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Legend has it that the Ramones spent about $6,000 recording this debut, which leads to an obvious question: Where'd all the money go? On the original, these 14 tracks sound as if they were mixed on a runway at LaGuardia, but the playing is impressively clean, given its speed (no song lasts longer than 2:40). Joey's singing also proves you don't need range to sound exuberant...
...permitted to fly up and down Manhattan Island, over either the East River or the Hudson River to the west. Since much of the surrounding air space is the busiest in the U.S. - with hundreds of airliners and business jet flights going in and out of John F. Kennedy, LaGuardia, Newark International and Teterboro airports, small planes are required to fly below 1,100 feet...
...best mayors in U.S. history have been great characters--showmen and radicals and bullies and rebels. Then again, so have the worst. Fiorello LaGuardia, who ruled New York from 1934 to '45, besides reforming and rebuilding his city, was famous for smashing slot machines with a sledgehammer and reading the comics to children over the radio during a newspaper strike. On the other hand, Chicago's William (Big Bill) Thompson, first elected in 1915, kept a picture of his good buddy Al Capone on his office wall and once conducted a debate between himself and two white rats, which...
...ghosts that haunt Shea Stadium do not emerge from opponents of Octobers past, but rather from brash investments that didn’t exactly work out. If you listen carefully and try to block out the din of airplanes flying overhead from LaGuardia Airport, you can make out the whispers of Mo Vaughn, Roberto Alomar, Shawn Estes, Pedro Astacio and Jeromy Burnitz, laughing as they count their money...
...LaGuardia said she is looking towards a tool called CrossRef to blend the ease of Google with existing library systems. The utility is being developed by Google in conjunction with 29 major academic publishers...