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Forget Hops, how about chocolate in your beer? - The Chicago Tribune, July 2008 Homebrewers are using everything from chocolate and coffee to vanilla beans and heather to flavor beer. |
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Bringing Morocco to Manhattan - The Humble Gourmand, May 2008 Ever since he came to the U.S. in his early 20s, to work for Disney’s Epcot Center, Karim Bouskou has considered himself a cultural representative for Morocco. |
| Forget polls... Political T-shirt sales might tell it all - The Sierra Vista Herald, April 8, 2008 This hot election season, political merchandise is flying off the Internet, leaving some merchants to place bets on a winner based on which T-shirts are selling best. |
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At 50, the peace symbol is still going strong - AZ Central, Feb. 22, 2008 Fifty years ago this month Englishman Gerald Holtom, a conscientious objector during World War II, designed the [peace] symbol for the antinuclear group Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War. |
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A Day in the Life: Clinton St. Baking Company - The Humble Gourmand, Feb. 2008 Clinton St. Baking Company is known for its pancakes. For a Sunday brunch, the cooks upstairs will go through six paint bucket-size vats of pancake batter, which are mixed up in the downstairs kitchen. |
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Combating graffiti, one mailbox at a time - The Manhattan Times, Nov. 15, 2007 In his three years of painting over vandalized mailboxes in Inwood, one of the worst moments for Martin Collins came a few weeks ago when kids pelted him with rocks while he was working on a box on Post Avenue. Collins called the police but said the culprits ran before help arrived. Despite being a bit shaken, the 43-year-old lifelong Inwood resident continues to go out every other weekend to paint mailboxes defaced by graffiti. He said he also has a strategy to avoid further assaults: "Move quickly, no eye contact and get on to the next box." |
| Local businesses get a boost - The Manhattan Times, Nov. 1, 2007 Glenis Henriquez never turns down an invitation to speak to minority and women-owned business owners about the benefits that come with getting certified by the city. But with only a handful of businesses in Northern Manhattan that are certified as minority or woman-owned, the director of external affairs for New York City¹s Department of Small Business Services had even more reason to give her third presentation of the day at Arka Lounge on Oct. 25. |
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| Uptown synagogues see membership increase as area grows in popularity - The Columbia Journalist, Oct. 29, 2007 Inwood Hebrew Congregation¹s story is one familiar to many synagogues in upper Manhattan‹a story of a once booming membership that declines as the neighborhood changes. But while several synagogues have shut down or merged in response to dwindling numbers, today just blocks away from the now-closed Inwood congregation, some synagogues in Washington Heights say they are experiencing regeneration. |
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| School squirms under mayoral control - The Manhattan Times, Oct. 4, 2007 Muscota New School in Inwood doesn¹t give its students letter grades, but it may still feel the effects of report cards when they¹re released this month. That¹s because the public elementary school for kindergarteners through fifth graders will receive a report card of its own from Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who for the first time will officially hand out letter grades to all New York City public schools.ext forthcoming. |
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Harnessing the Sun - Smart HomeOwner Magazine, May 2006 For Steven and Wiebke Theodore, sustainable building comes with the territory. Based in coastal Maine, the husband-and-wife team, both architects, takes cues from traditional New England architecture when designing new homes. |
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