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For the privilege of being the first people in nearly eight years to climb the 354 steps to the crown of the Statue of Liberty, 30 visitors on the sun-kissed morning of July 4 had to first endure a bunch of bureaucracy: red tape and stiff security.

General Bela Kiraly, one of the last surviving activists of the failed 1956 Hungarian Revolution against Soviet rule, died Saturday at age 97, the Hungarian Defence Ministry said.

TRAINED scientist accused of being an Al-Qaeda operative was living freely in Pakistan and Afghanistan for portions of the five years before her arrest last year, a psychologist says, disputing claims that the scientist had spent those years in the custody of foreign authorities.

At the annual meeting of the International Multisensory Research Forum being held at The City College of New York , neuroscientists argue in favor of smaller class sizes for children with autism.

A New York Police Department rookie just couldn't wait to get started. One of the NYPD's newest officers made his first arrest Thursday just minutes after graduating from the Police Academy in a ceremony at Madison Square Garden.

Police Officer Dariel Firpo arrested a robbery suspect minutes after graduating from the Police Academy.

The Census Bureau has just released new data showing a resurgence of the nation's cities, with New York leading the way and Chicago reversing five years of population decline.

From : "AGBU Press Office 2" Date : Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:31:26 PDT AGBU Press Office 55 East 59th Street New York, NY 10022-1112 Phone: 212.319.6383, x118 Fax: 212.319.6507 Email: press@agbu.org Website: www.agbu.org PRESS RELEASE Tuesday, June 30, 2009 New York-Yerevan Videoconference Connects Armenian University Students on Many Levels On March ...

The Florida State University is one of the nations most prolific research institutions in the arts, according to rankings recently released by Science Watch that place Florida State third among the universities with the most published papers in the field of performing arts between 2003 and 2007.

O' Keefe's Bar & Grill is located at 64 Court Street between Joralemon and Livingston Streets, the restaurant is very close to Borough Hall .

There is much more consensus among men about whom they find attractive than there is among women, according to a new study by Wake Forest University psychologist Dustin Wood.

Mary Frances, passed away on June 26, 2009 from complications due to the autoimmune disease Lupus.

Raymond Castro was a regular at the Stonewall Inn in 1969, finding it a haven from a world where gay men and women could be arrested for kissing or holding hands in public.

Earlier this month, a teacher's aide was charged with having a sexual relationship with a student at the private Wall school where she worked, and a Howell woman, who worked as a teacher in Old Bridge, admitted in court that she had sex with a 17-year-old student.

Even if the Iranian authorities succeed in suppressing the large demonstrations, the opposition might adopt other forms of protest - such as manifestos, strikes and mass resignations by university professors.

For three years now, students in classes in readers' advisory services for adults in the public library at Queens College, NY, have gone undercover to complete a surrogate user assignment.

President Obama promised he would end "Washington games." But his abrupt firing of the AmeriCorps inspector general is more of the same.

" There's an old proverb that justice delayed is justice denied. The Brooklyn judiciary takes that motto seriously.

Why do politicians think they can get away with cheating on their spouses, particularly when media scrutiny is so intense and peccadilloes are arguably more politically damaging than in the past? One possible explanation, said Stanley Renshon, a political psychologist at City University of New York: "Narcissism is an occupational hazard for ...

The International Center for Journalists has announced the launch of the International Media Institute of India in New Delhi, a non-profit educational center that will marry cutting-edge, hands-on journalism instruction with the highest international standards.