36 Hours in New York City

Here is one of my favorite cities!  Doesn’t matter how many times I visited it, it still offers some more interesting things to do/see… read on!

36 Hours in New York City

URBAN renewal. The phrase conjures up government-backed megaprojects from the ’70s, but it’s organic to New York, where someone is always getting off the bus, train or plane. In the last year, the city has opened a hot new park, Lincoln Center celebrated its 50th anniversary with a major face-lift that includes a new fountain with 353 custom-made, computer-controlled nozzles, and the center of cool shifted innumerable times (but it’s probably still somewhere in Brooklyn)….read more

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Open Office

Editorial Review from PCWorld

Not happy with the idea of a Web-based office application–nor with paying gobs of money for Microsoft’s office suite? Then you want the downloadable OpenOffice.org, the free competitor to Microsoft Office. It’s a full suite, with a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation program, database, and drawing program–and, for ubergeeks, a “mathematical function calculator” (if you have to ask what it is, you don’t need it).

You may think that because OpenOffice.org is free, it’s an anemic or difficult to use. Nothing could be further from the truth. It does just about everything Microsoft Office does, including opening and saving files in Office file formats, as well as many others…. (more)

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The 7 foods experts won’t eat

by Liz Vaccariello, Editor-in-Chief, PREVENTION

How healthy (or not) certain foods are—for us, for the environment—is a hotly debated topic among experts and consumers alike, and there are no easy answers. But when Prevention talked to the people at the forefront of food safety and asked them one simple question—“What foods do you avoid?”—we got some pretty interesting answers. Although these foods don’t necessarily make up a “banned” list, as you head into the holidays—and all the grocery shopping that comes with it—their answers are, well, food for thought:

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America’s Cheapest Health Foods

Eating well has never been so expensive. Over the past two years, the cost of vegetables, meat, fruit, and other high-nutrition, low-calorie foods has increased by an average of 19.5 percent. But junk foods? Their prices have actually decreased slightly, by 1.8 percent. Our economic outlook isn’t only making it harder to make ends meet—it’s making it harder to make the two ends of our belts meet. In fact, researchers recently estimated the cost of a diet based on high-calorie foods versus one based on healthy, low-calorie foods. The high-calorie diet…. (more)

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