The Lens: An in-depth magazine show In this edition, the staff of The Lens looks at modern-day slavery, the Friendly legacy and plans for farming high in the sky.
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New Yorkers are known for living on the edge. Here are eight stories of how denizens of the Big Apple push their bodies to the limit.
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An increasingly dangerous intestinal super bug is sending ripples through the medical community. The disease, caused by a pathogen known as C. diff, thrives in unsanitary hospital conditions and in response to antibiotic treatments. These circumstances, some experts say, create a vicious cycle where the health care industry feeds the problem it is trying to treat.
Francis Jacobo With tax season hitting hard, filers should be careful to avoid falling for predatory lenders when asking for an instant refund.
Karyn Ostrom Green collar jobs abound as construction and building maintenance throughout the city go green.
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Thanks to researchers and changing attitudes among men and women, there could one day be two packs of birth control pills on the nightstand, one for her and one for him.
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They're serious. They're competitive. They're blind baseball players. With a beeping ball and a few helping hands, they're playing to win--and showing that disabilities don't have to hold athletes back.
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Typewriters are making a comeback as people young and old shun the distractions of modern computers in favor of the old manual machines.
Steven Beardsley In an increasingly difficult environment for foster families, city foster care agencies are reporting mixed results recruiting new parents.
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Seeing the world through new eyesSharona Coutts and Adam SerwerMillions of people around the world have gone blind because of problems with a part of the eye called the cornea. Until recently, the only way to cure that blindness was by transplanting a new, human cornea from a donor eye. It's expensive and donor eyes are rare, and for people with certain diseases, that surgery never worked anyway. But now, a Professor at Harvard Medical school has come up with a solution that, for the first time, gives these people a chance to regain their sight.
Sharona Coutts has the story.
Dara L. MilesNORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this spring. The US-Canada military collaboration has undergone many changes since its Cold War beginning, but none have been as far reaching as those that came in the aftermath of 9/11.
Neil MunshiSince 1908, sixty years before the Beatles' Rocky Raccoon went into his room, only to find it, the Gideon-distributed Bible has been sent, gratis, to nearly every hotel in the U.S., as well as those in 183 countries. That's 1.4 billion, and counting.
Rana GoodRichard Calton founded HarlemLive, a web magazine run and edited by high school students, in 1996. From the start, students came in droves to write about issues like business, education and teen pregnancy. Nevertheless, for years, the group stumbled, financially and administratively. After several moves, the organization was forced out of its loft space on 125th Street because it could no longer afford the rent. Calton knew that the organization’s money had to go towards education and decided to move the program into a donated space. In January 2008, Calton reorganized the group, determined not to abandon the kids as he had once been abandoned.
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