News tagged with new yorker
NYC mayor to announce solar plants at landfills
(AP) -- New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is set to release the first update to his city's 4-year-old environmental plan.
Apr 21, 2011 |
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Google buys New York office building
Google said Wednesday that it had purchased an 18-story building in New York to house its more than 2,000-strong workforce in the city.
Dec 22, 2010 |
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New York noise levels a threat to hearing: study
New York is still such a noisy city that its inhabitants could suffer from significant hearing loss in coming years, a study made public Wednesday has found.
Oct 27, 2010 |
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NYC study: 50 native plants disappearing
(AP) -- Oriental Bittersweet was an exotic foreigner still found mostly in East Asia when the New York Botanical Garden planted its first specimen in 1897.
Apr 03, 2010 |
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'Coffee Talk' Disappearing In Native New Yorkers
In the early 1990s, comedian Mike Myers regularly dressed up in a giant wig, gaudy fake nails and gigantic sunglasses to become Linda Richman -- a stereotypical New Yorker who had fits of feeling "verklempt" ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jan 20, 2010 |
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New Yorkers beware! New cockroach hits the Big Apple
New Yorkers are used to fighting each other for space, but there may be a new contender in town according to a Rockefeller study that appears to have uncovered a new species of cockroach.
Dec 24, 2009 |
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Wikileaks releases pager intercepts from 9/11
Whistleblower website Wikileaks began publishing on Wednesday what it said were hundreds of thousands of pager messages from the day of the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington.
Nov 25, 2009 |
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Another hepatitis case linked to Colorado hospital
(AP) -- Another hepatitis C case has been linked to a Denver hospital where an infected surgery technician is accused of swapping her dirty syringes for ones filled with a powerful painkiller meant for patients.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 17, 2009 |
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7 in NY charged in Craigslist prostitution ring
(AP) -- Seven people have been indicted on charges of running a 24-hour prostitution ring on Craigslist, New York's attorney general announced Wednesday, the day after Craigslist's CEO filed a lawsuit to keep South Carolina's ...
May 20, 2009 |
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NYC officials: Latest swine flu cases mostly mild
(AP) -- A day after a swine flu outbreak shut down three public schools in New York City, officials said Friday the virus is spreading faster than seasonal flu does, but the symptoms have generally been mild.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 15, 2009 |
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NYC mayor says 28 swine flu cases from 1 school
(AP) -- Twenty-eight students at a private New York City high school have confirmed cases of swine flu and 17 more probably have it, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday. City officials sought to distinguish ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 26, 2009 |
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NY county ban on baby bottle chemical is official
(AP) -- A suburban New York county has adopted the nation's first ban on the chemical found in plastic baby bottles and sippy cups.
Apr 02, 2009 |
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