Jerry Speyer, a real estate investor who controls some of the city’s most prominent icons, like Rockefeller Center and the Chrysler Building, signed a deal to buy 110 apartment buildings along the East River in Manhattan for $5.4 billion, MetLife announced today. [ MORE ]
'Acid' as a Cure for Alcoholism
Oct. 16, 2006 — Imagine this.
You are hooked on alcohol and you want help getting off the booze.
You go to your doctor, and he or she says, "Drop some acid."
That's right. LSD, the infamous drug of choice for many hippies in the 1960s and '70s.
Lysergic acid diethylamide, the drug that caused hallucinations or "tripping," was, of course, outlawed, giving it immeasurable street cred in its time, before fading away as flower-painted bodies grew into gray-flannel suits.
So, in the 21st century, why would a respected medical doctor even consider prescribing LSD as a wonder drug to help cure alcoholism? [ MORE ]
NEW YORK (Oct. 13) - A woman whose apartment was burned in the high- rise crash of New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle's plane was the victim of another frightening, bizarre and high-profile Manhattan accident years earlier, when a lamppost knocked over by a parade float seriously injured her.
Kathleen Caronna and her family were unhurt in Wednesday's crash, which killed Lidle and his flight instructor, Tyler Stanger. But the engine of the Cirrus SR20 landed in her bedroom, which went up in flames minutes before she would arrived home, her relatives told the Daily News in Friday's editions. [ MORE ]
According to rumour sites across the Internet, iPhone will be the saviour of disenchanted mobile users, combining Apple's classy design with a faultless interface.
So far we've heard it'll sport an iPod-esque music player, pack in a decent camera and come in a range of colours too. Now the latest rumor is that it'll also run iChat. Apple's instant messaging service, and let you videoconference on the move.
The latest iPhone murmurs come from teh Mac fans over at LoopRumors, who have learned Apple is thinking well outside the box for the mobile version of iChat.
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