ONE AFTERNOON IN HIS OFFICE at Stanford University, neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky noticed that his student assistant listened to an unusually diverse mix of music - Sonic Youth, Woody Herman, Gregorian chants. Sapolsky wondered why he, at age 40, still clung to the music he liked in college.
A seasonal restaurant is off the menu at Union Square Park - but the city can proceed with other planned renovations, a judge ruled yesterday. Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Jane Solomon OK'd the removal and replanting of trees and rehabbing the pavilion, but put a planned restaurant on hold.
You can't enforce a contract if it's not kosher. A state appeals court tossed out a lawsuit against a prominent Park Avenue rabbi who was sued by his former mistress for reneging on his written agreement to pay her at least $125,000 if their relationship ended. The panel said the contract couldn't be enforced - because it "facilitated adultery." Rabbi Joel Goor, 75, was still married when he
Dan Rather says CBS's skulduggery has cost him jobs everywhere from CNN to A&E. In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, the former CBS Evening News anchor says his reliance on the network's false promises that it would defend him after making him a scapegoat for a controversial news report cost him several high-profile jobs - and some lower-profile ones as well. While he was once a hot
1790: The French National Assembly decides to create a decimal system of measurement. The metric system is born. This came after the storming of the Bastille but still before the declaration of a republic and the execution of King Louis XVI. But revolution was in the air: "National Assembly" was simply the new name the upstart Third Estate had given itself. The assembly was acting on a
1790: The French National Assembly decides to create a decimal system of measurement. The metric system is born. This came after the storming of the Bastille but still before the declaration of a republic and the execution of King Louis XVI.
HYATTSVILLE - Rehearsal assistant David Mathers brought his lapel microphone up to his mouth for a throaty demonstration of the German word "dich," putting particular emphasis on the guttural "kh" sound at the end.
May is the fifth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. The month is named for the Greek goddess Maia, who was identified with the Roman era goddess of fertility. May is associated with the arrival of spring or summer in many parts of the world.
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