If there's one group in America that has rightfully earned the "anti-gay" label, it is the Southern Baptist Coalition. Year after the year, they vote against LGBT people having even the slightest of roles within their ranks, oppose every sort of pro-gay policy that comes to the political forefront, ...

Two popular free lecture series are set to resume this month, and both get guests into a few architecturally interesting spaces downtown. Access Restricted, organized by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council will visit five “temples” built for and by the financial sector, including the Bank of Ne...

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Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. CEO of the New York Times Co., publisher of The New York Times  In the middle of November 2008, at a time when the New York Times Company stock number was falling off the face of the earth, Arthur Sulzberger Jr. was in the ballroom at the Plaza Hotel, getting a beating.   H...

His prediction in 1956 that U.S. oil production would peak in about 1970 and decline thereafter was scoffed at then but his analysis has since proved to be remarkably accurate. Less well known were Hubbert's studies since 1926 on the rate of industrial growth and of mineral and energy resources and ...

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Read through the official European reactions to Israel’s ground offensive into Gaza: Zapatero, the Vatican, the Italian government — all are pressuring Israel for a ceasefire. The surprise is Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, who states that it would be pointless to condemn Israel witho...

JANUARY 5, 2009By SUSAN SCHMIDT and MAURICE TAMMAN California Rep. Joe Baca has long pushed legislation he said would "open the doors to the American Dream" for first-time home buyers in his largely Hispanic district. For many of them, those doors have slammed shut, quickly and painfully. Mortgage l...

Founded in 1910, the League for the Hard of Hearing is the oldest, private, non-profit rehabilitation center for people with hearing loss in the country. Through a wide range of clinical services, the League enables individuals of all ages with all degrees of hearing loss to achieve their full poten...