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Are plastics safe?
Special to The TimesTHIRTEEN-MONTH-OLD Solange Dorsainvil plays with toys made from wood and cloth, drinks from a Swiss-made aluminum sippy cup and teethes on kale stems and celery. Her life is as plastic-free as her mother, Celina Lyons, can make it. Celina, a Berkeley-...Tags: Toy Industry, Medicine, Infants, Research, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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EXPRESSWAY: Building a little bridge, two by two
Mark Frascinella lives in Mount Sinai.I have often wondered what it was like to witness the construction of the great bridges - the Brooklyn Bridge, the Verrazano, the George Washington, the bridge over the River Kwai. Little did I know, that in my lifetime, I'd be able to witness one of...Tags: Prosecution, Long Island Expressway, Road Transportation, Witnesses, Heavy Engineering
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Adolescents' TV Watching Is Linked to Violent Behavior
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAdolescents who watch more than one hour of television a day are more likely to commit aggressive and violent acts as adults, according to a 17-year study reported today in the journal Science. The study, which tracked more than 700 adolescents into...Tags: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Columbia University, Family, Television, Children
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Jack Nash, 79; investment banker co-founded Odyssey Partners
From Bloomberg NewsJack Nash, an investment banker who helped create the modern-day mutual fund and hedge fund businesses, has died. He was 79. Nash died Wednesday at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, according to the New York Sun, the newspaper he helped found. A...Tags: Family, Personal Finance, Banking, New York, Death and Dying
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Is lead linked to mental decline?
The Associated PressCould it be that the "natural" mental decline that afflicts many older people is related to how much lead they absorbed decades before? That's the provocative idea emerging from some studies, part of a broader area of new research that suggests some...Tags: Medicine, New York, Medical Specialization, Medical Research, Environmental Pollution
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The competition next door
Special to NewsdayThe aroma of chicken and rice floats through the air. Ramon Tavarez, who speaks Spanish, says through his real estate agent that the Melito kids next door often come over to eat, and, judging from the smell, who can blame them? But it's not just the...Tags: New Jersey, Imperial and Royal Matters, Sales, Property, North Carolina
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Can't stay put: Serial home buyers like to keep moving
Special to NewsdayReal estate agent Terry Sciubba says she realized at some point that, when it comes to home ownership, she is not like most people she knows. Not even like many of the customers she serves. Sciubba, 54, owner and manager of Sherlock Homes Realty Corp.,...Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Mortgages, Therapies, Sales, Moving and Storage
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Best Shot | Mount Sinai, Egypt
"On a recent trip to Egypt, where we celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary, we visited Mount Sinai, where, it is said, Moses received the 10 Commandments from God," write Tom and Peggy Arciero of West Islip. "We rode camels part of the way up (about two...Tags: Long Island, Melville, West Islip, New York
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Novelist Norman Mailer Dies at 84
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterNovember 11, 2007 Norman Mailer, the pugnacious two-time Pulitzer Prize winner who jabbed and bobbed his way, sometimes literally, through an extraordinary career as one of the most original and audacious voices in postwar American letters, died...Tags: Prisons, Family, Jack Kerouac, Defense, John Dos Passos
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THE HIP HOP DOC
ReporterAt this risk of sounding like an old man, in my day, rap music meant something. I have to admit, I have shut it out for a long time. Every rap music video seems to be about cash, cars, guns and 'hoes'. Apologists argued it was just a reflection of their...Tags: Columbia University, Health and Safety at School, Medicine, New York, Hip Hop
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Living for two
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIF Aly Hartman could have placed herself in a protective bubble for the duration of her recent pregnancy, she would have done so. The Marina del Rey woman, 28, cut out alcohol, sodas and caffeine. She replaced her sugary breakfast cereal with crackling...Tags: Illnesses, Mental Illness, Health and Safety at Work, Heart Disease, Medicine
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'60 Minutes' Correspondent Bradley Dies
Zap2It.com"60 Minutes" correspondent Ed Bradley, who won 19 Emmys over the course of his career, has died at the age of 65. The newsman died Thursday morning (Nov. 9) of leukemia at New York's Mount Sinai Hospital, reports CBS. Bradley was with the critically...Tags: Illnesses, Columbia University, Mental Illness, Damon Runyon, Roman Catholic
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