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Financial Turmoil Grips World Markets

Toymakers Go Back To Basics At N.Y. Trade Show

At this year's Toy Fair in New York, there's less emphasis on presentation and more on the products themselves. Some manufacturers are surviving the economic downturn by producing more affordable toys and dropping costly models. Buzz words on the exhibition floor include "classic," "safe," "green" and "made in the U.S.A." The makers of longtime favorites LEGO and Slinky report strong sales. "In these times, people want basic toys," the head of Poof-Slinky Inc. says.

Toymakers Go Back To Basics At N.Y. Trade Show

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Financial Turmoil Grips World Markets

N.Y. Archdiocese Cuts Funding To 10 Schools

Catholic schools across the country are in trouble. Changes in demographics, finances and religious life are part of the picture. Now the New York Archdiocese is telling 10 Catholic high schools that church funding will be a thing of the past. Local boards will fundraise, set budgets and tuition. Whether it will work is unclear, but other Catholic communities have done this with success.

N.Y. Archdiocese Cuts Funding To 10 Schools

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National

Black Boxes Note Ice Buildup In NY Crash

NPR's Margot Adler reports the latest on the Thursday-night crash of a commuter jet into a house near Buffalo, New York. All 49 people on the plane were killed, along with one person in the house.

Black Boxes Note Ice Buildup In NY Crash

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Investigators Probe Fatal Plane Crash Near Buffalo

The National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration are investigating Thursday night's deadly commuter plane crash in a suburb of Buffalo, N.Y. A Continental Airlines commuter plane went down, killing all 49 people on board and an occupant of the house it crashed into. It's the nation's first fatal crash of a commercial airliner in 2 ½ years.

Investigators Probe Fatal Plane Crash Near Buffalo

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Mysterious New York City Smell Is Fenugreek

Every since 2005, New Yorkers have occasionally experienced the smell of maple syrup wafting over their neighborhood. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Thursday the mystery was solved: fenugreek seeds being processed by a food-manufacturing company in New Jersey.

Mysterious New York City Smell Is Fenugreek

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Music Interviews

Botstein Revives The East German Avant-Garde

On Jan. 25, the American Symphony Orchestra will give the U.S. premieres of composers from the former East Germany. It's music most Americans have never heard. Conductor Leon Botstein says that the music of Eisler, Fessay and Matthus often experiments within the tradition of Bach and Mozart.

Botstein Revives The East German Avant-Garde

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National

Rochester, N.Y., Barbers Energized By Obama

Among the scores of buses that streamed toward Washington this week was a bus chartered by a group of African-American barbers and beauticians from Rochester, N.Y. The group went with high hopes and left feeling inspired by President Barack Obama's call to serve the country.

Rochester, N.Y., Barbers Energized By Obama

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Presidential Inauguration Of Barack Obama

Taking Lessons From FDR's First 100 Days

In Hyde Park, N.Y., people are flocking to an exhibit depicting Franklin D. Roosevelt's first 100 days in office during the Great Depression. When the exhibit was planned more than a year ago, no one could have predicted its current relevance as Obama gets ready to move into the White House.

Taking Lessons From FDR's First 100 Days

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National

Paterson Lauds 'Miracle On The Hudson'

New York Gov. David Paterson described as the "miracle on the Hudson" the rescue of more than 150 people aboard US Airways Flight 1549, which went down in the Hudson River. Both he and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg praised the aircraft's pilot.

Paterson Lauds 'Miracle On The Hudson'

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Education

Blue Man Group Creates High-Tech NYC Preschool

The founders of the quirky Blue Man Group trio have opened a preschool in New York's East Village with a padded room, climbing wall and light floor with high-tech games. The Blue School — at up to $27,000 a year — is an experiment to help kids explore "divergent thinking."

Blue Man Group Creates High-Tech NYC Preschool

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National

Belafonte Puts Rev. King's Notes Up For Auction

The documents include the first draft of the civil rights leader's Feb. 25, 1967, anti-war speech, sketched out in Belafonte's New York City apartment, and notes for a speech on the Poor People's Campaign that King planned to deliver in Memphis the day he was killed.

Belafonte Puts Rev. King's Notes Up For Auction

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Your Money

New York's Abercrombie Bucks The Retail Blues

America may be in a recession — but you wouldn't know it from the lines of customers — often more than 200 people deep — around the Abercrombie & Fitch store on New York's Fifth Avenue. People line up every morning before the store open. Who are these people? Why are they there? What are they buying and why?

New York's Abercrombie Bucks The Retail Blues

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Arts & Life

Artist Provides Booths For Prayer

They look just like telephone booths, but they are decorated with hands folded in prayer, and there's a place to kneel. The prayer booths are an art installation designed to spark dialogue on prayer in the public sphere. There are prayer booths in Jackson, Tennessee, in Ceder Rapids Iowa — and now on a bustling Manhattan street in New York City.

Artist Provides Booths For Prayer

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