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It was time for one last centennial dance with Miss Liberty. Despite the bursting-in-air celebration on July 4, her actual birthday came last week. The threeday after-party party included a ceremony saluting Americans of varied ethnic backgrounds that were not all acknowledged in July. Among the 80...
In the wake of the Miami grand jury's decision, Florida Legislator James Burke intends to sponsor a law to allow businesses to use potentially deadly devices to protect property, if they report them to police and fire departments and put up a warning sign. Meanwhile, Rasheed and his attorney...
The 80 winners of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor announced last week were an eclectic roll call of America's ethnic heritage; among the recipients were Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Walter Cronkite and Muhammad Ali. But the list was even more varied than the award's sponsors realized. James Tamer...
It had all begun three generations ago, when Ellis Island teemed with immigrants. A few of them had gone west -- about 100 miles west (and north) of Manhattan -- to try farming Sullivan County, N.Y.'s inhospitable soil. Vegetables would not grow there, but debts did, and the farmers were obliged...
The new treatment is a form of immunotherapy, an experimental technique that has been refined substantially in the past five years as an alternative to surgery, radiation or chemotherapy. Immunotherapy enhances the immune system's disease-fighting capabilities by using some of the body's own chemical agents -- the interferons...