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Tough Choices
Where to send a child to school can be one of the most daunting decisions a parent faces, especially in New York City. What is the balance between cost and quality, principle and pragmatism? Find out what the choices are from advocates for public and private education.
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E.P. In D.C.: Our Occasional Washington Round-Up
Elaine Povich Washington Correspondent for Newsday http://www.newsday.com/
The Third Rail For Amtrak? Should States Take Over For The Money-Losing Railroad?
Scott Leonard Assistant Director, National Association of Railroad And Nancy Rutledge Connery Member of the Amtrak Reform Council, and an independent researcher and policy advisor on infrastructure, transportation, and community development
Nurse Jekyll and Doctor Hyde: The Impact of Nurse-Physician Relations on Nurse Retention
Maureen McCarthy Registered Nurse in the Recovery Room at Lenox Hill Hospital and President of the New York Professional And Alan H. Rosenstein Physician and Vice President and Medical Director of Voluntary Hospitals of America-West Coast Division
Hobson's Choice? Choosing Between Public and Private Schools
Clara Hemphill Author and Head of Public School Information Center at Advocates for Children New York City's Best Public High Schools. A Parents' Guide (Teachers College Press, Columbia University, 2001 And Catherine Hausman Author, The Manhattan Family Guide to Private Schools (Soho Press,2001) And Robin Aronow Psychotherapist and Educational Consultant
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The Rocky Road Ahead
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Ray Young, the chief financial officer of General Motors, talks about GM’s bankruptcy.
Then, Damon Lester, president of the National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers, and Greg Williams, former owner of the recently closed Huntington Chevrolet in Huntington Station, NY., discusses the effect GM’s bankruptcy has had on dealerships and their employees.- Comments [41]
Tweet If You Use Twitter
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Farhad Manjoo, Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society talks about what Twitter means and how different groups use it.
What's your take on Twitter? How do you use it? Comment below!- Comments [15]
Don't Say That, Literally
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John Flansburgh of the band They Might Be Giants discusses the running list the band keeps of "things we can no longer say." (a few examples: "my bad" "don't go there" "one hundred and ten percent" and "voted off the island")
What would be on your list of banned words or phrases? Comment below!- Comments [172]
From Denmark with Love
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Jesper Grunwald, senior managing editor with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, talks about the Danish economy, biking to work, and why the Danes are allegedly the happiest people in the world.
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Squatting, Then and Now
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As former squats in the East Village make the transition to coops, making homes from abandoned housing is again an issue. Andrew Reicher executive director of Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, Frank Morales an Episcopal priest involved in East Village/Lower East Side squatting and homelessness activism since the late '70s, and Rob Robinson, a leader of the Housing Campaign of Picture the Homeless, discuss the return of squatting.
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