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...early bird specials on Black Friday is never to go to bed the night before. That's how Christian Perdomo, 15, was able to snag one of the 200 free Samsung MP3 players that Old Navy gave away at its megastore on 34th Street in New York City, along with the $120 worth of clothes he had purchased by 6 a.m. But even though there were still some 200 people in line at dozens of registers by 10 a.m., Liz, a cashier, said, "I think last year was a little busier...
...popped, of course, so the next year officials released balloons again, but incorporated release valves designed to let the helium leak out slowly over the course of a week. The balloons' release received much publicity; Macy's claimed that they would float hundreds of miles away from New York before landing softly in fields or people's yards. Stitched into balloons was a return address, and those who found one could return it to Macy's for a $100 reward. Unfortunately their flights weren't so peaceful. Out of five balloons, three landed in Long Island (one was torn...
...fall off and hit 33-year-old Kathleen Caronna on the head. Caronna spent nearly a month in a coma, then sued Macy's and the city for $395 million. (The parties reached an undisclosed settlement in 2001.) Nine years later, in a strange twist of "only in New York" fate, Yankee relief pitcher Cory Lidle crashed his private airplane into Caronna's highrise apartment...
...country has agreed or even suggested that they are thinking about accepting these people for resettlement," says Padmanabhan, who recently left the State Department to become a visiting assistant professor at the Cardozo School in New York City. "China is a big country on the block, so people don't like to do things that anger the Chinese government." (See here for pictures from inside Guantánamo...
...least 50 people on Nov. 5 in the village of Kinwanja, a 20-minute walk down the road. This may explain the attempt to project a gentler face. "I think Kiwanja was a big tactical error," says Tatiana Carayannis, Congo expert at the Social Science Research Council in New York. In other words, this is not a change of direction. Rather, it's a switch of tactics by a pragmatic leader in pursuit of a single goal: power...