Word: manhattanization
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...first day at work, I got lost among the soaring skyscrapers of midtown Manhattan and arrived to check in with the receptionist with only five minutes to spare. After filling out the requisite paperwork, I rode to the 24th floor only 10 minutes late. I chatted with the security guard via intercom and then stepped into the gray and green hallway that would be my office for the next eight weeks. The place was completely empty. My coworker Miriam cheerily informed me at 9:45 that no one comes in on Mondays. The other interns...
...Dodgers—a team that embraced Brooklyn’s underdog role and uniquely represented a borough rather than a city—Brooklynites found a metaphor for their municipal existence and rooted like mad for “Dem Bums” to outshine their pretentious Manhattan neighbors. When the team left, Brooklyn’s spirit of resistance perished, and it soon became just another borough. The word “Brooklyn” had originally come from the Dutch word for “Broken Land,” but only became appropriate once the Dodgers...
...First they started flying their low-fare, high-quality service from New York's John F. Kennedy Airport, which most citizens in Manhattan think of as about as close as Greenland. Then they decided to use Airbus A320 airplanes for their airline - another odd move, given that the industry thought Airbus planes were too expensive and burned too much fuel for a reasonably-priced carrier to make money. Then JetBlue became the first - and only - U.S. airline to give you your own TV set in coach (really, a screen in the seatback in front of you, but with 24 channels...
...least two Sex in the City vamps, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kristin Davis. All three Dixie Chicks. Sports stars from basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to Yankee pitcher Orlando (El Duque) Hernandez are devotees. And speaking of athletes, who showed up recently at Turlington's lower Manhattan haunt, the Jivamukti Yoga Center? Monica Lewinsky...
...sensible practice of yoga does more than slap a Happy Face on your cerebrum. It can also massage the lymph system, says Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiac surgeon at New York Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan. Lymph is the body's dirty dishwater; a network of lymphatic vessels and storage sacs crisscross the entire body, in parallel with the blood supply, carrying a fluid composed of infection-fighting white blood cells and the waste products of cellular activity. Exercise in general activates the flow of lymph through the body, speeding up the filtering process; but yoga in particular promotes the draining...