Word: manhattanization
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...League, she is weighing scholarship offers from two: $10,000 a year from Rice University in Houston, and $25,000 a year from Tulane in New Orleans. Julie's status as an A student with 1520 SATs attracted these offers, even though her father Jerry, a Manhattan lawyer, earns too much to qualify for a financial-aid package based on need...
...wacky show-biz satire he wrote more than 30 years ago. "It's the story of a caterpillar who becomes a butterfly--that's Leo Bloom," says Brooks. "And that's me. A little kid from Brooklyn who finally made it across the vast East River to Manhattan, to Broadway. That's a journey that is as great as from the Alleghenies to the Rockies." You made it, Mel. --With reporting by Amy Lennard Goehner/New York
...reverse the flow of the universe. Give me your dorks, your losers, your thick-chained mooks from Jersey yearning to get lucky. For them I would open the golden door while the beautiful people waited outside. I could do this because Lotus, the hardest club to get into in Manhattan, let me work the velvet rope as doorman last Thursday, giving me complete control over who entered. I called all my friends, told them to dress badly and show up after midnight. To up the dork content even further I sent an e-mail to the entire TIME staff, many...
...passionate defense of human rights and the environment and early opposition to the war in Vietnam led to his dismissal as editor of the editorial page by his cousin the publisher but helped to establish the Times's liberal voice; on April 5, following a stroke last month; in Manhattan...
...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 over 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...