Author: Qiong Wang

  • Free Spring Breaks in New York: An April Calendar

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    By Susan Russo Manhattan Macy’s Flower Show When: April 1-4 Where: 34th Street and Seventh Avenue   Central Park Tour When: April 4, 12-1:00pm Where: 72nd Street and Fifth Avenue   Center Park Tour When: April 4, 2:00-3:00pm Where: 110th Street between Fifth and Lenox Avenue   Center Park Tour When: April 5, 10:00-11:30am Where: 110th…

  • Now He Belongs to the Ages

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    By George Barany and Marcia Brott George Barany is a Rockefeller alum (1977). Marcia Brott is a human genome researcher by day, wordsmith by night. Both are currently at the University of Minnesota. For more about this specific puzzle, including a link to the answer, visit http://tinyurl.com/april1865puz. More Barany and Friends crosswords are at http://tinyurl.com/gbpuzzle.…

  • Life on a Roll

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    By Elodie Pauwels Photos: http://elodiepphoto.wordpress.com Scenes from Lisbon, Portugal.During the day or at night, shades and shadows offer so much contrast. They create an atmosphere so powerful that you immediately feel charmed and bewitched at the same time.  

  • Three Weeks in Australia

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    By Natalia Ketaren The Twelve Apostles, Port Campbell National Park, Victoria, Australia. Photo credit: Natalia Ketaren After almost three years of being away, I was returning home for a summer Christmas. The last time I visited, my days were spent lazing in parks and beaches along Port Phillip Bay, dinners at trendy Melbourne joints with…

  • Twenty-four visits to Stockholm: a concise history of the Rockefeller Nobel Prizes

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    Part VI: Fritz Albert Lipmann, 1953 Prize in Physiology or Medicine By Joseph Luna From Ra to Apollo to Huitzilopochtli, the ancients were onto something by worshipping the sun. Alongside water, no other entity was as important for the agricultural harvest or for predicting the seasonal movements of wind and life-giving rain. But the precise…

  • Culture Corner

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    Book Review: My Struggle Book 1, by Karl Ove Knausgaard By Bernie Langs For several months I had heard chatter about an extraordinary set of books written by an eccentric Norwegian chronicling his life in the minutest detail. There was even one nighttime commute home on New Jersey Transit where I sat and watched a…

  • What is Traditional Irish Soda Bread for $100, Alex?

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    By Aileen Marshall Saint Patrick’s Day is coming up and that means there will be sales for corned beef and cabbage and traditional Irish soda bread. I myself, of Irish decent, only became aware of Irish soda bread as a young adult. I went through several recipes given to me by friends and family, before…

  • New York State of Mind

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    This Month Natural Selections Interviews Denny Espinoza, Environmental Assistant, Laboratory Safety and Environmental Health. Interview by Melvin White How long have you been living in the New York area? I moved a lot before the age of 5, all within New Jersey. However our last move was to New York when I started kindergarten. Where…

  • Baby, It’s Cold Outside

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    By George Barany and Marcia Brott George Barany is a Rockefeller alum (1977). Marcia Brott is a human genome researcher by day, wordsmith by night. Both are currently at the University of Minnesota. For more about this specific puzzle, including a link to the answer, visit http://tinyurl.com/wonderlandpuz. More Barany and Friends crosswords are at http://tinyurl.com/gbpuzzle.

  • Life on a Roll

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    By Qiong Wang A year ago, I took a road-trip in Spain, a beautiful country with rich culture and cheerful people. Nerja, a pearl setting on the Mediterranean shoreline, is the one I chose to document first. Nerja is known by another charming name, “Balcony of Europe.” A piece of cliff taps into the Mediterranean.…