Word: bronx
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McCarthy wanted the mayor to get back to his day job. "I grabbed my chiefs and said, 'Look what the mayor has to do to raise his comfort level,'" McCarthy says in his thick Bronx accent. "'Why aren't you guys making sure that he's not uncomfortable?'" Whether the cameras, Booker's patrols or the Policing 101 measures instituted by McCarthy - moving more officers to night and weekend shifts, when, get this, crime is more likely to happen - were most responsible for the turnaround, the results are stunning. Murders dropped 36% in Newark - from 105 to 67 - from...
...during their third trimester of pregnancy, capturing both indoor and outdoor air quality. Based on the results, they were divided into high-PAH-exposure and low-exposure groups. The mothers were healthy, nonsmoking black and Dominican-American women, ages 18 to 35, living in northern Manhattan and the South Bronx - not far from Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health, where Perera is a professor. (Read "The Risks [and Rewards] of Pills and Pregnancy...
...What specific experiences as a doctor shaped your views on health care? In the public emergency rooms in the Bronx where I went to medical school and in my office. I once had a young woman who came to me who turned out to have diabetes and was dropped by her insurance company as soon as the renewal date came up. I've never forgotten that...
Watch TIME's video "Sonia Sotomayor: Bronx (and Baseball) Role Model...
...Roberts and Justice Alito for effectively overruling the court's precedents without acknowledging that they were doing so." Pausing between each carefully chosen word, Sotomayor responded that, while there are times when precedent should be reexamined, those should be done "very, very cautiously." (Watch TIME's video "Sonia Sotomayor: Bronx (and Baseball) Role Model...