In January 2006, Medicare Part D went into effect, subsidizing the cost of prescription drugs for the elderly.
The federal government touts the program as an effective way to offer senior citizens choice and flexibility. But many seniors, including those at the Elmhurst-Jackson Heights Senior Center, say that Part D has left them confused and frustrated.
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Flowers, fruit, clothes and jewelry — along with thousands of worshipers — flooded America’s oldest Hindu temple to celebrate Shivratri.
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Harry Houdini escaped from handcuffs, straitjackets and water-filled oversized milk cans - but the one thing he could never get away from was publicity.
Larry Sloman and William Kalush, authors of “The Secret Life of Houdini,” theorize that the magician was fatally poisoned by a vengeful clairvoyant on Halloween of 1926, and not felled by a ruptured appendix as long believed.
They want Houdini unearthed from his grave at in Ridgewood so tests can be performed.
