Google updates privacy policy Breitbart | Google updated its privacy policy on Friday, a day after a video cartoon fe... | Google updated its privacy policy on Friday, a day after a video cartoon featuring the Internet firm's chief giving away ice cream to snoop on children aired on a giant screen in Times Square. | "We're simplifying and...
Chimp springs surprise on zoo staff by giving birth to healthy baby girl at the ... The Daily Mail | A 56-year-old chimpanzee has stunned staff at an American zoo by giving birth to a healthy baby girl. | Keepers at Sunset Zoo in Manhattan, Kansas, had been aware that Susie had been pregnant after undergoing and ultrasound in July. | But the arrival of a baby female chimp last week still came as ...
African Art Museum Again Delays Opening of Site on Fifth Avenue The New York Times | Citing construction delays, the Museum for African Art said on Friday that it had pushed back the planned opening of its new Manhattan home by about six months, from April 2011 to September or October of that year. Related | Pulling Museum Mile Upt...
In a Forest of Instruments, Signs of Evolution The New York Times | At this summer’s classical music concerts, you could of course find a healthy array of violins, trumpets and cellos. But amid the familiar strings and brass have sprouted some odd instruments and strange adaptations of standard ones. Michelle...
New York Poll Finds Wariness for Muslim Site The New York Times | Two-thirds of New York City residents want a planned Muslim community center and mosque to be relocated to a less controversial site farther away from ground zero in Lower Manhattan, including many who describe themselves as supporters of the proje...
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Hotels Entice Customers With Lure of TV Life The New York Times | In a city like New York, there are many reasons to pick a particular watering hole: a sympathetic bartender, a selective jukebox, the collection of patrons bellied up alongside y...
Federal judge strikes down Calif. gay marriage ban Herald Tribune | SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge overturned California's gay marriage ban Wednesday with an unequivocal ruling that could eventually force the U.S. Supreme Court to confront the q...
BlackBerry Maker Resists Governments' Pressure The New York Times | A top executive of Research In Motion, the Canadian company that makes BlackBerry smartphones, said on Tuesday that his company would not give in to pressure from foreign governm...
The Friendliest Young Woman in the Room Wall Street Journal By JO PIAZZA | Giovanna Coluccio was none too happy to be tipped with a fruit roll-up. | "We'll hit an ATM later," a 23-year-old guy wearing a button-down and a backpack told her, curiously free of the requisite sheepishness that tipping an attractiv...
How to get ahead in advertising The Independent | But for Saatchi & Saatchi, the London advertising agency founded 40 years ago next week, you mightn't be reading this page. Indeed, there just mightn't have been an Independent at all - something in the time-space continuum could've gone slip-slidi...
Furniture as Sculpture: A Craftsman's Legacy The New York Times | The Pennsylvania carver and sculptor Wharton Esherick, known for his mid-20th-century undulating furniture, did not start out in woodworking. Instead he spent decades painting Cubist and Impressionist landscapes and portraits and designing prints, ...
Google updates privacy policy Breitbart | Google updated its privacy policy on Friday, a day after a video cartoon fe... | Google updated its privacy policy on Friday, a day after a video cartoon featuring the Internet firm's chief giving away ice cream to snoop on children aired on a giant screen in Times Square. | "We're simplifying and updating Google's privacy policies," Google assoc...
New Yorkers' Support for Islamic Center Is Uncertain, Poll Finds The New York Times | Two-thirds of New York City residents want a planned Muslim community center and mosque to be relocated to a less controversial site away from ground zero in Lower Manhattan, including many who say they favor the project, according to a New York Times poll. Josh Haner/The New York Times | Caroline Hunt, a resident of Manhattan, said she felt loca...
