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Did you see those two monkeys in the Times Science section last week?  read more »

Did you see those two monkeys in the Times Science section last week?  read more »

Firefighters, Not Rudy, Are Heroes of 9/11

To the Editor:  read more »

When the President gave his little immigration speech, he wanted his listeners to be clear on one po  read more »

LAURIE: Our wedding guests will be driving or flying in to Central New York from New York City, New Jersey, Massachusetts, California, New Mexico, Colorado, Florida, Minnesota, Germany, possibly Israel, possibly Indonesia, possibly England. I will need to put together a list of suggested amusements and attractions to occupy my guests' downtime between Friday's "rehearsal dinner" picnic, Saturday's ceremony and reception, and Sunday's bagel brunch. This means that I need to change my attitude about the place where I grew up. I need to stop saying, "It's pretty, but there's no culture, and nothing to do." I was bored senseless as a teenager, but I didn't have a car.

There are a lot of things I've never done and seen in the area. There's an art park, a historical society, a lake and a yacht club in fancy-pants Cazenovia. I've passed the Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota, literally hundreds of times and never been inside. Sylvan Beach, on Oneida Lake, is the small-time, freshwater version of the Jersey Shore, complete with deathtrap carnival rides, scary bikers and fried everything.

Chittenango, the actual town in which I grew up and went to high school, is the birthplace of L. Frank Baum, the author of The Wizard of Oz. Downtown Chittenango, such as it is, has yellow brick sidewalks, several Oz-themed businesses, and a small Oz museum; every June there is an Oz Parade, at which a handful of surviving Munchkins make trembly appearances. The whole Oz thing was miles beneath my contempt as a teenager, before I knew the value (or, to be honest, the definition) of kitsch .

There are dozens of golf courses in the area, three separate Erie Canal museums, a salt museum, the museum of freaking distance running, places where you can pick your own berries, state parks for hiking and swimming, ice cream stands and family-run dairy farms.  read more »

Something for everyone, if I can just keep myself from apologizing for the lameness of it all.

Forget immigration, global warning, Donald Rumsfeld and abortion rights.  read more »

Forget immigration, global warning, Donald Rumsfeld and abortion rights.    read more »

It was a few days before Christmas, and it was well past 7 p.m.  read more »

The news that Manhattan real-estate prices took a plunge last quarter may not be the loud crack in t  read more »

With all the problems the American Catholic Church is having, it is surprising that many of its bish  read more »

It’s Jan. 20, 2005. Inauguration Day.  read more »

The sight of Janet Jackson's right breast hit America with the explosive force of a terrorist bomb.  read more »

Save Me!I'm Hooked On

Christian Talk  read more »

"I recommend the fondue du jour," said our waiter.  read more »

Instructions for the interested: Go to www.WeLiveInPublic.com.  read more »

The antigun posturing in the wake of the massacre inLittleton, Colo., took a bizarre turn recently w  read more »