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Features the paper recycling plant Visy based in Staten Island, New York. Production capacity of the company; Highlight on the economic implications of recycling programs; Outline of a recycling process.

Profiles Kate Flax, proprietor and owner of the stationery shop called Paperie in Manhattan, New York. Services offered to customers; Concept modification on stationery paper designs; Description of shop interiors; Illustration of paper designs.

Discusses the change in the editorial leadership of the newspaper 'New York Times.' Controversies surrounding the newspaper; Leadership style of editor Arthur Sulzberger Jr.; Role of the stockholders in running the newspaper; Public reputation of the newspaper.

Presents several gift ideas in New York. Chocolates; Cosmetics; Sports gear.

Reports on the 1999 legislative objectives of the Independent Insurance Agents Association of New York. Position on electronic commerce; Oversight of state insurance fund activities; Property insurance market improvements; Extension of the New York Property Insurance Underwriting Association.

Presents information pertaining to convening of the New York's legislators in Albany for their 98th session while highlighting the endeavors of the Independent Insurance Agents Association of New York (IIAANY). Comments from Michael V. Barrett, IIAANY's legislative representative; Information on bank insurance sales activities; What the law says concerning a bank.

Announces several art exhibitions in New York City for March 1995. Includes `My Andy,' that comprises Deborah Kass' reinventions of various works by Andy Warhol; `American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture,' with works by Jack Beal, Sylvia Plimack Mangold and John Wislow; List of museums in New York City. INSET: Melancholy brilliance, by Mark Stevens..

Discusses New York City's procurement system. Department of General Services provision of supplies to agencies; Poor contracting procedures; Different interpretations of contract language; Parking Violations Bureau scandal in 1986; Procurement Policy Board's plan to establish uniform, citywide rules for purchasing; Vanguard Group of printing companies as biggest single supplier; More.

Presents several environment-friendly products and programs. Vegetable-based liquid dish and laundry detergent from Shadow Lake company; Information on the `Think Green' program of The State University of New York in Buffalo to reduce the environmental impact of colleges and universities; Organic paper products from Acorn Designs company.

Reviews the art exhibition 'About Paper,' several artists at the Kristen Frederickson Contemporary Art gallery in New York City.

Nearly 50 years after his death and a century after the then unknown physicist started challenging doctrine and stretching brains with his ideas, Albert Einstein remains not just scientifically relevant but a multipurpose icon as well. If anything, his stature has grown over the decades, fed by a steady stream of books, pop-culture references, and posthumous appearances in commercials and on T-shirts, coffee mugs, and most anything else that will sit still long enough to be stamped with a photo and a quote. But the more we see that image, the less we seem to know about the real Einstein and the work that made him famous. Thanks in large measure to an ambitious publishing effort, a much more nuanced view of the greatest scientist of the 20th century is taking shape. The Einstein Papers Project, now in its eighth volume, will ultimately publish some 14,000 original documents in a planned 25 volumes. Early drafts of famous papers are allowing historians to track the development of his ideas (he didn't pluck them fully formed from the cosmos after all) and his voluminous correspondence reveals a real human being. As a powerful new exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History in New York shows, the Einstein that emerges is at once darker, richer, and infinitely more fascinating than the friendly icon we thought we knew. Einstein himself attributed his success to a slow start. "A normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time," he once wrote. "But my intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had grown up." According to family tradition, recorded by Albert's sister Maja in an unpublished biography, her brother was unusual from the start. Though he showed a remarkable ability to focus on difficult tasks like building houses of cards, he was slow to develop and didn't start speaking until at least the age of 2 1/2. INSET: The Activist.

Reports that the National Resources Defence Council (NRDC) and Banana Kelly, a community group, have joined two paper companies to develop a recycling plant, Bronx Community Paper Co. in Bronx, New York. Financial contributions of Modo Paper Co. of Stockholm, Sweden and the S.D. Warren, Boston; Objectives; Employment requirement; Environmentally positive projects.

This article reports that a June 1, 1995 federal deadline for the switch to computerized, paperless trading of stocks and bonds has retail investors and securities firms poised for an overhaul that will forever change the way Wall Street operates. It is reported that stock and bond trades that are currently settled within five days will be narrowed to three. A speedier settlement is meant to be a safeguard against a financial collapse.

Focuses on the local paper money used by the people in Ithaca, New York. Advantages of using `hours' instead of dollars; Description of the `hours' money; Hometown Money Starter Kit that explains start-up and maintenance of an `hours' system.

Reports on the winning of the Natural Resources Defense Council's (NRDC) and the Banana Kelly Community Improvement Association in a lawsuit concerning the construction of an environmentally friendly paper mill in the South Bronx of New York City. Features of the case; Impact of the lawsuit on investors of the proposed paper mill; Comment by Alan Hershkowitz, senior NRDC scientist.

Focuses on an exhibition of works on paper by Dana Schutz, Amy Sillman and Kara Walker at the Sikkema gallery in New York City. Works done with gouache; Jointed cut-paper silhouettes by Walker; Schutz’s faux-naive creatures; Sillman’s improvisational landscapes; Contact information.

Reports on the efforts of residents of Ithaca, New York to keep money circulating within their own community and out of the hands of the big chains. Out-of-town shopping controversies involving Wal-Mart Stores; Implementation of the Ithaca Hours project; Idea behind the project; Wide acceptance of the concept by town residents.

Presents information on the Paper Sculpture Show which opened in fall 2003 in New York City. Aim of the show; Curators of the show.

Reports on a research conducted by Elizabeth Tibbetts, a doctoral candidate at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, which shows that wasps recognize other wasps by sight. Differences in the appearances of various paper wasps; Assumption of scientists about the behavior of wasps; Exercise carried out to clear the myth about wasps.

The author describes how "The New York Review of Books" has become increasingly politicized since the election of President George W. Bush. In the wake of the Vietnam War, the "Review" became a formidable--and, in some sense, unique--journalistic institution. Many of its readers reside in academia, but the paper has a devoted following in the upper reaches of media, politics and philanthropy, which gives it an influence vastly out of proportion to its circulation of 130,000. The publication has always been erudite and authoritative--and because of its analytical rigor and seriousness, frequently essential--but it hasn't always been lively, pungent and readable. But the election of George W. Bush, combined with the furies of 9/11, jolted the editors. Since 2001, the "Review's" temperature has risen and its political outlook has sharpened. In stark contrast to "The New Yorker" or "The New York Times Magazine," the "Review" opposed the Iraq war in a voice that was remarkably consistent and unified. What blew the dust off "The New York Review?" As war drew closer, and the press grew more accommodating and deferential, the "Review's" disgust increased, and the editors fired their heavy weaponry. The fall of Baghdad only deepened the fury of the "Review's" contributors. Judt is not the "Review's" only critical voice on Israel. What accounts for the "Review's" post-9/11 revival? One word that continually tumbles from the lips of seasoned "Review"-watchers is "Vietnam." In the case of Iraq, as with Vietnam, the "Review" saw what many other commentators missed or ignored.

Reports on the local paper currency, Ithaca HOUR, which is limited to Ithaca, New York. Creator Paul Glover; Ithaca as part of an international movement toward local self-sufficiency in capitalist countries; Communities in the United States that have adopted hometown money systems modeled on Ithaca's; Idea of alternative currency.

Reports on the construction of a recycling facility called Bronx Community Paper Co. in New York City developed by Yolanda Rivera, head of the community-development group Banana Kelly. Investors; Slated date for groundbreaking; Design of the plant by Maya Lin.

Reports that the Fales Library of New York University has launched a virtual exhibit of paper book bindings of the World Wide Web. What the exhibit includes; Address of the site.

Reports on the objective of the Bronx Community Paper Company in New York City, to recycle newspapers and magazines in an effort to save timber forests. By whom the company was established; Support given by United States' president Bill Clinton and New York governor George Pataki on the preservation effort; When construction of the plant is expected to be completed; Description of the plant site. INSET: Fast facts Bronx recycling plant.

Explores the art of hand-papermaking at Dieu Donne Papermill in lower Manhattan. Clientele of the papermill; Ingredients of all-natural paper; History of the papermill; Papermaking activities; The features of the mill; Workspace Program; Details.

Describes the automation of the curricular change process at Monroe Community College in Rochester, New York. Problems with the traditional curricular change process; Primary objective of the curriculum database project; Approaches used by the development team to eliminate or reduce structural barriers.

Recalls the shutdown of three New York newspapers in 1966 because of the failure of unions to reach agreement on another contract. What hastened the demise of the 'Herald Tribune' newspaper; Reason for the creation of the Newspaper Preservation Act.

Evaluates two restaurants in New York City that serve Italian dishes. Views on the pizza served at Picasso Cafe; Details on the pasta dishes at Caffe Linda.

Presents a workshop for teachers on marbling and bookbinding. Clarkstown High School North in New York City, New York's Crafts Club; Role reversal between students and teachers; Fostering self-esteem.

Reports on the printing of money by people in Ithaca, New York. Concept of the Ithaca Time Zone; Uses and equivalents of Ithaca HOURs; Ithaca's one-HOUR note in honor of Beverly J. Martin, former principal of Ithaca's Central Elementary School; Legality of the local currency. INSET: Beware of `false wealth'..

Features New York, New York-based Paper Library, a shop specializing in wallpaper design. Comments from owner Emily Todhunter and David Oliver; Description of the shop's various designs.

The article reports that the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy is soliciting papers and panels that deal with the variety of roles the Merchant Marine has played. These will be presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the North American Society for Oceanic History and the National Maritime Historical Society which will be hosted by the Academy. The conference will take place May 17-20, 2007 at Kings Point, New York and the theme will be "The Merchant Marine in Peace and War."

Focuses on the impact of the publication of the academic grades of a former student leader on the Long Island University at Brooklyn student newspaper. Replacement of an article that ran about the resignation of a student body president; Violation of the federal privacy standards; Apology of the paper on the incident.

Reports on the availability of Malcolm X documents at the New York Public Library in New York City. Access of researchers to the papers; Details on the collection; Historical importance of the materials.

The article focuses on Surrealism of the late 1930s and early 1940s. Surrealism was essentially a literary movement, whose primary products were books, magazines, poems, letters and manifestoes. The legendary Surrealist exhibitions of the late 1930s and early 1940s were Surrealist in spirit and secondarily Surrealist in content. In 1942, for example, an exhibition called "The First Papers of Surrealism" was installed at the Whitelaw Reid mansion on Madison Avenue in New York, and those that attended it were far more likely to remember the show itself than any of the works on display.

Describes the selection processes three New York daily newspapers, the `Times,' the `Post,' and New York `Newsday' used to decide which candidate to support in the New York Democratic mayoral primary.

Reports on the apprehension of newspaper thieves by New York City Sanitation Police Officers William Lugo and William Martinez. Earnings of the Sanitation Department from old newspapers; Conversation with the thieves.

Comments on the editorial board of the `New York Times.' The power the board has in shaping the outcome of New York City elections; Evidence of this in the September 1997 Democratic primaries; Question as to who is responsible for such influence.

Traces the Crown Heights riot of 1991 and New York City Mayor David Dinkins' delayed action. Similarity to a pogrom; Attacks of blacks against Jews after the death of Gavin Cato and Yankel Rosenbaum; Phone calls requesting police assistance; Police inaction; Misunderstanding about the nature of the situation; Mayor's disregard of information from the media and Hasidic leaders; Speculations on Dinkins handling of the situation.

Describes New York City-based law firm Schmukler & Saint Clare's experience in office automation using Integrated Concepts' FlexPractice document-assembly system. Benefits of automation; Areas of practice affected by automation; System features and functions.

Gives information on donation of a collection of papers from United States presidents and other political leaders of the 18th and 19th centuries to the Cornell University by Sarah Cornell, a Cornell graduate and her sister Gwyneth Johnson Lymberis. Their relation to John and Abigail Adams; Contents of the Johnson papers; Details of historical value with letters written by governors and senators.

Presents some of the best things to buy in New York City. Children's clothing at Coco & Z store; Ralph Lauren's sneakers at Polo Sport; Wastepaper bags by JaJo; Montblanc's limited edition Traveller writing instrument.

As editor and publisher of the world's most famous newsletter, I.F. Stone's "Weekly," as a reporter and columnist for PM and its successor papers, as Washington editor of "The Nation," as a frequent contributor to "The New York Review of Books," Izzy was a quadruple threat. He combined the meat and potatoes moxie of a police reporter, the instinct for precision of a scholar, the question phrasing skill of a Socrates never better manifested than in his 1988 best seller, "The Trial of Socrates," and the political philosophy of an anarchist if he was to be believed when he wrote that "every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed." Actually, he confided to an international gathering of investigative journalists in Amsterdam a couple of years ago.

In New York, armies of furious journalists clash by night with treacherous and greedy publishers. Editors and columnists scurry between sinking scows, and readers are barraged by scandal and smut. Headlines called parking lot king turned publisher Abe Hirschfeld this nut and taunt co-owner and editor Wilbert Tatum as ready for slime time. New York is a radically diverse city, but the new non-European, unhomogenized majority is excluded from the media mainstream. The Hirschfeld Tatum idea of a multicultural paper is pretty good-minus Hirschfeld and Tatum, of course, who indeed may be gone by the time this is read.

Reports acquisition of the papers of Marcia J. Brown, three-time Caldecott Award-winning author and illustrator of children's books, by the Department of Special Collections at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Information on the collection.

Reports on the acquisition of the personal papers of James E. Allen by the New York State Library.

Discusses an auction, at the New York City Museum of Chinese in the Americas, which featured thousands of intricate paper and scrap sculptures crafted by detained Chinese artists. The artists, whose boat ran aground two and a half years ago, being detained in a federal detention center in Pennsylvania; Differing measures of the auction's success.

The article focuses on the competition between the New York "Post," and the New York "Daily News," commonly known as the "Tabloid Wars. " Details related to average circulation are provided. The author reports that the "Post" hired an executive of the "Daily News," who subsequently began to shift "Daily News" accounts to the "Post. " Details related to other competitive acts between the tabloids are recounted.

Profiles Howell Raines, executive editor of the newspaper 'The New York Times' in New York City. Praises received for running the editorial page of the paper; Lessons learned from his father about conveying a sense of command; Problems emerged on the coverage made by the paper on the events of the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Profiles Harvey Miller, head of the Judith Rothschild Foundation based in New York. Career history of Miller; Number of contemporary drawings collected by Miller; Art shows launched by Miller.