Ithaca

PHOTOS: Gorging On Ithaca's Gorgeous Gorges

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Brady | Posted 11.05.2012 | Travel

The famous T-shirt gets it right: Ithaca really is gorgeous. On a recent visit to the college town in Upstate New York, fall colors added additiona...

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PHOTOS: America's 10 Best River Towns

Posted 09.06.2012 | Travel

Read More: Nashville, Hood River, Best Towns in America, Ithaca, Boise, Richmond, Destinations, Missoula, Rivers, America Towns, Nevada City, Asheville, Americas Best Towns, US Destinations, Milwaukee, US Travel, Travel News

In order to rank the top river towns in America, the editors of Outside Magazine turned to locals, asking for them to vote for their towns and provide...

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Shale-Shocked

Ellen Cantarow | Posted 03.24.2012 | Green

Read More: Marcellus Shale, Fracking, Water, Fracking New York, Ithaca, Finger Lakes, Hydraulic Fracturing, New York Water, Dimock Pennsylvania Fracking, Dimock, Dimock Pennsylvania, Green News

This is a story about water, the land surrounding it, and the lives it sustains. But for once, this story isn't about tragedy. It's about a resistance movement that has arisen to challenge some of the most powerful corporations in history.

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Top Ten College Towns For Retirees

Posted 12.15.2011 | Fifty

Read More: Ithaca, Ann Arbor, Baby Boomers, State College, Asheville, Gainesville, Eugene, Retirement, College Towns, Fifty News

For more than a decade, retired Americans that are flocking to the culture and arts scenes and state-of-the-art medical facilities offered by college ...

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Cities Where Workers Most Use Public Transit

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 11.23.2011 | Business

Read More: Ferry, Jobs Crisis, Bus, Employees, Unemployment, Third Industrial Revolution, Subway, Public Transportation, Slidepollajax, Rail, Ithaca, U.S. Census, Public Transit, Train, Brookings, Business News

In such an urbanized country as the United States, it surprises how few of the nation's workers depend on public transport to make their daily commute...

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Crispy Cornell Chicken: An Upstate New York Classic

Meathead | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

If you like grilled chicken with golden crispy skin, say "thank you, to Bob Baker."

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Outsourcing War: I.F. Stone's Son on the Izzy Award to Jeremy Scahill

Jeff Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Ithaca College, Kbr, If Stone, The Andromeda Strain, Blackwater, Ithaca, Brown and Root, Izzy, Kellog Brown and Root, Politics News

America's all-volunteer army has the unfortunate disadvantage of protecting the decision to use military force from the political pressures that would exist were wealthy citizens subject to draft.

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Ivy League School Offers Tree Climbing Class

Mark Holton | Posted 05.25.2011 | College

Read More: Arborist, Cornell Gorges, Ithaca, Tree Climbing, Cornell, David Katz, Physical-Education, College News

We are not simply climbing hand over hand into trees and swinging around in the breeze. We use harnesses, helmets, ropes, carabiners and ascenders. Think "arborist" without the chainsaws.

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Cornell University Investigates Gorge Deaths

AP | MARY ESCH and MICHAEL HILL | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

Read More: Ithaca, Cornell Gorges, Cornell Gorge, Cornell Gorge Deaths, New York, Cornell University, Cornell, New York News

ITHACA, N.Y. — Cornell University, an Ivy League school known for its spectacular gorges and haunted by a reputation for suicides, took the extr...

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Study: Majority Of 'Calm Downs' Ineffective

The Onion | The Onion | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

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ITHACA, NY—A study published recently in the Journal Of Mental Health found that attempting to reverse a loud emotional display by......

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Early Snowfall Breaks Records

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — An autumn storm brought snow to parts of Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey, the earliest snow on record in some towns u...

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Top Ten Undiscovered Cities For Local Food (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Barbara Fenig | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

We here at HuffPost Green were so inspired by our readers' response to our 10 Best US Cities for Local Food piece that we decided to host another roun...

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Ithaca, N.Y. Benefitting From Recession: Affordable Homes Draw Buyers

USA Today | Christine Dugas | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

Read More: Ithaca Recession, Ithaca, Ithaca Ny, Ithaca New York, Ithaca Real Estate, Business News

Ithaca, a small city in Upstate New York, seems like a bucolic refuge from financial woes. It avoided the housing bubble, and so far, it has been shel...

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30 Years After TMI, A Lesson For Today's Economists

Meathead | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

Read More: Anti-Trust, Tmi, Pennsylvania, Nuclear Power, Jack Lemmon, Jane Fonda, Ithaca, Federal Trade Commission, Harrisburg, China Syndrome, Three Mile Island, Harrisburg-Pennsylvania, Business News

Our new test for any enterprise, be it a financial institution, a power plant, or a war, must be, "Is it too large to be allowed to fail?" If the answer is "yes" then we cannot proceed.

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