ...
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Closing Bell: Three Days Til Gifted Holiday Market Opens
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The outdoor Flea season just ended but we're not missing a beat: We got the keys to the old Tower Records space on Lafayette and East 4th streets in Manhattan yesterday and our window dressers worked overtime last night to get the display for Gifted up right away. The holiday market opens this Friday at noon and runs through Christmas Eve every ...
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The appearance of upwardly-mobile Chinese on the streets quickly attracted the attention of journalists from a campaigning regional newspaper Photo: AP
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BAY RIDGE/DYKER HEIGHTS -- âWeâre not going to take it anymore!â is the cry blasting from Community Board 10 that serves Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights, where the curb-cut âscourgeâ has driven the board into officially issuing a citywide call for action.
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Early last year Harlem's Church of the Master was demolished after being sold to a developer looking to build on the site of the 115-year-old church on West 122nd Street, to the outrage of at least one person . Now Harlem Bespoke brings us an update on what has risen in its place, a new condo project called 88 Morningside (here's the preview ...
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Bed Bug Scare At Park Slope Movie Theater [Gothamist] KBCC Benefits From Record High Enrollment [SB] Zuzu's 5th Re-Birthday [OTBKB] Job Vacancies: Ingersoll Community Center [myrtle minutes] Greed Makes Landlords Stupid [Lost City] Smith & 9th sunset. Photo by Barry Yanowitz from the Brownstoner Flickr Pool .
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"Team Lederman! The guy went up against Guiliani and won back in the 90s when Rudy tried to require the art vendors to apply for a limited number of licenses to sell in front of the Met and in Central Park . Although there are not many, there are some nooks and crannies on the High Line that are not heavy traffic areas, and I've been waiting for ...
DANNY HAKIM
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NYT > N.Y.
The governor’s proposal to close a $3.2 billion deficit gets nowhere with lawmakers, who say they will not abdicate their responsibilities.
A spokesman for the former anchor Lou Dobbs said he may run against Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey.
Former Massachusetts House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi and three friends were indicted today by a federal grand jury for allegedly orchestrating a scheme that allowed DiMasi to pocket tens of thousands of dollars in payments from a software company while he was using his powerful office to make sure the company won state contracts.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – He waited uneasily in a faraway corner of an empty Candlewyck Diner, clutching a cup of coffee and squinting through tired eyes. It was 6:30 a.m. on Monday, and Lawrence Frank reluctantly indulged a reporter’s request to talk on his way to the office. The coach of the New Jersey Nets wore a nylon long-sleeved ...
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Why do I garden? Why does an artist paint? Why does a pianist spend days practicing for an hour long concert? The truth is, I don’t know why I garden. I don’t know why I have an affinity for plants, a need to see them thrive, a hungering for their beauty. As a child, I [...]
Alex Steffen
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Worldchanging
Alex SteffenThere's been a lot of talk recently about the "hacked climate emails." Long story, short: Hacker steals email, posts. Wingnuts take some lines out of...
A San Francisco man has filed a lawsuit that challenges New York's long-held claim to the world's most frivolous noise complaints . A former political aide and disbarred attorney is suing San Francisco International Airport and others claiming that noise from the airport ruined his marriage, among other maladies. The suit (he's seeking $555 ...
 
Noreply
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A Gardener
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Yale Environment 360
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Yale Environment 360 U.S. researchers have demonstrated a technology that uses the sun’s heat to convert carbon dioxide and water into the building blocks of traditional fuels,...
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