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That's one side of Manhattan's quality of life, and until you can arrest people for hostility, it's not going to change. But there's also a flip side, and I got to see it this week, in Bryant Park. This two-block patch of green is the backyard of the New York Public Library, sitting serenely at one of the most famous and bloodthirsty intersections in the world, 42nd Street and 5th Avenue. Every Monday night in the summer, they show a movie on a giant outdoor screen; the show begins at sundown, about...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Food and Drug Administration Wednesday approved the first nicotine patch for sale without a prescription, hoping that more smokers will be induced to quit. Smokers have long called for the approval of nonprescription patches, which send more nicotine through the blood stream than the nicotine gum already available over the counter. The FDA's approval of McNeil Consumer Products' one-dose nicotine patch, Nicotrol, will give the company a marked edge over the competition by allowing its product -->
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Food and Drug Administration Wednesday approved the first nicotine patch for sale without a prescription, hoping that more smokers will be induced to quit. Smokers have long called for the approval of nonprescription patches, which send more nicotine through the blood stream than the nicotine gum already available over the counter. The FDA's approval of McNeil Consumer Products' one-dose nicotine patch, Nicotrol, will give the company a marked edge over the competition by allowing its product -->
...case, I get annoyed when people start preaching about what Asian-Americans can and can't be. As if we come pre-packaged, hair follicles glued in place a la Cabbage Patch Kids...
...garbage trucks function, and during the winter's snowstorms some city buses made up their routes according to which streets were passable. (Only 1 in 3 plows worked.) Now that it's spring, there are so many deep, unrepaired potholes that some neighbors have banded together to patch their own; others have resorted to throwing 25-lb. bags of mulch into them and, in the neighborhood of Kalorama, a mattress...