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Kudos to Michael Elliott for his down-to-earth description of New York City as the champion of globalization in its most positive form [ESSAY, Feb. 4]. As a displaced New Yorker and the daughter of immigrants, I read his piece several times. Elliott captured what makes the city work. It is loving one another's food, celebrating one another's holidays (even if we're not sure what they are about), riding the subways like sardines packed in a can and working together--and dying together, as Sept. 11 proved. It is a living U.N. The macrocosm...
...inventors would probably be willing to share any award. The three were right on the money. The shareholders in their company, Patent Enforcement & Royalties, which trades on the Canadian Venture Exchange, are entitled to 50% of a $3 million January verdict against Land O'Lakes for infringing a New Yorker's patent of a low-fat coffee creamer. Three weeks ago, Conair, the hair-appliance maker, was ordered to pay a German inventor $28.5 million in back royalties for a device that prevents electric shock when driers get wet. "When the little guy needs help, that's where we come...
...Yorker Levi Browde, a 29-year-old software engineer and Falun Gong practitioner, struck first. "I wanted people in China to see that Falun Gong is embraced around the world," he says. So he and a friend took a taxi to Tiananmen Square on Feb. 11, unfurled a banner reading FALUN GONG IS GOOD and in seconds were carted away by police. Three days later, more than 40 foreign demonstrators raced through the square as police chased them past astonished Chinese tourists who were spending the weeklong holiday in the capital. The foreigners had come, said the state-run Xinhua...
Hometown: She must be from the States, judging from the fact that she’s got a pro-choice poster up. Very rarely would an international student have something like that up. I would argue that she’s a New Yorker, as half the school seems to be. I doubt she’s from the city, but rather from some random town in Long Island or something. Her room isn’t eccentric enough that I’d guess she’s from a major city...
...although she has yet to obtain a driver's license, the New Yorker has proved herself a deft navigator of the skating circuit. She is a crafty competitor with enough international experience to know--and deliver--what the judges like to see. She bested both Kwan and Russian star Irina Slutskaya at an international competition in November, becoming the first U.S. skater to beat Kwan since Tara Lipinski did it at the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano, Japan...