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| Flea bargains |
If you go to the Meadowlands Flea Market, here's what you'll see: Vendors selling army surplus gas masks, off-price Gucci bags, gold jewelry, and a gazillion other items.
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| Good heavens |
His feet are planted on solid ground, but the night sky bowls him over. Amateur and professional astronomers across North Jersey and Rockland County, N.Y., not only monitor the night sky for their own interest and pleasure. Through their clubs, they also sponsor public viewing nights so that novices can add "Wow!" to their own vocabularies.
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| Traditions and TLC |
Calling an Italian restaurant a "red sauce" kind of place isn't exactly a compliment, unless you're referring to Patsy's, the New York City landmark beloved by Frank Sinatra and his showbiz pals. "We're proud of being a 'red sauce' restaurant," says Sal J. Scognamillo, Patsy's executive chef and grandson of the founder, Pasquale "Patsy" Scognamillo, who opened the restaurant at 236 W. 56th St. between Broadway and Eighth Avenue in 1944.
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| Warming up to Stockholm |
Stockholm had made a bad first impression. I came away with many shopping bags. And an image of the city as soulless and reserved.
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| Special delivery |
Doesn't first-class mail deserve first-class treatment? No longer are homeowners content with the standard black steel mailbox perched on a 4-by-4 at the end of the driveway. These days they're dressing up their address and prettying up their postboxes.
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| American history revisited |
History was always my worst subject. I hated it. Learning history meant bloodless words in a book, on a blackboard. It meant memorizing dates and spitting back place names.
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| The tailgater's winning game plan |
One of the best ways to get that rush of football-season adrenaline is through the grand tradition of tailgating.
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| Lasagna fit for a president |
Eadie Godman called me more than a month ago seeking a recipe that she believed appeared in The Record about 40 years ago. The recipe has a unique history: It was former President John F. Kennedy's favorite lasagna.
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| Traditions and TLC |
Calling an Italian restaurant a "red sauce" kind of place isn't exactly a compliment, unless you're referring to Patsy's, the New York City landmark beloved by Frank Sinatra and his showbiz pals. "We're proud of being a 'red sauce' restaurant," says Sal J. Scognamillo, Patsy's executive chef and grandson of the founder, Pasquale "Patsy" Scognamillo, who opened the restaurant at 236 W. 56th St. between Broadway and Eighth Avenue in 1944.
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| Shopper's dilemma: Taxi or bamboo hut? |
Just when you thought they'd exhausted the list of potential action figures - from Dragonball Z to Jesus - there's a new one. You.
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| Aiming for the 'happy ending' category |
Stores that dominate their field to the point that they drive out competitors - stores like Home Depot in hardware, Blockbuster in movie rentals, Modell's in sporting goods, and CVS in drugstores - have their own catchy nickname. They're called category killers. But what's a catchy name for the stores that get killed by the category killers?
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| Flea bargains |
If you go to the Meadowlands Flea Market, here's what you'll see: Vendors selling army surplus gas masks, off-price Gucci bags, gold jewelry, and a gazillion other items.
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| Storefront: Joy | |
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| A religious cure for corporate corruption? |
Now that Enron, WorldCom, and ImClone have become household synonyms for corporate corruption, religious ethicists are advocating scripturally based ideals as a workplace remedy.
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