Hispanic advocates often tell the story of a Census Bureau worker who visits a Puerto Rican household in New York City’s East Harlem neighborhood.
Why the U.S. Census Misreads Hispanic and Arab Americans
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Avandia Approval: FDA’s Drug-Safety Protection in Doubt
Five days before a 2007 article in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that the diabetes drug Avandia was linked to a 43% increase in heart attacks compared with other medications or placebos, a group of scientists and executives from the drug’s maker, GlaxoSmithKline , gathered in a conference room at the offices of the Food and Drug Administration in White Oak, Md. The GSK goal: to convince regulators that the evidence that the company’s $3 billion-a-year blockbuster drug caused heart problems was inconclusive.
Downsizing: Today’s Home Buyers Think Small, Practical
During the real estate boom, new home construction became a game of ever increasing square-footage.
NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft Is Approaching Asteroid Vesta
Schoolchildren by the thousands wept when Pluto was officially banished from the ranks of the major planets back in 2006, but for the asteroids, demotion to the interplanetary minor leagues is very old news. When Ceres was discovered in 1801 during a search of the mysteriously empty space between Mars and Jupiter, astronomers were convinced they’d found a new planet.
Books: The Decline of the East
NEW ENGLAND: INDIAN SUMMER—Van Wyck Brooks—Dutton . During the '20s and '30s, Critic Van Wyck Brooks pondered a theory and a project
New York Final Destination
When Henry James sailed out of New York harbor for Europe in 1875, Ellis Island, to his right, was just an empty rock, and the city he left behind was ethnically familiar. When he returned for a visit three decades later, everything had changed.
How We See Immigration — and Why We’re Wrong
From Arizona to Amsterdam, immigration remains one of the most contentious and divisive debates for Americans and Europeans alike.
The Power of Birth Order
It could not have been easy being Elliott Roosevelt. If the alcohol wasn’t getting him, the morphine was
Oil Back Above to $113 on Weaker Dollar
Oil prices climbed back to near $113 a barrel Friday as a weaker dollar made crude more attractive to investors with other currencies and the conflicts in Libya and Syria raised risk premiums. By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark crude for June delivery was up 40 cents at $113.26 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange
Greenhouse Gallery: New Delhi’s Arty New Hothouse
Sometimes a little space is all that’s needed to make things grow. That’s the principle behind New Delhi’s aptly named Greenhouse gallery.