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New York City Council Speaker and potential candidate for Mayor Christine Quinn came out to another openly gay politician, while riding the subway.
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In response to an increase in anti-LGBT hate crimes, the New York City Council is spearheading public school initiatives to teach children tolerance.
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Mayor Bloomberg has brought a diversity of experience to City Hall, says the council speaker. Asked if she'll be vying for his job in 2013, she simply says she's focused […]
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"Internationally, there are lots of folks who want to come here, but the reality of the lack of immigration reform on the federal level actually makes it harder for companies […]
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Hospitality is just one of many industries that could make New York less reliant on Wall Street tax dollars, says Speaker Quinn.
Busy day for me here at the Department, so I just wanted to highlight some news, both from Merapi and beyond Merapi: The NASA Earth Observatory posted some great IR thermal images of a […]
Each and every democracy is sovereign. Each and every country, even if it is in alliance with others, has the sovereign right to make its own choices – albeit observing […]
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A conversation with the Speaker of the New York City Council.
After finishing The Help by Kathryn Stockett a couple of days ago, I just put the book down and sat still for a few minutes, letting the final remnants of […]
"Text messagers and computer gamers aren’t alone in the willful misspelling department. RNA molecules do it, too."
In Senegal, money from Europe represents close to 10% of GDP. The flows of capital generated by migrant workers exceeds the foreign development aid Senegal receives.
"Psychopaths are a paradox. Many of them, like Bundy, are intellectually high functioning, and they clearly know right from wrong. They are not delusional, they are socially inept."
"...green movements have continued to grow... What has changed is that a powerful counter-movement, led by corporate-funded thinktanks, has waged war on green policies."
"The whole focus on 'focus' is...an act of intellectual cowardice — a way to criticize President Obama’s record without explaining what you would have done differently."
"The United Nations has named oil-rich Norway as the country with the best quality of life, followed by Australia and New Zealand, while Asia has made the biggest strides."
"Much of the discussion about torture concentrates on the moral and ethical dilemmas involved, but...these arguments...are irrelevant if torture doesn't work in the first place."
"Suddenly art history (once again) finds itself being turned on its head as another aspect of the past gets unearthed and revised." This time the subject is the women Pop artists.
The narrow focus on 'lifestyle factors' has implied that when people get cancer, it’s their own fault. Is it time to focus more on environmentally induced cancers?rn
There has been a putative epidemic of bipolar among children in the U.S., and a corresponding rise in the pediatric use of antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, and other drugs.
Crowdsourcing has become a hotly contested innovation paradigm in recent months, drawing highly polarized opinions. While its creative merit in design has been publicly decried in the recent GAP logogate […]