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...game, however. It was New York City in 1832, when the town was struck by a devastating cholera epidemic. That the city fought back as hard and effectively as it did was a tribute to a health system honed by floods of immigrants and the diseases they carried. New York's response to its great plagues, in fact, became a model for the rest of the country. In the decades to follow, the city's lessons were to be institutionalized in the creation of new federal health agencies, new public hospitals and, in 1870, the brand-new office of national...
...brand-new daughter of Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito and Princess Masako, right, born on Saturday, carries a lot of weight for someone who weighs 6 lbs. and change. Cultural and political observers hoped the royal pair's first child, still unnamed, would help bring the nation out of a funk born of a years-long economic bust. Japanese did celebrate in the streets, but there was a hitch. Under current rules, only a male can be Emperor, and since Naruhito's brother has two daughters, there remains no legal heir to succeed Naruhito on the Chrysanthemum Throne. (Remember, folks...
...glad to be here, I’m brand-new, just here to listen and learn tonight,” Stone said...
...Gasoline prices are down near a dollar a gallon and still getting lower, and besides - everybody and his brother just spent October propping up national retail sales by buying brand-new zero-interest-rate automobiles. To grandmother?s house we go. But drivers take shorter trips than flyers and riders, spend less on hotels and spend more time at rest stops and less at the mall. They go to less exotic places - Club Med is closing 15 locations due to a 20-percent bookings decline since the 11th. And how'd you like to be in the rental-car business...
...long? The major sticking point was a provision federalizing the jobs of all airport security personnel. The Republican-controlled House argued that federalizing the airport workforce would simply create more bureaucracy, make it harder to fire lackluster employees and, perhaps most important, provide the Democrats with 28,000 brand-new union members just in time for next year?s elections...