Milton Glaser would be so proud. The designer of the "I ♥ NY" logo has had his work on bumper stickers and t-shirts, but now the ♥ symbol at the center of it has made its way into the Oxford English Dictionary. According to the Daily Mail, the ♥ symbol will be found will be found alongside the word "heart" and listed as a verb, meaning "to love." more ›

Has Santeria moved to the suburbs? After a spate of strange animal body parts turning up in Prospect Park this year, including a goat's head, one reader stumbled upon an animal's heart within a chalk heart outline in Glenwood Lake in New Rochelle yesterday. According to local police, this isn't the first animal part to be found around Westchester parks this year: a goat who had been sexually assaulted was discovered in Yonkers and a beheaded sheep was found in Ward Acres in New Rochelle. Police believe this heart was a turkey's heart, and are unsure whether it was college kids playing a joke or part of this recent streak of ritualistic animal killings. more ›

You still can't smoke or litter on the subway, but now you can be in love, or find love, or give love, or target love? So long as it's not the kind your mother warned you about, or this kind. more ›

Former vice president Dick Cheney was hospitalized with chest pains at George Washington Hospital in Washington D.C. The AP reports, "Cheney assistant Peter Long issued a statement that the 69-year-old Cheney was resting comfortably and his doctors were evaluating the situation." Cheney has had four heart attacks, including a quadruple bypass surgery, and he was given a pacemaker in 2001. The former vice president has been busy lately, blasting the Obama administration about the terror trials and appearing at the CPAC meeting while defending Bush administration decisions. more ›

Former president Bill Clinton has a lot of admirable qualities—his charisma, his intelligence, his saxophone... his role in facilitating CIA gun and cocaine smuggling into Arkansas (says Penthouse!). But after dodging a heart attack last week, Bubba has made his first remarks to the media, and used the opportunity to warn the youth of America not to emulate his unhealthy eating habits. more ›

Haitian earthquake survivors, ambitious young interns, Harlem restaurateurs, and centrist Democrats can all breathe easy this morning: William Jefferson Clinton, America's first black president, was released from the hospital this morning after a successful procedure to clear a blocked artery. "He's out of the hospital and in the car back enroute to his home,'' former DNC chairman Terry McAuliffe told CBS this morning. "And if I know President Clinton, he'll be on the phone ... calling people asking for more help for Haiti and where he can get pickup trucks so they can deliver food or generators. If I know Bill Clinton, he'll be raring to go in about 35 minutes.'' Chappaqua, lock up your daughters, Bubba's back in the saddle! more ›

ABC News is reporting that former President Bill Clinton has been hospitalized in NYC. Clinton, 63, was reportedly rushed to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan "for a condition related to his heart." ABC News' chief political correspondent George Stephanopoulos hears that he was taken to the hospital "likely for a stent procedure." (A stent is small mesh tube that is used to treat narrowed or weakened arteries; Clinton previously had heart surgery in 2004. ) more ›

The husband of a Queens woman who was killed and mutilated said police didn't do enough to protect his wife from a stalker who had harassed her for years. "Whatever happened before the murder, they could have handled better," said Yung Wei Guo, whose wife, Qian Wu, was found Tuesday stabbed, bludgeoned, and missing her heart and lungs. Police have arrested Huang Chen, who reportedly started threatening and intimidating Wu after he tried to find work through her employment agency, and after she turned down his romantic advances. more ›

Hey, whaddaya know—shooting 5,000 volts of electricity at somebody's chest could adversely affect the heart! Manufacturer Taser International Inc. has issued a warning about Taser chest-shots, suggesting that law enforcement officers aim their Tasers at perpetrators' backs, arms, or abdomens. In response to the warning, the NYPD brass has formally ordered officers not to shoot Tasers at suspects' chests. more ›

You've only got one more day to find a valentine, and Steph Goralnick just made it much easier! She says she designed a set of valentine cards to sell "but then decided that since the economy is in a state of such deep suckage I would spread a little sweetness and give them all away for free." Originally 22 packets were scattered about Williamsburg, but they're quickly being picked up. Here's a heart-shaped map to help you find what's left: more ›

It turns out that you can buy duck hearts at Ottomanelli's Meat Market (285 Bleecker Street) in 5 pound bags for something like $3-4 a pound. Just order a bag and in a few days you will have an abundance of duck hearts to play with! Thaw them just enough to separate them into ziplock bags with maybe 1/2 pound duck hearts in each, label the bags with the date and contents, and freeze whatever you don't cook immediately. more ›