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Didja ever read ???Blindness??? by Jose Saramago? (No? It won the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature, you cretin). Anyhow, that??™s what today in NYC is like??”it??™s as if the city??™s been hit by an epidemic of white blindness, snow flying everywhere, those tiny, razor-like flakes of ice slicing into the white jelly of your eyes.
Don??™t you just LOVE winter?!

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Too poor to see a therapist? Maybe some counsel from an Ed2010 message board will help. The new Ed on Campus board is up and running (go to http://www.ed2010.com/eoc/ and click on 'message board') in addition to the regular one at http://www.ed2010.com/boards/.

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News
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1. NY Post
Cookie Aims To Tempt Parents
By Richard Wilner
2/28/05
http://www.nypost.com/business/40459.htm

Fairchild Publications, home to W, Jane and Details magazines, will launch an upscale lifestyle magazine for parents this fall.

The magazine ??” to be called Cookie ??” will be published six times a year with a circulation base of 300,000.

The launch, whispered about in magazine circles for months, could be announced as soon as today.

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2. NY Post
Money, Munch & Martha

2/28/05
http://www.nypost.com/business/40473.htm

With March upon us, we're steeped in the season to come ??” spring training, renewal, love, and well ??” counting down the days on your federal prison sentence.

We're sorry, but we just can't get our minds off Martha Stewart, whose stretch in West Virginia's Club Fed winds down in just five days. That's barely enough time to knit a nice throw for the warden. (Note to staff at Martha Stewart Living: better get to the Bedford estate and clean up the empty bags of chips, the beer cans and the Outkast CDs.) Editor Margaret Roach can hardly keep from getting all gushy. "This year, we usher in spring with an extra measure of gratitude, because the month of March not only marks the vernal equinox on the twentieth and the real start of our Northeast growing season, but also Martha's homecoming," Roach writes in her editor's letter. The tenth annual gardening edition is packed with solid advice for readers and lots of the usual solid photos, writing and art. The editorial hardly appears to have missed a beat while Martha was in the big house ??” although the company recently announced it lost $60 million and ad pages dropped nearly 50 percent last year.

We don't know if it's true or not, but the rumor on the street was that Oprah Winfrey, to help Martha Stewart forget about her time in federal lock-up, banned striped clothes from every photo shoot for this month's magazine. Isn't it so warm and fuzzy when two of the country's most successful women, one indicted and one not, can get along so well? O, The Oprah Magazine's March issue also has a green theme to it, but it's not garden ing, it's money. The special pack age hits all the right notes, with a list of things to do to save money, a piece by Suze "Clich?©" Orman, a story about women who out-earn their husbands and much, much more. Of course, the fashion section, with brilliantly lit photos by Patrik Anderson, is all about how to spend $1,500 on spring clothes. By the way, Oprah is clearly a lot heavier than Martha. By a lot. I'm talking about their respective March magazine issues, of course.

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3. TIME Online Edition
Our Explorer of the New World
By Norman Pearlstine/Editor-in-Chief
3/07/05
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1032378,00.html

It was typical of Henry Grunwald's unyielding honesty and his precise mind that he disapproved of using the words "passed away" to refer to someone who has died. So I will honor him in reporting what is sad news in the unequivocal language he would have insisted upon. Henry Anatole Grunwald, one of the most distinguished managing editors in TIME's history and for decades a pre-eminent figure in American journalism, died last week. He was 82 and in his later years had faced a number of difficulties, which, being Henry, he treated as opportunities. Last year he suffered a near fatal cardiac arrest, which he survived thanks to a defibrillator. He had barely recovered when he set forth to write a book on defibrillators.

Henry, a European immigrant who never took anything in the New World for granted, was a pivotal figure in TIME's development. He moved the magazine away from partisanship and strengthened the independence of its voice in national and world affairs. He directed its unflinching coverage of Watergate and wrote an editorial, the first in TIME's history, that called for Richard Nixon's resignation. He was deeply inquisitive about the tumultuous changes of his time--social, economic, political and cultural--and supremely alert to the nuances of the zeitgeist. To name one instance of his intuition: it was Henry who ordered up TIME's famous 1966 cover asking the question "Is God Dead?" (For the record, the answer was no.)

It may have been his greatest advantage as an editor that he was an insider (he counted as friends everyone from Marilyn Monroe to Henry Kissinger) who began as an outsider. Henry arrived in the U.S. in 1938 with his parents, Jewish refugees from Hitler's Anschluss of their native Austria. He would write about it much later in his memoir, One Man's America. "I love America," he wrote, "because it took me in from the madness of wartime Europe and allowed me to make it my country." Love was the key word. All his life, he approached America with a kind of infatuation, hungry to know and to understand everything about the place.

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4. NY Times
Softening the Clinking Sound of Money
By Katharine W. Seelye
2/28/05
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/28/business/media/28money.html?

Cover up the title and you would think you were looking at a lifestyle magazine for women: a brunette model is flopped on the grass with her guy snuggled close, whispering secrets in her ear.

But he's not whispering sweet nothings. He's talking money.

Money magazine, a warhorse in the Time Inc. stable since 1972, is reinventing itself. With the April issue, the magazine will be transformed from a get-rich investment guide aimed largely at men to a family-friendly helpmate that the editors hope will also appeal to women, younger readers and a broader base of advertisers.

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