Friday, February 12, 2016

New York Today: How to Beat the Cold and other top stories.

  • New York Today: How to Beat the Cold

    New York Today: How to Beat the Cold
    Photo Putting on a brave face for the Arctic-style temperatures. Credit Christian Hansen for The New York Times Updated, 11:14 a.m. Good morning on this frostbitten Friday.Hat, scarves and gloves? On.Hot coffee in hand? Check.Bundled up in layers? Oh, yes.The temperatures are bitingly cold, and they’re forecast to get even icier this weekend, plunging below zero degrees. What more can we do to stay warm outdoors?Aside from giving up completely and spending the day in..
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  • When the Hospital Fires the Bullet

    When the Hospital Fires the Bullet
    When doctors and nurses arrived at Room 834 just after 11 a.m., a college student admitted to the hospital hours earlier lay motionless on the floor, breathing shallowly, a sheet draped over his body. A Houston police officer with a cut on his head was being helped onto a stretcher, while another hovered over the student. Blood smeared the floor and walls. “What happened?” asked Dr. Daniel Arango, a surgical resident at the hospital, St. Joseph Medical Center.The student, 26-year-old Alan Pean..
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  • New York City officials decide it's too cold for ice fest

    New York City officials decide it's too cold for ice fest
    NEW YORK (AP) — It's too cold in New York City for the annual Central Park Ice Festival. The Central Park Conservancy says Saturday's event has been canceled. The National Weather Service predicts temperatures in the teens on Saturday for New York. But wind chills could drop to between zero and minus-10, and wind gusts could reach around 44 mph. The free event was to feature ice-carving artists and music. Last month, Central Park's free winter sports day called Winter Jam was canceled due to a ..
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  • Hillary Clinton Sharpens Focus After Democratic Debate Tussles

    Hillary Clinton Sharpens Focus After Democratic Debate Tussles
    Photo Senator Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton before the start of Thursday’s debate at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Credit Jim Wilson/The New York Times After a debate performance in which she painted Bernie Sanders as a fringe candidate whose policies bordered on fantasy, Hillary Clinton and her allies intensified the pressure on the Vermont senator on Friday, burnishing her embrace of President Obama and seeking to solidify her support among blacks. Fo..
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  • Homes for Sale in New York and New Jersey

    Homes for Sale in New York and New Jersey
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  • Your Friday Briefing: Syria, Oregon, Albert Einstein

    Your Friday Briefing: Syria, Oregon, Albert Einstein
    Photo Hillary Clinton introduced many new lines of attack on Bernie Sanders in Thursday’s debate, including on foreign affairs. Credit Jim Wilson/The New York Times (Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning.Here’s what you need to know:• Hillary Clinton on the attack.The Democratic candidate, defeated soundly in New Hampshire, sought to break Bernie Sanders’s popularity and to appeal to new segments of voters at a debate in Milwaukee on T..
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  • David Bowie's New York: A Playlist

    David Bowie's New York: A Playlist
    Photo Clockwise from top left; the David Bowie albums “Aladdin Sane,” “Young Americans,” Scary Monsters,” Heathen,” Reality” and “Blackstar.” Given that David Bowie lived in New York longer than any other city, and his experiences there went back to the early 1970s, it’s not difficult to find its influence on the sound and subject matter of his music. “I’m terribly influenced by geography and where I am,” Mr. Bowie, whose career will be honored Monday at the Grammy Awards with a perform..
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  • What New York cop's conviction means for Black Lives Matter

    What New York cop's conviction means for Black Lives Matter
    A mostly white jury convicted New York police officer Peter Liang of manslaughter on Thursday for the 2014 fatal shooting of a black man in a darkened stairway.The victim, Akai Gurley, was unarmed when he was killed by a ricocheting bullet in the stairwell of a public housing unit. Mr. Liang claims the shooting was an accident.The ruling comes at a time when a series of high profile police killings in the United States, have spurred tense protests, fueled a new civil rights movement, and prompt..
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  • NJ School District Closed Because of Raging Warehouse Fire

    NJ School District Closed Because of Raging Warehouse Fire
      Firefighters on Friday contained a massive warehouse fire that burned out of control for nearly 20 hours and generated so much smoke that it was detected by weather radar and forced some school closures.   The blaze did not pose an imminent public health threat, officials said. But schools were closed Friday in Hillsborough because of smoke from the blaze. Route 206 was closed Thursday night because of the blaze.  The fire started around 3:30 p.m. Thursday at Veterans Industrial Park. Plastic..
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  • Eurozone Economy Grows, but Total Output Still Lags 2008

    Eurozone Economy Grows, but Total Output Still Lags 2008
    Photo The working-class neighborhood of Sant Ildefons in the Catalonia Province of Spain. Greece, Italy and Spain have struggled to recover from the economic crisis of 2008. Credit Arnau Bach for The New York Times Europe is still trying to crawl back to where it was in 2008. That was the subtext of the economic data for the eurozone published on Friday.The 19-country eurozone, the core of Europe’s economy, grew at an annual rate of 1.1 percent in the last quarter of..
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