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...YORK??Retired general Wesley Clark joined the Democratic presidential candidates in debate for the first time last night...
...YORK??Remember teenage rebellion? When you were fifteen or sixteen, enjoying the heady days of sophomore year? Remember sneaking in at 2 a.m. on a Saturday night through the glass sliding door in your brother’s room with the nasty smaste (the crusty combination of smell and taste) of vomit in your sinuses, stumbling drunkenly through the hallway, tripping over the dog and falling asleep lying on your back with your head lolling off the corner...
...take years to switch back to natural produce—and it may already be completely impossible. By 2000, farmers in the U.S. alone were planting over 75 million acres—18 percent of the total cropland and an area three times larger than the state of New York??with GM crops, and this figure is increasing at an almost exponential rate. More worryingly, though, these GM crops are not only spreading through increases in voluntary planting, but clandestinely by migrating to and establishing themselves in previously GM-free fields...
...leading off an article with “NEW YORK??” or “BOSTON—” or “TIKRIT, Iraq—,” the author is attaching a seal of reliability to the story. It lends authority to the report, as if the writer gains more credibility for having seen the place with his or her own two eyes. It affords significance to the location from which someone is reporting. (Ironically, the datelined piece you are reading right now has almost nothing to do with the fact...
...YORK??I’ve developed a strange addiction to watching C-SPAN after midnight. I used to only watch Manhattan public access when I got the after-twelve TV craving—specifically “Spic ’n’ Spanish,” the saga of Big Al, a young Puerto Rican man who goes clubbing Monday-Sunday in pursuit of a perfectly shaped female ass to capture on his camcorder. Which of course, he’ll never find. No, instead Big Al has all sorts of other adventures, chasing women down...