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The earliest telephone numbers in New York; area codes

The answer to one question in this week’s “FYI” column, in the Times‘s city section, is totally fascinating. Here is the question and response: Q: Given the ubiquitousness of cellphones, it’s easy to...

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On Reading Aloud, Inaccurately

A recent New York Times editorial by Verlyn Klinkenborg offers “Some Thoughts on the Lost Art of Reading Aloud” and suggests that “the way we listen to books has been de-socialized, stripped of...

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Today’s Prize for Best Unnecessary Journalistic Detail

Randy Kennedy wins the prize for best unnecessary journalistic detail in today’s Times. In a story about the Wassaic Project, an art gallery housed in a converted grain silo and run by a handful of...

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