575 Madison Avenue, NYC

575 Madison Avenue, NYC

Best Stretches for Office Workers

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By Paige Waehner Exercise Expert      Sitting in front of a desk every day can wreak havoc on your body, especially since most of us don’t have the best posture. Hunching the shoulders and slumping in your seat can cause back pain, headaches, tension and tightness in your back, neck and shoulders. The following […]

Apple Watch Review: Bliss, but Only After a Steep Learning Curve

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By Farhad Manjoo It took three days — three long, often confusing and frustrating days — for me to fall for the Apple Watch. But once I fell, I fell hard. First there was a day to learn the device’s initially complex user interface. Then another to determine how it could best fit it into my […]

Inside New York’s $95 Million Penthouse: 432 Park Avenue

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By Alicia Adamczky The buzz has been building for years, and now it’s official: 432 Park Avenue, located between 56th and 57th street, is the tallest residential tower in the Western Hemisphere. With topping complete at 1,396 feet and the last of the concrete finally poured three years after the start of construction, it surpasses the Empire […]

Exclusive Star Wars: The Digital Movie Collection Clip

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The entire Star Wars saga – minus the Ewok movies and the Holiday Special (obviously) – are finally coming to Digital HD in Star Wars: The Digital Movie Collection. The six official films in the blockbuster franchise are all en route, and since the hardcore fans of Star Wars (read: all of them) have seen every single movie dozens […]

At Aetna, a C.E.O.’s Management by Mantra

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By DAVID GELLES On a recent wintry afternoon, Mark T. Bertolini, the 58-year-old chief executive of Aetna, the health insurer, was sitting in his Hartford office wearing a dark suit and a crisp, white, French-cuffed shirt. But instead of a necktie, he wore a shiny metal amulet engraved with the Sanskrit characters “sohum.” Roughly translated, sohum […]

The 10 Mistakes Everyone Makes When Working From Home

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Meghan Casserly Forbes Staff When your commute is as short as your bedroom to your living room, a lot of workplace anxieties go out the window: water-cooler conversations, intra-office workout competitions…whether you’ve worn the same pair of jeans for six days straight. But whether you’re a full-time telecommuter or simply “working from home” for the day, […]

History of April Fool’s Day

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On this day in 1700, English pranksters begin popularizing the annual tradition of April Fools’ Day by playing practical jokes on each other. Although the day, also called All Fools’ Day, has been celebrated for several centuries by different cultures, its exact origins remain a mystery. Some historians speculate that April Fools’ Day dates back […]

Exclusive: Cablevision to make $1 offer for New York Daily News

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BY LIANA B. BAKER (Reuters) – U.S. cable T.V. operator Cablevision Systems Corp (CVC.N) is planning to make an offer for the New York Daily News as early as this week, valuing the troubled tabloid at just $1, according to a person familiar with the matter. The offer would come one month after New York […]