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Pew: Almost half of Americans want to live somewhere elseHaya El Nasser USA Today 01/29/2009 | Winter storm disrupts high school Regents examsSTACEY ALTHERR Newsday 01/29/2009 |
 Living in Las Vegas appeals more to men than women. Affluent adults are twice as likely as poorer folks to want to live in Boston. Young people like big cities such as New York and Los Angeles. More Americans would rather live in a place with more McDonald's than one with more Starbucks. |  Yesterday's weather-delayed school openings and a few all-day closures disrupted some midyear high school Regents exams, which will now have to be taken in May or June. |
Blizzard paralyzes North Dakota, heads east The Boston Globe 01/13/2009 | Retired but staying in town: Seniors decide New York City offers best quality of lifeLORE CROGHAN New York Daily News 01/12/2009 |
 BISMARCK, N.D. - A fast-moving blizzard brought snow and high winds to North Dakota yesterday, closing schools and causing more headaches for residents still trying to dig out from a record snowfall last month. |  When New Yorkers Helene and Joe Kirschner were picking a place to retire, they checked out Research Triangle in North Carolina and towns in Connecticut and Massachusetts because they thought there’d be a good quality of life if they lived near a university. |
China offers quake relief aid to Costa RicaLu Yanan Xinhua 01/11/2009 | Colin Powell Announces President-Elect Obama's Call to National ServiceSandy Scott eMilitary.org 01/10/2009 |
 The Chinese government would provide 100,000 U.S. dollars to Costa Rica in emergency quake relief aid, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said Monday. |  At a packed news conference here today, General Colin Powell, USA (Ret) and the Presidential Inaugural Committee announced President-elect Obama’s plans to call on Americans to serve their communities on the King Holiday and throughout the year. |
New York's WIC program promotes healthier foodsDELTHIA RICKS Newsday 01/09/2009 | New Seattle phone line helps immigrant victims of domestic violenceEmily Heffter The Seattle Times 01/08/2009 |
 New York's newly revamped menu of choices for its version of the national nutrition program for low-income women and children is such a refreshing change that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is advising other states to follow its model. |  Seattle is the first city in the nation to set up a toll-free number to connect immigrant and refugee domestic-violence victims to a social worker of their language and culture. |
Eloping to Vegas? Why Not Lower Manhattan?FERNANDA SANTOS The New York Times 01/07/2009 | Study: Teenage 'virginity pledges' are ineffectiveRob Stein MSNBC 12/30/2008 |
 Someone plopped an iPod into a docking station and strains of Vivaldi filled the room as the couple strode in — she in a white minidress and peep-toe shoes; he in black slacks, maroon shirt and an ivory rose clipped to his collar. “This place is really lavish,” said the bride, Jennifer Avila, 22, taking in the chandeliers, bronze counters and shiny marble columns. “It’s really romantic to me,” said the groom, Carlos Sanchez, 27. |  Teenagers who pledge to remain virgins until marriage are just as likely to have premarital sex as those who do not promise abstinence and are significantly less likely to use condoms and other forms of birth control when they do, according to a study released today. |
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