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Recipes For Friendship: A Look at How Women Are Getting Out — Or Staying In — With The Girls

Although not all women are getting attached at the hip with figure-eight knots and carabiners, they are finding new ways to fit friendship into their busy schedules, putting a spin on the “traditional girls night out” and finding that sometimes the best alternative is staying in.
Courier News, October 26, 2003

New Parents Get by with a Little Help from StuyTown Friends

It takes a village/town to raise a child, especially in the early years. That’s where the community in StuyTown and Peter Cooper Village comes in. A quiet oasis within the New York City extending from 14th street up to 23rd street in Gramercy, it’s one of the most family-friendly neighborhoods in Manhattan and the perfect place to spend your parental leave. Here’s why.
Stuytown, May 1, 2023

Time Has Changed ‘The Old House’

Time has been kind to the sprawling 150-year-old home at 707 East Main Street, where my grandmother grew up, but has nonetheless left its mark. The semi-circular driveway, where her son learned how to drive a car, has a painted parking spot labeled “clergy.” The living room, where her husband proposed to her more than 60 years ago, contains a display of shiny caskets with their lids partially ajar.
Courier News, April 29, 2003

Imagining Maxine Greene

It is hard to keep Maxine Greene from talking about things, especially the arts and education. “Whatever success I’ve had is through writing and talking a lot,” said Greene, the William F. Russell Professor Emeritus in Foundations of Education and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Education. And, at 86, she shows no signs of stopping.
TC Today, June 2004

Talking to Your Dead Cat and Other Tales by Animal Psychics

Animal psychics don’t predict your pet’s future, but they claim to figure out why Spot keeps peeing on the couch, or what thoughts are running through Maisey’s mind.
New York Misc., October 2002

Good News from america

Over one hundred years ago, my 18-year-old great-grandmother left her housekeeping job and family behind in Budimir, Slovakia to follow my 19-year-old great-grandfather to Wisconsin to build a new life in a country sight unseen without speaking a word of English. They were drawn to the U.S. by the “American Dream” - the opportunity for better paying jobs and a different life.
Budimirsky Nove Casy, December 2020

McKinsey for Kids: I, Robot? What technology shifts mean for tomorrow’s jobs

Tomorrow’s jobs will look different from today’s—and not just because you might be working alongside robots. In this edition of McKinsey for Kids, peer into the future of work and what it may hold for you, whether you’re thinking about becoming a doctor, an influencer—or a garbage designer.
McKinsey.com, August 2021