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Mayoral Candidates Sound Pretty Skeptical of Regulation-Skirting ‘Disruptors’MIT’s New Robot Cheetah Is a Better Cheetah Than Real Cheetahs Who Run the Universe? Half of NASA’s New Crop of Astronauts Are Women

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Mayoral Candidates Sound Pretty Skeptical of Regulation-Skirting ‘Disruptors’State Legislature Moves to Ban Novelty Lighters Rubén Díaz Thinks Jeff Klein Is ‘Eating All the Candies’

GalleristNY

‘Martial Raysse: 1960–1974′ at Luxembourg & Dayan Where Do We Go From Here?: Critics Lament the State of Art, but Things Are Looking Up in New Books ‘Subliming Vessel: The Drawings of Matthew Barney’ at the Morgan Library & Museum

Media

Michael Hastings Dies In Car Accident Michael Cooper Moves to The Times Culture Desk Facebook Is Almost a Decade Old and Still Doesn't Get the Advertising Game

Real Estate

Alms for the Upper Middle Class: Subsidized Apartments Aim at $200K Earners 10 Madison Square West Interiors: A Study In Classy Neutrals On the Market: NYU Helps Finance Academics' Summer Homes; Nobody Likes SeaPort City; BAM South to Move Forward

Culture

To Error Is Human: The Slapstick Shakespeare in the Park Is Irresistible Stare Thee Well: Eye-Gazing Parties Aren't Just for Pick-Up Artists Anymore Write Man in the Palais: Michael Azerrad's New Site Brings DIY Ethos and Peer Review to Music Criticism

Opinion

The Next Flood Waste Not Keep the City Safe

Commercial Observer

City OKs Demolition at Avenue A Site With 15,617-SF of Retail Space City and NYU-Poly Announce Dumbo ‘Clean Tech’ Incubator Jack Terzi of JTRE on Growing, Organically

By Stephen Metcalf 4/08/02 12:00am

In Mesabi Iron-Range Mines, A Lode of Sexual Harassment

Class Action: The Story of Lois Jenson and the Landmark Case That Changed

Sexual Harassment Law , by Clara Bingham and Laura Leedy Gansler. Doubleday, 390 pages, $27.50.

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