- December 7, 1998
- Painful Choices
One spring evening, 7-year-old Kara Ramos ate a rare hamburger at a family party. Days later she was lying in the hospital, trembling with pain as E. coli toxins coursed through her body. She screamed at her mother's touch. That's when Kara's doctor gave her parents a choice: Would they allow her to become the 28th child in America to take an experimental drug? It was the toughest decision they'd ever had to make. And they had to make it right away.
- August 3, 1998
- Adult Education / Sports: Body Work
There's only so far a stationary bike can take you. It's time to get out of the gym and into that Speedo.
- August 3, 1998
- Adult Education / Culture: Food for Thought
High art to low, Broadway to Buddhism -- broaden your mind without those pesky exams.
- March 10, 2003
- Far and Away
Designing shoes was her dream job—even if it meant spending so much time in provincial China that she felt cut off from her New York life and love. She had told friends she was thinking about making this trip her last and giving up her job at Kenneth Cole. What Laura Southwick couldn’t imagine was that she’d never return to the home she missed so much.
- October 19, 1999
- 50 Ways to Love . . .
the East Village (31-40) Our series of highly personal, brazenly arbitrary neighborhood tours, in which our staff writer sings the praises of her neighborhood.
- July 12, 2004
- Anti-Noise Gear
Testing devices that drown out the roar.
- March 7, 2005
- Handicapping the Yanks
Why the Red Sox shouldn’t get too confident.
- April 11, 2005
- What Rupert Wrought
In the mid-seventies, Murdoch recognized New York as the bargain of the century. Now it’s his city, we only live here.
- October 2, 2000
- The Cowboy Chronicles
Twenty years after riding a mechanical bull to big-screen fortune and fame, the urban cowboy returns as a stage hero -- and the author finds that putting on a show isn't anything like they say it is in the movies.
- December 23, 2002
- The Trader
Penis jokes, frat-boy high jinks, acronym hell -- they're all in a day's work.
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