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...ingenious. The government gets in first with its version of the news," says Bandurski, "and we can surmise that it's accompanied by a propaganda department directive barring the city papers from covering the event so they have to use the official version." Bandurski believes that the credibility of market-oriented papers, like the Southern Metropolis Daily, is significantly higher than that of the older papers, whose readership has been steadily declining for years...
...department store. The employees marched six miles, from Harlem to Herald's Square, dressed as clowns, knights and cowboys. Marching bands and animals from the Central Park Zoo accompanied the parade's first floats: The Old Lady Who Lived in a Shoe, Miss Muffet and Red Riding Hood. The event attracted a quarter of a million people and was deemed a roaring success. Macy's decided to make it an annual event...
...first time. The parade was suspended between 1942-1944 when the balloons were recycled into 650 lbs. of rubber and donated to the war effort. New Yorkers were so overjoyed by the return of the parade in 1945 that over 2 million people turned out for the event...
...physical activity - that is, when they analyzed the data by assuming identical levels of exercise in both depressed and non-depressed patients - the difference in heart disease risk between the groups disappeared. Indeed, inactivity among the depressed patients gave them a 44% greater risk of having a heart event than people who were not depressed, accounting for nearly all of the depressed patients' 50% higher risk. Picking up the remainder of the increased risk was cigarette smoking...
Harvard will maintain its investments in environmental initiatives despite the tightening University budget, Harvard administrators announced at an event in Sanders Theatre yesterday. Over the last two years, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has reduced its emissions by 8,300 tons of carbon dioxide—an improvement they say is worth the financial costs. “These are quite challenging times for the University and Faculty of Arts and Sciences,” said FAS Dean Michael D. Smith. “Despite all of the trouble, it’s clear that much good can come...