August 10, 2011

The street-corner dominance of the classic New York dirty-water hot dog is quietly, slowly slipping away.

Students in public middle and high schools will be required to take lessons on topics like how to use a condom.

At least 10,000 people in New York have post-traumatic stress disorder, and while many were emergency responders, others were passive witnesses.

Philip Levine, whose poems capture the industrial heartland, is to be the next United States poet laureate.

The work of Philip Levine, the new poet laureate, is a plainspoken poetry ready-made, it seems, for a time of S&P downgrades, a double-dip recession and debts left unpaid.