The News | 7.12.10
From 2006 to 2010, police officers performed the controversial "Stop. Question. Frisk." tactic on 52,000 Brownsville residents, mostly in or near the public housing projects. The New York Times reports that on night, 20 officers surrounded a man who refused to let an officer smell the contents of his orange juice container.
Con Edison can't seem to handle this summer heat. Last night, the energy company lowered voltage in three more Brooklyn neighborhoods: Coney Island, Seagate, and Gravesend. A Con Ed spokesperson told CBS that the company would be doing customer appeals, asking people to turn off anything they do not absolutely need.
The Brooklyn Public Library now has 13,000 e-books available to download to your iPad or Kindle. Michael Santangelo, who curates the electronic book collection at the library, says "You have to respond to what your patrons what."
A group of protesters gathered in front of Ricky's cosmetics shop on Montague Street to demand the store stops selling products from Ahava, an Israeli company that takes mud from the Dead Sea and manufactures it into beauty products in an Israeli settlement in the West Bank. The protesters, part of the "Stolen Beauty" tour, say Ahava's business is a dirty exploitation of Palestinian resources.
A pair of two-year-old twins from Canarsie do everything together — even open heart surgery. The NY Daily News says that although they had no noticeable symptoms, an abnormality within their hearts was causing the organs to work harder to pump blood into the aortas, which could have proved fatal later in life if it was not discovered and treated.
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