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'Mammas' is study in maternal instinct

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Isabella Rossellini's search for the meaning of maternal instinct in "Mammas" looks at nine animals where things like polygamy, lying and dying convince her that "anything goes." The program timed to air 5:30 p.m. Mother's Day on the Sundance Channel is just the latest offbeat offering from the model-actress, who gets in costume and plays the parts ... (more)


Tour Open Houses In Yorktown And Somers This Weekend

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McAnaw was born May 23, 1956, in Brooklyn, to Michael and Carol Ann McAnaw of Brooklyn.

Richmond Heights High School's singers hits right notes in Manhattan competition

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For the second straight year the Richmond Heights High School Choir blew away the competition during the Music Festival Competition, being named the Grand Champion Winners of the Big Apple Classic Choral Music Festival in New York City.

Alan Singer: Reclaiming the Conversation on Education

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On May 4, 2013 I attended a conference, Reclaiming the Conversation on Education , at Barnard College - Columbia University in New York City.

Stadium architect Janet Marie Smith speaks at Mississippi State graduation

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An internationally known architect of baseball stadiums, Janet Marie Smith, told graduates of Mississippi State University that hard work, passionate conviction and unwavering courage are skills that will help them succeed.

Jewish World The changing American Jew

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Our eNewspaper network was founded in 2002 to provide stand-alone digital news sites tailored for the most searched-for locations for news.

Jon Imber's nimble shifts capture life, in all its forms

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Good painting pulls at life, like the fingers of a plaintive child tugging at a parent's sleeve: Come and play! The paintings of Jon Imber have an unusually insistent pull - you feel something vital at stake - which is what makes the career survey of his work in the Godwin-Ternbach Museum at Queens College such a joy.

Sunday Screech: Carmine's power-broker breakfast

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I'm madder than an administrative secretary who had to bite her tongue while hearing her boss get showered with accolades after a successful event for all the hard work that she did making the event that he allegedly planned a success when everybody should have know that it was her all along, and he did nothing to deserve it, except hire her, ... (more)


W.Va. tries to tackle childhood hunger and obesity

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In West Virginia's Mason County, children walk to the cafeteria together so they can start the day's lessons with a side of whole grain waffles, cereal, fruit and milk.

Want to Know the Real Brooklyn? Take a Tour

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On last Friday's tour, Jeffrey Stirewalt took his group to Flatbush, where they visited Erasmus High School, Loews' Kings Theater, and a Dutch Reformed Church.

The week of May 13th on General Hopsital

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AJ and Tracy face off in the "Clash of the Condiments" on ABC's ' The Chew ' What will happen when someone meddles with the relish? Meanwhile, Sonny and Carly feel as if they have no control over Morgan's predicament.

Teaching seminars add up to second career for retired math professor

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Catherine Twomey Fosnot has traveled the United States, Canada and at times Europe to teach math teachers how to make math exciting and relevant to young students.

Physicists Light "Magnetic Fire" to Reveal Energy's Path

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New York University physicists have uncovered how energy is released and dispersed in magnetic materials in a process akin to the spread of forest fires, a finding that has the potential to deepen our understanding of self-sustained chemical reactions.

Free Diabetic Foot Screening in Orono

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New England Home Health Care is hosting a free diabetic foot screening in Orono this week.

To the End, Donald Kagan Argues for the Primacy of the West

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Since 1969, Donald Kagan has been an admired scholar and sought-after professor at Yale University, but a consistently contentious figure, too.


1 World Trade Center 55 percent leased

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Cranes work adjacent to the spire on top of One World Trade Center. The last piece of spire will be hoisted to the roof on Thursday.

Margalit Fox's 'The Riddle of the Labyrinth', the quest to decipher ancient writing

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The only thing keeping "The Riddle of the Labyrinth" from reading like a transcribed Indiana Jones blockbuster is the lack of an 11-hour physical chase.

Dr. Joyce Brothers, 85, giver of advice

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Joyce Brothers, 85, the pop psychologist who pioneered the television advice show in the 1950s and enjoyed a long and prolific career as a syndicated columnist, author, and television and film personality, died Monday of respiratory failure in New York.

Lumi*Solair Receives Prestigious Export Achievement Award From U.S. Department of Commerce

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The award recognizes the company's innovative work to tackle some of the world's toughest infrastructure problems with U.S. renewable energy technology.

Rose L. Volpe, wife of first College of Staten Island president, dies

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Rose Volpe and her husband Edmond are shown during a visit to the College of Staten Island in March 2007.

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