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...registrants for my first century ride, sponsored by New York City's Five Borough Bicycle Club (the 5BBC). Though I took up recreational cycling only a year ago, at age 55, I have gradually increased my endurance, heading out on Saturday and Sunday mornings over the bridges of Manhattan toward beaches and landmarks 20 or more miles away. When the 5BBC announced a century ride to Montauk at the easternmost tip of Long Island in May, my biking buddy Jane and I, with a sense of adventure--and trepidation--mailed in our $52 registration fees for the metric. For beginners...
...like you were being cradled in a beautiful space." Maybe Gehry should have designed the Esalen Institute, given how much he talks about spaces that hug people. But sitting with him last week in the cafeteria he created for the headquarters of the Conde Nast publishing firm in midtown Manhattan, you could see what he means. The blue titanium walls bulge toward you like expectant mothers. The circular banquettes are surrounded by floor-to-ceiling sheets of plate glass, but each of them is uniquely curved and torqued so that together they form a voluptuous encirclement all around...
...April, Gehry also unveiled his model for yet another Guggenheim, this one in lower Manhattan, adjacent to the Brooklyn Bridge. Whether it gets built will depend on Guggenheim director Thomas Krens' ability to persuade enough people that New York City, which has a Guggenheim annex in SoHo, needs a third branch. Gehry's design will also have to overcome critics who say it will dominate the Manhattan skyline, which takes some doing, but a building by Gehry could...
Such was the consensus of TIME's Board of Economists, which gathered in late May in Manhattan to assess a rapidly changing business outlook. For the first time in at least two years, members concurred, not all economic systems are go. Imbalances are showing up, notably a worsening labor shortage and excessive consumer spending; signs of renewed inflation are real; stock markets have turned turbulent, to say the least. Allen Sinai, chief global economist of Primark Decision Economics, long contended that rising productivity in the new economy enables the U.S. to enjoy noninflationary increases in production much greater than once...
...easy to ridicule: valet parking at a dinner in urban Elizabeth, lavish events in expensive hotels with tuxedoed waiters carving prime rib, and salaries approaching a quarter-million dollars a year. Corzine didn't settle for the usual in-house opposition research but spent $200,000 instead on a Manhattan attorney who subcontracted the dirty work to private investigators. (Corzine claims he ended the arrangement as soon as he found out about...