While the rest of the automotive world was wrestling this week with the question of who would succeed Alan Mulally as Ford CEO, Fiat-Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne slipped into New York City to accept an award from a group promoting international business -- and made some news of his own.
Board a bus or a train today and chances are you'll see several people with eReaders in hand. While most probably bought their electronic books on a popular website, you may find a few who borrowed the paperless books from the library.
A group of supporters encircled the New York Public Library's 42nd Street branch in Manhattan arm-in-arm Saturday to show their love.
When Jane McGonigal was 21 and a bit listless, she went to the New York Public Library to reinvent herself. She read up on computer science and physics and used that knowledge to apply to a graduate program in game design in California.
Brooke Astor, who died Monday at age 105, was a combination of wit and elegance, compassion and generosity
FSB: An ATM for booksupdated: Thu Dec 14 2006 09:36:00
Buying a book could become as easy as buying a pack of gum. After several years in development, the Espresso - a $50,000 vending machine with a conceivably infinite library - is nearly consumer-rea...
The Wednesday sale of a portrait of George Washington will help the New York Public Library to procure more books and manuscripts -- but not as many as predicted.
Two portraits of George Washington by renowned artist Gilbert Stuart, one of them commissioned as a gift for Alexander Hamilton, are to be auctioned Wednesday at Sotheby's in Manhattan.
If fashion is your passion, there is hardly a better way to earn a paycheck than to work for a major magazine, unless you're pretty enough to grace the cover.
French Minister of the Interior Dominique de Villepin has criticized the way the war on terror is being conducted, objecting to the treatment of detainees linked to terrorism.
New York has always been a great food town, with cuisines from all over the world represented in its thousands of eating-places.
Carrie Bradshaw's fashion sense may not make sense to everyone, but for those who appreciate the style of the main character in "Sex and the City," here's a chance to get your hands on some of her threads before the show comes to an end.
Fortune: Vlad-Handingupdated: Mon Jun 07 1999 00:01:00
On the centennial of the birth of Vladimir Nabokov, lepidopterist, chess enthusiast, and possibly the greatest Russian and American novelist of the 20th century, here are a few tools to help you dr...
On reviewing my published columns, I find a glaring omission. It's been all money, no sex. I was reminded of this oversight by a report that the most popular face and figure on the Internet belongs...
That these are wonderful times for aging neoconservative hypochondriacs with modems was borne out yet again on a recent Sunday morning around 6 A.M. This was when your servant awoke with a swollen,...
EXECUTIVE LIFE/Cover Story 52 THE CEO'S SECOND WIFE Yes, she's typically younger than the first, and she's different in other ways. Often she has a substantial career. At the same time, she's a sho...
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