Word: manhattans
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...introduced a so-called "Madoff bill" in New York's legislature that, if passed, would require wealthy inmates to be billed for the cost of their prison stays - estimated at $90 per inmate per day. TIME spoke with Tedisco about the legislation's nickname, the "party palace" in a Manhattan jail that helped spark the proposed law and why lawmakers might want to let prisoners keep their TVs. (Read "The Penalty for 'Extraordinary Evil': Madoff Gets 150 Years...
...jeans magnate, has written a sizzling XXX-rated book, Obsession: An Erotic Tale. At 85, Vanderbilt is old enough to know better. What does her son, celebrated CNN newsman Anderson Cooper, think about Mom's latest project? TIME senior reporter Andrea Sachs checked in with the author at her Manhattan home...
...tough to envision that type of thing happening here, [if only] because we have so much land compared to South Korea. They value every square inch because they have to. But it's certainly possible that somebody could one day hatch a plan to add developed land to, say, Manhattan or the San Francisco peninsula...
...depending on where it is that you're trying to navigate. There are some situations in which trying to navigate using the cardinal directions is dooming yourself - [think of] cities with a very kind of organic layout like London or Paris. But contrast that with a grid city like Manhattan, where cardinal directions might make much more sense...
...slaughter - a debate repeated almost everywhere Canada geese are being culled. In New York City, it didn't help when Bloomberg commented that gassing geese amounted to "letting them go to sleep with nice dreams." Pro-goose activists picketed at Union Square as well as at Bloomberg's posh Manhattan home. "Are we going to extinguish every single bird in the sky?" asks Edita Birnkrant, New York director of Friends of Animals...