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Martha Flumenbaum is a lawyer living in New York City.

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Six-Plus Years After Hurricane Katrina, Now Is a Great Time to Visit New Orleans

Posted January 30, 2012 | 01/30/12 02:25 PM ET

Take a free ferry ride on the Mississippi River.

Browse the galleries, boutiques and jewelry stores on Royal Street.

Stop and hear some live jazz musicians while snacking on some pralines or a King Cake.

Street musician jazz band The Royal Street Gum Scrapers doesn't have...

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At the United Nations, Pictures Taken by Jewish Photographers in the Lodz Ghetto Are Shown in America for the First Time

Posted January 25, 2012 | 01/25/12 06:56 AM ET

Tuesday night marked the opening of an exhibit entitled The Face of the Ghetto, Pictures Taken by Jewish Photographers in the Lodz Ghetto 1940-1944, at the United Nations.

During World War II, the Nazis established the second largest ghetto for Jews in the occupied Polish city Lodz.

In April 1940,...

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Too Big to Care: All Out of Love with Bank of America

Posted October 12, 2011 | 10/12/11 02:25 PM ET

I'm 32 years old. I've been banking since 1997 when I was 18 years old and I went to college. I never switched banks before in my life. Until today. I joined Fleet when I went to college because it was in Boston and in New York and because they...

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Why Are Vegetarians So Depressing?: An Evening With Jonathan Safran Foer

Posted December 8, 2009 | 12/08/09 12:41 PM ET

Animal agriculture is a bigger cause of global warming than cars.

You'd be better off driving a Hummer than eating a steak.

Eating too much meat can cause heart disease and cancer.

Factory farms cause pollution and the people who live near them are getting asthma.

Animals on factory farms...

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