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...business of utility concealment has attracted only a dozen or so players. Industry leader Larson Camouflage, whose parent company in Tucson, Ariz., has spent decades building fake habitats for such clients as Disney World and the Bronx Zoo, developed the first "tree" tower in 1992. TeleFlage founder Nancy Tuggle got into the business after serving on a planning board in a San Diego suburb that nixed a proposed tower in someone's backyard. She directed PacBell to a nearby school and six years later is forming a coalition of camouflagers to help companies expand their networks by educating the public...
Empire, the new film starring John Leguizamo as a drug dealer in the South Bronx, plays like a combination of The Godfather trilogy and Bonfire of the Vanities...
...mind. A two-faced character, he ruthlessly defends his territory and kills anyone who gets in his way, while also tenderly looking after his girlfriend Carmen. Vic’s identity as a Latino quickly comes into play as the film draws a very defined line between the Hispanic Bronx and White Manhattan. Although the film portrays the Bronx as indelibly linked to the illegal drug trade that takes place there, Manhattan, as represented by investment banker Jack Whimmer (Peter Sarsgaard), comes off as being more corrupt and far more superficial than its ethnically diverse neighbor...
...Herbert] quadruple boiled all of his food to make sure that all vestiges of folic acid were removed from his diet,” said his colleague, Clive Rosendorff, chief of medicine at the Bronx Veterans Affairs Medical Center. “Sure enough, he became anemic and quite seriously...
...time of his death, Herbert was a professor of medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and chief of the hematology and nutrition research laboratory at the Bronx Veterans Affairs Medical Center...