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If no good deed is allowed to go unpunished, Kathryn Martinez should have seen two punishments coming. To reduce their reliance on commercial food sources, she and her fiance planted a vegetable garden in the backyard of their home in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn. Hesitant to pick their lettuce too soon, they left it in the ground. When they finally pulled it up, the lettuce had gone bad. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Tavern on the Green, the landmark restaurant in Central Park, agreed on Monday to pay $2.2 million to settle a lawsuit in which the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission had accused it of severe sexual and racial discrimination. The commission said that the restaurant had ''engaged in severe and pervasive'' sexual and racial harassment of female, black and Hispanic employees. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Harold Wenning, 69, remembers what he called ''the one-for-five trick'' from his days running a news kiosk in Midtown Manhattan. ''They'll say it's a five and give you a one,'' he said. ''I had a guy say it was a 20 once and he gave me a one. I had a guy buy a roll of quarters from me and he gave me a dollar. That happens.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Now the firefighters want their retroactive raise of nearly 10 percent, too. One day after an arbitration panel awarded New York City's police officers a raise amounting to 9.7 percent over two years, the Uniformed Firefighters Association said on Tuesday that it would exercise its option to reopen its contract covering the same two years -- 2004 to 2006. The firefighters received raises of less than 3 percent the first year and 3.15 percent the second year in that now-expired contract. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]