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UAE Host UN High-Level Thematic Debate on Energy-Water Nexus in New York
WAM NEW YORK: May 18th, 2013 (WAM): The United Arab Emirates (UAE) partnered with the President of the 67th Session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly to host a high-level, thematic debate titled "Sustainable Development and Climate Change: Practical Solutions in the Energy-Water Nexus" on 16 May 2013 at the UN Headquarters in New York. Government leaders and a diverse ...
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UPDATE 1-Investigators seek cause of New York commuter train crash
Sat May 18, 2013 2:05pm EDT (Updates with car safety, ridership numbers) By Karen Brooks May 18 (Reuters) - Federal investigators on Saturday searched for the cause of a rush-hour train crash in Connecticut that injured dozens of people commuting home from New York City, three of them critically. More than 60 people were hospitalized Friday night after an eastbound commuter train derailed and ...
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Metro-North train crash probe may take 10 days
Emergency workers respond Friday to a Metro-North Railroad train collision in Fairfield, Conn. The railroad said it derailed and hit a westbound train near Bridgeport, Conn. Some cars on the second train also derailed. / Christian ...
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Queens Councilman bashes Delta terminal concessionaires after taking donation from airline
Talk about biting the hand that feeds you!City Councilman Donovan Richards turned up at a ceremony Thursday morning to accept a $100,000 donation from Delta Airlines for the opening of a YMCA in his Rockaways district.That night, the Queens Democrat turned up at a community rally to protest that concessionaires at the new $1.4 billion Delta terminal at JFK were paying wages as low as $8 an ...
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Soccer-Vilanova needs more cancer treatment in New York
At 16 years old, Jack Andraka is already a superstar in the field of science. Earlier this year, he won Intel's prestigious Gordon E. Moore Award, when he created a groundbreaking testing method that can detect pancreatic cancer in its earliest stages. His work is expected to save thousands of ...
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Todays MLB starting lineups May 18
Below are starting lineups that have been made public by the clubs. A lineup is not official until it is handed to the umpire. Additional lineups will be added as they become available: Chicago Cubs: 1. ...
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Onondaga County Republican Committee designates candidates for city and county races
No surprises emerged at today's joint meeting of the Syracuse and Onondaga County Republican committees, Syracuse Republican Chairman Bob Andrews ...
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Hard days fight Founders of Beatles tribute band sue co-producer for allegedly knocking off their act
An imitation Beatles band is upset that another bunch of Fab Four fakers could soon be here, there and everywhere.The founding members of "Rain - A Tribute to The Beatles" sued their co-producer yesterday for allegedly knocking off their act for a British production called "Let It Be" that’s expected to open on Broadway in July.Court papers also allege that Jeff Parry ...
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State spending $90M upgrading parks historic sites
ALBANY — The Cuomo administration says about $90 million will be spent this year on construction projects at 50 of the ...
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Heights transports you to New York neighborhood
May 18--BOSTON -- SpeakEasy Stage Company's "In the Heights" so convincingly envelops the audience in a corner of a not-so-long-ago Washington Heights neighborhood in New York City that it might take a minute to get your bearings when you leave Boston Center for the Arts and find yourself in the South End. The sense of elsewhere is due in part to Jenna McFarland Lord's scenic ...
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First Rentals Native New York Style
Back to New York for Julio Gomez, 22, center, means an address not in his boyhood Bronx, but in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. For Harris Meyers, 21, left, it's the old parental abode in Gramercy Park. For Floy Salembier, 22, it's Peter Cooper Village, many blocks south of her childhood ...
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Yoshitomo Nara Exhibit Surveys His Unique Brand Of Kute Kulture In New York
On the surface, [Nara's works are] pretty damn cute. But Nara has stepped outside that world in a big way, " Byrne wrote in the catalogue essay for Nara's newest exhibition in New York. "The kids and dogs in his pictures and bronzes are defiant, angry, annoyed, and pissed off. They have rebelled against their roots, and their big eyes are cold." The exhibit, on view now ...
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Three bargaining units want Pres. Larson to resign
In this 2011 photo, Cayuga Community College president Daniel P. Larson stands outside the former P&C store at River Glen Plaza, in Fulton, NY. which has since become a campus for the ...
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Canada uneasy about oil-sands byproduct accumulation
A member of the Canadian Parliament said he wants an investigation with the United States into a three-story mound of coke piling up at a refinery in Ontario. The coke is a by-product of the refining of oil sands and has been piling up quickly at the Marathon refinery in Windsor along the Detroit River. "Here's a little bit of Alberta," said Brian Masse, one of Windsor's ...
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Cops investigating after Long Island college student killed
By Frank Eltman Associated Press UNIONDALE, N.Y. - Last Sunday Andrea Rebello, a 21-year-old Hofstra University junior studying public relations, posted a recipe for how to prepare July 4-themed strawberries covered in sparkling sugars on her blog. Less than a week later, Nassau County police announced that Rebello, who was with her twin sister Jessica and several other college students inside ...
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Human Rights Watch finds evidence of torture in Syrian prisons
Members of the Free Syrian Army perform prayers in Damascus in August 13, 2012 after government forces shelled a number of areas in northern Syria part of efforts by the regime to target rebel strongholds. ...
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Commuter rail snarled after Connecticut trains derail
It could take weeks to get commuter rail service in Connecticut back to normal following the derailment of two trains Friday, the mayor of Bridgeport said. The evening rush-hour derailment between Bridgeport and South Norwalk caused about 70 injuries and tore up the tracks, which Mayor Bill Finch said would need extensive repairs that would greatly complicate transportation into the New York ...
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4 LI store employees arrested for selling alcohol to a minor in underage drinking sting
Police say employees of four Long Island businesses have been arrested in an underage drinking sting.Suffolk County police sent a volunteer under the age of 21 to four businesses Friday night and had the person attempt to buy alcohol.Police say employees at all four businesses agreed to sell alcohol to the volunteer.They were two delis in Greenlawn and a convenience store and a tavern in ...
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Man shot dead on Village street corner police
A brazen gunman shot and killed a 25-year-old man on a Greenwich Village street corner last night, cops said.The victim was blasted in the head around midnight at West 8th Street and Sixth Avenue and died at Beth Israel ...
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Mayor Bloomberg privately fuming over snooping scandal
EXCLUSIVE Mayor Bloomberg is privately fuming at the data breach that has imperiled the reputation of his global media company, according to sources."The mayor is very upset," one source said of the scandal that has been dubbed Bloomberg Spygate.A second insider said that Bloomberg made known his feelings to company executives once Goldman Sachs complained that Bloomberg News ...
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Five people critically injured and sixty hospitalized after two New York commuter trains collide in Connecticut
Two commuter trains serving New York City collided in Connecticut during Friday's evening rush hour, sending 60 people to the hospital, including five with critical injuries, Gov. Dannel Malloy ...
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Albert Seedman Former Chief of Detectives in New York Dies at 94
New York Police Department 's chief of detectives in the early 1970s who became something of a celebrity as the savvy, cigar-chomping personification of the tough-guy cop while modernizing a tradition-bound force, died on Friday in Delray Beach, Fla. He was ...
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Pilot makes emergency landing at Newark Airport after landing gear malfunctions
The pilot of a twin-engine plane carrying 31 passengers made an emergency landing at Newark International Airport this morning after his landing gear malfunctioned, sources said.The US Air flight was arriving from Philadelphia about 1 a.m. when pilot Ed Powers noticed one of the landing gears was not down, Port Authority sources said. Powers raised the other gear and landed the plane on its ...
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Probe begins after Conn. commuter trains crash
FAIRFIELD, Conn. - Two commuter trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in an accident that sent more than 60 people to Connecticut hospitals, severely damaged the tracks and threatened to snarl travel in the congested Northeast ...
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Ride for Missing Children raises awareness builds hope
On Friday, hundreds of people from Central New York hopped on their bicycles and rode for about 90 miles to raise awareness for the thousands of missing children throughout America. The 17th annual Ride for Missing Children brought cyclists on a tour of schools in Central New York. Riders raised funds to create missing child posters, according to ...
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Buffalo Zoo goes ape for the gorillas
The Buffalo Zoo is a historic landmark in Buffalo city. It is the third oldest zoo in the United States and has an amazing array of over 1000 species of animal. The zoo is also a tourist attraction, bringing in 400 000 visitors each year.
Zoos are an important educational facility for children, a means by which younger generations can see wild and endangered animals in real life, in an environment as close as is reasonably possible to what their natural surroundings would be, and by seeing a real-life image, rather than a picture in a text book, children develop a more intimate understanding of the challenges facing these rare and beautiful creatures. Read more
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