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New York Struggles After Sandy
Voice of America
The streets of New York, normally clogged with traffic, were mostly empty Tuesday morning, save for a few highly coveted taxicabs and some police and sanitation vehicles. Downtown was hit hardest by the winds and rain flooding, and a resident of the ...
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New York Subway System May Take Weeks to Recover From Storm
Businessweek
New York was among the cities in Sandy's path that shut its transit system in advance of the storm, only the second time that has happened. The preparations saved most of the MTA's trains, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said at a press conference today in New ...
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New York Times slams Romney as Sandy slams New York
Fox News
Even as the streets of Manhattan were flooding and hundreds of thousands of residents lost power Monday night, the New York Times turned its attention back to national politics. It published a misleading editorial attacking Gov. Romney and in defense ...
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At New York University Medical Center, A Dramatic, Critical Evacuation
NPR (blog)
As CNN reports it, around 7:45 p.m. Monday, the hospital's basement started taking on water. At one point, the "lower floors and elevator shafts filled with 10 to 12 feet of water." The hospital's main power went out and then the backup power failed ...
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Google Introduces New Emergency Resources in Response to Sandy
New York Times (blog)
On Monday night, the company introduced the new service, public alerts, to show warnings about natural disasters and emergencies based on information from government agencies like Ready.gov and the National Weather Service. Google said it had ...
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New Poll Gives Warren the Edge in Massachusetts Senate Race
New York Times (blog)
BOSTON — A poll released Tuesday by Suffolk University shows Elizabeth Warren with the support of 53 percent of likely voters compared with 46 percent for Senator Scott P. Brown in the hard-fought Massachusetts Senate race. The lead for Ms. Warren ...
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Get ready for new Disney Star Wars films.
Forbes
Disney chairman Rober Iger announced today that his company is buying LucasFilm, home of the Star Wars franchise, for $4.05 billion. That's about the same amount of money The Mouse House spent on Marvel back in 2010. With The Avengers grossing ...
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MLB blames Hurricane Sandy for new Astros logo leaking
USA TODAY
MLBAM is based in New York, so planning ahead for the deadly storm is reasonable. You can imagine employees uploading information early based on the threat of power outages and crippled transportation. But using a natural disaster as a scapegoat for a ...
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Air New Zealand axes 'Beastheim'
Stuff.co.nz
Air New Zealand has got into the Halloween spirit on its grabaseat site by renaming destinations in line with the theme of the day, but in Blenheim the attempted joke did not seem so funny. Auckland became Spookland, Christchurch is Witchchurch ...
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Obama declares New York a major disaster area
Irish Times
Millions of Americans are without power today after monster storm Sandy smashed into the in the eastern US, prompting the president to declare a "major disaster" in New York state and New Jersey. The storm killed at least 20 people in seven states, cut ...
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Tidal surge on river floods three New Jersey towns
Reuters
TETERBORO, New Jersey (Reuters) - A wall of water, at times greater than 5 feet high, swept through three towns in northern New Jersey early Tuesday, a parting shot from Hurricane Sandy that prompted the evacuation of a few thousand people from their ...
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New York Stock Exchange will reopen Wednesday
Seattle Post Intelligencer
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Stock Exchange will reopen for regular trading Wednesday after being shut down for two days because of Hurricane Sandy. The exchange said in a statement Tuesday that its building and trading floor are fully operational ...
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Bloomberg: New York City subway likely out for 4, 5 days
Toronto Sun
About a quarter of New York City's homes and businesses were without power 15 hours after Hurricane Sandy roared ashore accompanied by a nearly 14-foot (4.2-metre) tidal surge that flooded empty subway and highway tunnels. Con Edison warned parts ...
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New England spared flooding as Sandy clean-up begins
Reuters
NEW BEDFORD, Massachusetts (Reuters) - Residents of the coastal areas of Massachusetts and Rhode Island ventured out on Tuesday to clear up the wreckage caused by powerful storm Sandy, which flattened trees, damaged homes and left hundreds of ...
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New Italy law tackles rampant corruption
The Star Online
Italy's Prime Minister Mario Monti listens to reporter's question during a joint news conference with Austria's Chancellor Werner Faymann at the end of a meeting at Chigi Palace in Rome October 24, 2012. REUTERS/Tony Gentile ...
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80 homes destroyed by New York fire amid superstorm
CNN
New York (CNN) -- An inferno spread across a flooded neighborhood of Rockaway Peninsula in Queens early Tuesday, torching at least 80 homes as a potent mix of weather blasted the region. Some 200 firefighters battled the six-alarm blaze in Breezy Point ...
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New Orleans Saints going nowhere because of defensive, offensive lines
NOLA.com
So what do we know about the 2012 New Orleans Saints? After watching a football game last Sunday night billed as ''Peyton Manning vs. Drew Brees,'' featuring a couple of quarterbacks who have combined to throw for nearly 100,000 yards and 712 ...
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New race row engulfs game
ic Newcastle.co.uk
English football is in danger of being dragged through another bitter racism saga after police launched a formal investigation into whether Mark Clattenburg used "inappropriate language" towards Chelsea stars John Obi Mikel and Juan Mata.
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Residents in New Jersey Suburbs Still Being Rescued From Sandy
Wall Street Journal (blog)
AP: With the aid of New Jersey State police, a man walks with his dog to a National Guard vehicle after leaving his flooded home at the Metropolitan Trailer Park in Moonachie, N.J., Tuesday. By Christopher Weaver and Danny Gold. Across New Jersey ...
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
NCAA approves new tougher sanctions
Orlando Sentinel (blog)
At least that's the message that comes out of the Division I Board of Directors approving new legislation that provides tougher measures against coaches and their staffs who commit violations. The new rule, which was adopted Tuesday, will also provide ...
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'Oyster Creek proximity to New York poses threat during flooding' - Prof. Busby
RT
Less than 24 hours after Hurricane Sandy ripped through eastern United States, the country's oldest nuclear power plant – located in Forked River, New Jersey - has been has been put on alert. You can never make nuclear power stations perfectly safe.
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Superstorm Sandy continues to disrupt New York entertainment industry
CBS News
The Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band concert scheduled for Tuesday night at the Rochester Blue Cross Arena in upstate New York was postponed until Wednesday because of the superstorm. Officials at the arena said the concert was rescheduled ...
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New York Copes With Worst Storm in City's History
Voice of America
Power is out for roughly 8 million east coast residents, but in New York, where debris-littered streets are mostly deserted and thousands remain in 76 city-run shelters, with dawn came a grim recognition of Sandy's impact. "Sadly, the storm claimed the ...
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Google's New Nexus Devices; Windows Phone 8 Unveiled; Apple Drops Execs
PC Magazine
In other mobile news, Microsoft followed up last week's Windows 8 carnival in New York with the official release of Windows Phone 8 at an event across the country in San Francisco. In a first for Microsoft, the new smartphone platform shares the core ...
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Coptic Church moves toward picking new pope
Egyptian Gazette
The final selection of the new pope will take place in a ceremony Sunday, when the three names are put in a box and a blindfolded child picks one out, a step believed to reflect God's will in the choice. The acting pope asked Copts to fast for three ...
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