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Mark Bittman’s warning: the true costs of our cheap food and the American diet theguardian.com/environment/…
'People should be alarmed': air pollution in US subway systems stuns researchers 😷 theguardian.com/environment/…
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The unemployment rate among NYC hospitality workers is 43.4%. In April, immediately after the pandemic hit the city, the rate was 71.5% grubstreet.com/2021/01/the-h…
"The point is working together on a grand goal. It is not so much about lifting the world as lifting up humanity." @anderssandberg
The 'megascale' structures that humans could one day build bbc.com/future/article/20210… via @BBC_Future
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Law enforcement arrested 15 people today in D.C, according to NBC.
15.
People were being arrested by the hundreds in Ferguson for peacefully protesting the killing of an unarmed black teenager.
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"Restaurants symbolize not just high points and low points but also whole chapters of our lives." writes @FrankBruni. "They’re part of the topography of our journeys — the part with criminally good tacos and a lethal margarita." nyti.ms/3nDZAir
Fleeing New Yorkers resulted in an estimated $34 billion in lost income -study reut.rs/37l8A6h
“That this racist belief has a partisan valence makes it no less racist. If one’s fundamental rights are contingent on adhering to the political beliefs of the ruling clique, they are not rights at all.”
"When they say the 2020 election was stolen, Trumpists are expressing their view that the votes of rival constituencies should not count, even though they understand, on some level, that they do," @AdamSerwer writes: on.theatln.tc/OIadIm7
I remember him being kind. I was 14 years old and had hiked far too much of Mt Whitney far too fast. The older guys I was with kept going but altitude sickness got the better of me and I stopped on a large rock. And consumed Tylenol like Reese’s Pieces and decided to wait-
Breaking News: Chuck Yeager, the first pilot to break the sound barrier, has died at 97. He became a national celebrity thanks to “The Right Stuff” by Tom Wolfe. nyti.ms/36VrQHo
for my dad who was surely not far behind. An old guy stopped and talked to me for a while. I remember being appreciative and feeling safe. After some time my dad came upon us. He checked on me and realized that I was probably ok. And then he turned to the old guy and
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The chain's BOOK IT! program was a frugal, voracious reader's ticket to treat town. foodandwine.com/travel/resta…
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"One hundred years ago," writes @JochenBittner, "powerful conservatives who led the country into war refused to accept that they had lost. Their denial gave birth to arguably the most potent and disastrous political lie of the 20th century." nyti.ms/3fTHF44
This. No matter how much it hurts. And it hurts. – at Manhattan, NY
"What the public interest requires for now is a suspension of indoor dining in areas where the virus is spreading, combined with federal aid to keep restaurants in business." (Was true in March, too.) nytimes.com/2020/11/18/opini…
"The typical international visitor spends four times as much money during a visit as the typical domestic visitor does, Mr. Dixon said."via @NYTimes @NYTpatrick nytimes.com/2020/11/16/nyreg…
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While I may be the first woman in this office, I will not be the last—because every little girl watching tonight sees that this is a country of possibilities.
"As restaurants fail, cities will lose economic output and jobs, of course — over two million restaurant jobs and 173,000 bar jobs were lost between February and August. But they also stand to lose their glue."
Downtown restaurants across urban America have been clobbered. What will happen to cities if they don’t come back? nytimes.com/2020/11/03/busin…
