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Thursday, January 12, 2006

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Feeding the poor: Is city doing enough?

The number reportedly was taken from a 2005 survey released last month by the New York City Coalition Against Hunger. It remains unclear how this organization came up with the number or how credible it may be.

Gioia and Weiner are particularly up
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In Canada, they call them Monster Houses

It is amazing how we build so much for so few… years ago this spending was called conspicuous consumption. In a huge world full of poverty, restless people and places whose raw materials we need, must we spend money the way we do?

People build ve
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City Council should pick its battles better

At this writing, there is a portion of the Transport Workers Union that is so unhappy with the proposed settlement that was made after the strike that they are urging fellow workers to strike again. During the first strike, as communities within and outsi
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FDR Up Close At Senior Ctr.

John Q. Barrett discovered, edited and introduced Supreme Court Justice and chief Nuremberg prosecutor Robert H. Jackson’s acclaimed memoir on FDR.

Professor Barrett, the featured speaker from 2-3:30 p.m., March 16 in the Speaker Series for S
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Polytech Helps Take a ‘Byte’ Out of Cyber Crime

Polytechnic University’s Center for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications (CATT) was awarded a $1.6 million grant to further develop cybercrime detection and prevention with companies such as Verizon, Kodak, Lucent Technologies, AT&T Labs Researc
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Much Mulching Following Seasonal Merriment

Environmentally-friendly Brooklynites gave Mother Nature a late holiday gift by bringing their Christmas trees to a recycling site at Green-Wood Cemetery.

The fourth annual mulchfest – presented in conjunction with the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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Meyer Benezra, Attorney, Dies At 83

Meyer Benezra, an attorney and lifelong Brooklyn resident, died December 29, 2005 after a long illness. He was 83.

For nearly 60 years, Benezra practiced law in Manhattan, most recently at the firm of Weisman Celler Spett & Modlin. He was acti

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