Brainy Bronx Teens Win Trip to Nobel Prize Festivities in Sweden
Winners of The Laureates of Tomorrow – Nobel Essay Contest attend the world’s most exclusive prize ceremony
NEW YORK, NY (January 2, 2008) — Three New York City high school juniors were among those celebrating with the winners of the Nobel Prizes at the December awards ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden.
Seventeen-year-old Mingzhu Li of the High School of American Studies at Lehman College, Melanie Plaza of Bronx High School of Science, and William Rifkin of Horace Mann School enjoyed an all-expenses-paid trip to the Nobel Prize festivities as winners of The Laureates of Tomorrow – Nobel Essay Contest, now in its final year. The grand prize winners were announced at a June ceremony held at the Nobel Monument at Theodore Roosevelt Park in Manhattan.
Park The Cash Here .. Sure We’ll Build The Yanks’ Lot
The group that received $237 million in city-sponsored bonds to build garages and parking lots at the new Yankee Stadium is hardly an all-star of public financing.
Bronx Parking Development LLC lists as its “sole member” the nonprofit group Community Initiatives Development Corp., which defaulted on two previous tax-exempt bonds in the past 10 years, records show.
A string of eight violent incidents across the city during the early hours of the new year yesterday, including three shootings involving police officers, make it clear police have a difficult task ahead in 2008 as they try cut the number of homicides from last year’s 494, the low point since reliable records have been kept.
The first recorded shots of 2008 were aimed at police officers. Before an hour had passed, bullets whizzed toward police in three separate shootings in the Bronx and Manhattan, hitting two marked police cars but leaving officers unscathed. Officers fired back one time, hitting a man in the buttocks.
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