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New on Prince St.
McNally Robinson is a family-owned chain of bookstores with outlets in Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Calgary…and now Soho. Throwing conventional wisdom to the wind, the new 7,000 square foot store will try to match Barnes and Noble for breadth and reach.
To the market we go
Ron Scherer, New York bureu chief for the Christian Science Monitor
focuses on the economy on Merck offering executives large bouyouts, Thanksgiving shopping and the appointment of Gutierrez
» Christian Science Monitor
and
Stephen Schurr US Capital Markets Editor for the Financial Times
on Merck offering executives large bouyouts, Thanksgiving shopping and the appointment of Gutierrez
» Financial Times
New On Prince St.
Sarah McNally, owner of McNally Robinson, a new independent bookstore opening on Prince Street, is expanding her mini-chian of bookstores from the high plains of Canada to the wilds of Soho
» McNally Robinson
What Patients Never Learn
Atul Gawande, New Yorker writer, says there is a big difference between the care different hospitals offer.
» "The Bell Curve" in this week's New Yorker
Bagging Plastic
Mark Murray, executive director of Californians Against Waste, says a proposed tax on plastic bags in San Francisco will help the environment
» Californians Against Waste
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Donna Dempsey, Executive Director for the Society of Plastics Industry's Film and Bag federation
» Society of Plastics Industry's Film and Bag federation
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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 [40]
Tweet If You Use Twitter
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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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