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WorkAtHome (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Home Work As Housing Slows, What of Décor-Speak?New York Times, United States - 9 minutes agoOver the last several years, a nation that could barely pronounce “duvet” has been burbling with an upscale glossary of home glam: palettes and focal points …
WorkAtHome (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Bringing Special-Needs Schools Closer to HomeNew York Times, United States - 2 hours ago“It was always a concern, but Billy’s Law put a spotlight on it and gave real impetus for state agencies to work together to develop and expand in-state …
The Jew and the Carrot (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
If ever there was a day for foodies to curl up with a mug of fair trade coffee and the newspaper, today’s the day. The New York Times Magazine’s (first ever, I believe) Food Issue hit stands this morning, so if you haven’t already scanned the whole thing online, find yourself a comfortable chair [...]
Left I on the News (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Politics? War? Nah. The Sunday crossword puzzle. :-) 8-Down: Precision Answer: Accuracy Arggggghhhhh! I solved the entire puzzle in 10.21345 minutes. That statement provides information with great precision. It's also completely inaccurate. Accuracy and precision are not synonyms.
Sweetness & Light (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Granted, the screed posted below is what the New York Times laughingly calls an editorial. But its author, Timothy Egan, has only very recently begun writing editorials. Before then his editorials appeared in the news section: About Timothy Egan Timothy Egan worked for 18 years as a writer for The New York Times, first as the Pacific [...]
murketing (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
MILK CARTOON: Co-opting the kids’-entertainment-character marketing strategy for a lunchroom staple Today, as part of a special food-themed issue of the New York Times Magazine, Consumed looks at an effort to get kids to drink more milk — by putting pop culture branded characters on the cartons. As the Milk Media Web site puts it, “We introduced the [...]
Bostonist (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Gail Collins' recent op-ed in the New York Times waxes nostalgic about the old days of the presidential campaign, before we lost Mitt Romney and met Sarah Palin: Maybe the Republicans should have picked somebody else. I miss Mitt Romney. Sure, he was sort of smarmy. But when Mitt was around, the banks had money and Iceland was solvent. And, of course, when we got bored, we could always talk about...
WorkAtHome (Free subscription) | yesterday
In a Home Like Many Others, Uncertainty in Every Check of the MarketNew York Times, United States - 34 minutes agoTo think that Mr. Pappas’s day had begun so nicely, with time off from work to take the kids to a pumpkin patch in Westfield. Now Sebastian, 4, is watching …
beSpacific (Free subscription) | yesterday
New York Times: "The United States is failing to develop the math skills of both girls and boys, especially among...
Ballbug (Free subscription) | yesterday
Dave Anderson / New York Times : An Ebbets Field Confession From That ‘Brennan’ Kid — If confession is good for the soul, it's even more healing when it occurs after more than 60 years and some 3,000 miles from the site of the dastardly deeds. — Bob Natiello, who grew up in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn …
Grasping Reality with Both Hands (Free subscription) | yesterday
Michael Berube speaks to conservatives: > [Y]ou could take poor flailing David Brooks as a model. One day after this humble blog suggested that high-end conservative pundits will slurp down any old slop they’re fed by the party, Brooks was slopping out this review of Sarah Palin’s debate performance: > > this debate was about Sarah Palin. She held up her end of an energetic debate that gave voters...
Pat's Fantasy Hotlist (Free subscription) | yesterday
In hardcover: Stephenie Meyer's The Host is down three positions, ending the week at number 10. Neal Stephenson's Anathem is down seven spots, finishing its third week on the charts at number 15. For more info about this title: Canada , USA , Europe . Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's Paul of Dune is down seven positions, ending its second week on the NYT list at number 18. For more info about...
Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn (Free subscription) | yesterday
This article by David Shaftel about Jamie Livingston and the Photo-of-the-Day Project is on the City Visible page of The City Section of the New York Times. As a senior at Bard College in 1979, Jamie Livingston acquired a Polaroid camera. After a few weeks, he noticed that he was taking about one picture a day, and shortly thereafter he decided to continue doing so. After a few weeks, he noticed that...
NEWS COMPASS (Free subscription) | yesterday
By SERGE F. KOVALESKI Read here in New York Times VIDEO-CLIP: Sarah Palin Found Guilty Of Ethics Violations Gov. Sarah Palin ABUSED the powers of her office by pressuring subordinates to try to get her former brother-in-law, a state trooper, fired, an investigation by the Alaska Legislature has concluded . The inquiry found, however, that she was within her right to dismiss her public safety commissioner,...
The Jose Vilson (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
A few notes: - Math skills suffering in the United States according to the NYTimes? Definitely. - I’ve been so busy, I’m wondering if I built enough consistency with the kids to really affect real change. - I saw one of my students on the train on my way to a training. She was supposed to be a [...]
