Monthly Archive: February 2004

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Paradise On Earth

Rikers Island sits in the East River at the opening of Bowery Bay. Once it was small and bucolic and green, an 87-acre patch of land owned since 1664 by a family of early...

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Same Donkey, Different Blanket

It’s bad enough if your parents make a suprise visit when you’re say, away at College. But how would you handle it if your Mum popped up in the middle of Iraq when you’re...

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In a Western Town, A Dead End World

On bad days Toby said he worked as a “pipette bitch.” … Supposedly Toby was at the center of an economic revolution in biotech. The most-wanted jobs of the new millennium were in genomics;...

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Great Green Gouts

I got the flu. This was bad, but not unprecedented. What I was not prepared for was a secondary bacterial infection that turned me into a lean green snot-producing machine. Thankfully, this state of...

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Jack Bristow Strikes Again

So as revealed in the famous memo, the US ham-fistedly bugged the UN Security Council members during the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq. What’s now emerged is that the bugging enabled the US...

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B Boy Rampage?

So while the US Army stayed safe within its protected compound, a disciplined, heavily armed force overran key Iraqi positions and freed prisoners, slaughtering all resistance in its path. Some people are blaming the...

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Damned Lies

I heard yet another conservative pundit on the radio this morning dissing “Old Europe” and its high unemployment rate compared with the US. This is the usual line taken by people who have invented...

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Constraining Democracy

USians are often skeptical about claims that their archaic, undemocratic plurality voting system distorts people’s voting intentions and constrains their choices. However, this article clearly demonstrates the nefarious effects of one of the most...

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When Segways Attack!

A bizarre hit and run … took place in San Francisco on Tuesday between a 3-year-old girl and a Segway … Ruby Bleskacek sustained cuts, bruises and a nasty bump on her head …...