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...Dodgers uniform? -Mike McGillicutty, Echo Park, Calif.You don't feel it until you look in the mirror and all of a sudden people are starting to make comments that "boy, you don't look the same." I knew what the Dodgers uniform represented, as a kid growing up in Brooklyn. But it certainly felt strange...
...such global interest. Though the lamppost bumpers were removed from Brick Lane after only 24 hours, the debate over such "nanny government" maneuvers and the rampant dangers of walking while texting rages on. It's a debate that New Yorkers joined last year when State Senator Carl Kruger of Brooklyn introduced a bill in Albany to combat "iPod oblivion." His bill, which was prompted by the death of two constituents who were killed crossing the street while listening to their iPods, sought to ban pedestrians from using earphones in crosswalks in New York's large urban areas. The bill languished...
...manufacturer, has seen a 25% increase in sales of its new line of the trendiest wallpapers this year. "American designers are rediscovering what the British have always known--wallpaper is one of the best ways to bring personality into a house," says John Loecke, an interior designer based in Brooklyn, N.Y., who has recently added wallpaper to homes in Louisiana, Iowa and Connecticut...
...will you ensure that the NBA doesn't face baseball's problem with steroids? -Mike Diaz, Brooklyn, N.Y.We test every athlete four times, at random, between the beginning of training camp and the end of the postseason. We contract that work out to an independent agency. We think it's working pretty well, although you never know until you read the newspapers...
...Jerry and Phish, the first state with civil unions for gays, the last state with a Wal-Mart and the only state that President Bush has somehow neglected to visit. (Naylor likes to say that Bush is the unofficial membership director for his secession movement.) One Vermont Senator, Brooklyn-born Bernie Sanders, is an avowed socialist; the other, Pat Leahy, is a liberal Democrat perhaps best known for being told by the Vice President on the Senate floor to go "f--k yourself." When Manhattan-born Howard Dean served as governor, he was considered pretty conservative for a Vermont politician...