Sunday, November 22, 2015

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  • Bomb threat diverts Turkish Airlines flight from New York - CNN

    Bomb threat diverts Turkish Airlines flight from New York - CNN
    Story highlightsBomb-sniffing dogs have been used to check the plane and luggageTwo Air France flights from the U.S. were diverted by bomb threats last weekThe passenger aircraft with 256 people on board landed safely early Sunday morning at Halifax Stanfield International Airport, in Nova Scotia, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.Authorities said they were investigating the "origin of the threat," which was received at 10:50 p.m. local time (9:50 p.m. ET), and were looking to ident..
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  • Your Weekend Briefing: Mali, Brussels, Chicago

    Your Weekend Briefing: Mali, Brussels, Chicago
    Here are the week’s top stories.PhotoCreditDavid Ryder/Reuters1. President Obamareturns Monday from Asian summit meetings toface fierce debatesset off by the terrorist attacks in Paris that are raging in living rooms,statehouses,Congressandthe presidential campaigns. One issue is whether to send U.S. ground forces to fight the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. Another is whether resettling Syrian refugees could open the door to a domestic attack._______PhotoCreditIan Langsdon/European Pressphoto ..
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  • Inside the restaurant that's the hardest reservation in town

    Inside the restaurant that's the hardest reservation in town
    There’s only one table for two at Rao’s. But all of the tables are tables for few.The 119-year-old restaurant remains one of the hardest places to get into in the city — and, in the past few weeks,VIPs have been feuding over one table in particular.Rao’sPhoto: Warzer JaffCelebrity private eye Bo Dietl has had a regular eight-top table at the restaurant every Thursday night since 1977. Page Six reported last week how New York Citybanker Christopher Bond dropped $6,000 at a charity auctionto use D..
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  • New York is the second-most expensive state in the US | New York Post

    New York is the second-most expensive state in the US | New York Post
    New York is leading the nation — in the number of local food pantries and soup kitchens, that is.With one in six working New Yorkers now showing up on the doorsteps of food charities, a new study ranks the Empire State the second-most expensive, after Hawaii.“Wage and salaries are not increasing here with the cost of living,” said Amria Gordon, a working Brooklyn mom with four children who visits a local food pantry.The enormous number of New Yorkers availing themselves of “emergency food” is co..
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  • New York City's schools debate removing metal detectors - LA Times

    A student has not been shot in a New York City school in 13 years, a heartening statistic in an era of commonplace school massacres. But there is a growing cry to rid the city's schools of metal detectors, the very tool some observers credit with keeping them safe.Some parent groups and advocates say the scanners installed at the city's most troubled institutions more than two decades ago are now unneeded because of low crime rates, and they condemn them as discriminatory, since by and large the..
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  • Why New York is better for startups than San Francisco - Business Insider

    Why New York is better for startups than San Francisco - Business Insider
    New York’s startup scene has grown over the past few years, but it’s still a much different experience building a company in NYC than in the San Francisco Bay Area.Movable InkCEO Vivek Sharma describes it like this:“If the Bay Area is the PhD program, New York is still in high school. We have a lot to learn. And there are things that that make New York different. Things you start to feel as a company scales.”Sharma built his "dynamic email" startup in New York, turning it into a profitable compa..
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  • Man Swings Sword at New York City Apple Store

    Man Swings Sword at New York City Apple Store
    A manswinging a large swordappeared at Apple’s flagship store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan Friday, terrifying shoppers.Video showed the man, 30-year-old Hsu Chien, waving the weapon on the store’s spiral glass staircase, NBC New York reports. No injuries were reported, and police eventually tackled Chien, who was then taken to a hospital for evaluation.“I have never in my life felt so terrified,” Nancy Birnbaum, who was at the store’s Genius Bar, told the network. “He pulled his sword out and ev..
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  • Reimagining a Family Jewelry Business

    Reimagining a Family Jewelry Business
    PhotoBleu Carmen earrings by Sophie Mizrahi-Rubel, for her new John Rubel line. They were inspired by the Bleu Carmen design of her great uncle, the jeweler John Rubel.PARIS — “I have decided to wake up the Sleeping Beauty” is how Sophie Mizrahi-Rubel describes the renaissance of her family’s jewelry business.Ms. Mizrahi-Rubel, 51, who is based in Paris, was trained in working with diamonds and precious colored stones by her grandfather, the well-known diamond specialist Marcel Rubel. Her 20-yea..
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  • Ray Duckler: In New York City, tis the season to be worried | Concord Monitor

    Ray Duckler: In New York City, tis the season to be worried | Concord Monitor
    I worry about my family.They live near New York City, a 25-minute train ride from Grand Central Station. The site of the World Trade Center has been labeled Ground Zero for 14 years, and, beyond Washington, D.C., New York City is undoubtedly the No. 1 target in the minds of terrorists.So there, now, ’tis the season to be jumpy, not jolly.Sure, sure, we’ve heard the battle cry after the attacks in Paris, the one about courage, about maintaining a normal lifestyle ..
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  • Pentagon Expands Inquiry Into Intelligence on ISIS Surge

    Pentagon Expands Inquiry Into Intelligence on ISIS Surge
    PhotoIraqi gear littered the ground near an Iraqi Army checkpoint east of Mosul on June 11, 2014, a day after militants overran the city.CreditSafin Hamed/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesWASHINGTON — When Islamic State fighters overran a string of Iraqi cities last year, analysts at United States Central Command wrote classified assessments for military intelligence officials and policy makers that documented the humiliating retreat of the Iraqi Army. But before the assessments were final, f..
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