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...19th century, ice delivery men visited American homes as regularly as milk men, depositing large cubes into ice boxes made of wood and often lined with tin. According to Dupont, which later invented the coolant Freon, ice was harvested where it formed naturally - including from New York City's rivers - and shipped to the South, all in the name of food storage. In the 1840s, a Florida physician named John Gorrie, trying to cool the rooms where patients were suffering from yellow fever, figured out how to make ice using mechanical refrigeration, paving the way for household refrigerators that appeared...
...Fares. Act Now! Heading home to see the family for the holidays? Or flying out of town to get away? Check out American Airlines' big fare sale. Round-trip domestic fares start at $49 one-way from Dallas to St. Louis and $129 one-way from New York to San Diego. Internationally, you can go from Boston to London for $213 one-way or Los Angeles to Japan for $513 one-way. But decide quickly, tickets must be purchased...
...Blue is also having a sale: Fly from New York City to Oakland, San Jose or Long Beach, Calif., for $109 one-way, or from Burbank, Calif., to Las Vegas for $49 one-way. Hop on it. Fares must be booked...
Mobile Menu. Feed your pumpkin-pie sugar high at the Dessert Truck, parked in New York City's Midtown. The truck's famous bread pudding and dark chocolate mousse bombe are cooked up by former Le Cirque pastry sous chef Jerome Chang. It's high-end food at street-level prices, the new recession-era way to eat. The Dessert Truck is parked on Park Avenue, between 51st and 53rd Streets on weekdays from noon to 4 p.m.; at night, from 6 p.m. to midnight, it's at Third Avenue and 8th Street...
Rock Outreach. If you can't get to the original Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, the museum has opened a 25,000-sq.-ft. branch in downtown New York, focusing on that city's contribution to the music world. Admission is a steep $22, but the money buys you a look at David Byrne's Stop Making Sense suit, letters between Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel when they were teenagers, and a urinal from CBGBs, the legendary Lower East Side punk-rock club, which closed in 2006. 76 Mercer Street, New York City...