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- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: an officer assaulted on Church Ave. and 53rd St. in Brooklyn, a car into a coffee shop in the area of Skillman and 50th in Queens, and two people shot on Park Ave. and 17th St. in Manhattan.
- An insurance broker pleaded guilty to idiotic target practice that launched arrows from his compound bow on the Upper East Side.
- Bono and Bloomberg's mutual admiration society.
- Brooklyn state Assemblyman Dov Hikind wants to distribute 10,000 alcohol-based hand sanitizing pen devices to NYC schoolkids. Handing out alcohol-based anythings to teenagers? We foresee this project being hugely popular and widely disastrous.
- A 60-year-old 84-foot tall spruce tree from Connecticut was chosen as this year's Rockefeller Center Christmas tree.
- Don Imus is slated to return to the airwaves December 3rd of this year. He was fired from his former job for calling members of the Rutgers women's basketball team "nappy headed hos."
- A guard trying to break up some Halloween egg-throwing last night in Mt. Vernon was shot in the head and chest.
- Brig. General Paul W. Tibbets Jr., the commander and pilot of the Enola Gay who dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, died this week at the age of 92.
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Er...alcohol-based, as in RUBBING ALCOHOL. You know, the kind you can't drink. All hand sanitizers have alcohol in them.
Dov Hikind is the jewish John Liu. Anything to get his name in the paper.
Cool costumes.
smitty, are you sure they're not handing out pens dipped in Schlitz?
I will never understand why someone would allow a perfectly healthy tree that has been quietly, happily thriving in their back yard to be cut down for the sake of a bunch of slack-jawed tourists. And what do they get in exchange? A free night at a hotel? That's just sad.
Recommending alcohol-based hand sanitizers to be used in schools proves once again that to be elected to a public office requires no education, and no sense of understanding of the issues. This fellow might have just as easily voted to send a container load of rocket launchers to a shipping dock in Iraq and hope that whoever gets it, uses them correctly.
Schools throughout the country,as well as every licensed day care facility in NY State are banning alcohol-based hand sanitizers due to their inherent dangers--not just dry/irritated skin, but also due to other inherent dangers..profiled in last years report re 12,000 cases of child-related alcohol poisoning directly attributed to alcohol based hand sanitizers from the country's leading Pediatric Association
THERE ARE ALCOHOL-FREE HAND SANITIZERS AVAILABLE IN THE MARKET THAT ARE JUST AS EFFECTIVE, IF NOT MORE EFFECTIVE THAN THE LEGACY PRODUCTS when killing MRSA as well as the vast majority of other commonly transmitted germs and bacteria...One product is called Soapopular, and a blog that discusses the various alcohol-free products is www.handhygienefacts.blogspot.com