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By Katia Hetter Special to the Atlanta Journal Constitution Traci Barnes took yoga classes for years, trying to find one that didn’t make her feel like an outsider because of her curvy figure. The other students seemed so skinny and wore tight yoga clothes that showed off their figures and flexibility. When the Sandy Springs [...] Enforcing Fairness, Federal Compliance Agency Draws Flak From Business By Katia Hetter, Newsday Staff Writer Texaco Inc. paid $ 3.1 million to settle claims of pay discrimination. The Boeing Co. settled similar claims for $ 4.5 million. CFS Bank of Westbury settled for $ 180,000. In all three cases, individual employees did not file complaints of discrimination. [...] By Katia Hetter, Newsday Staff Writer NOT SO LONG ago, Wall Street financiers and dot-com creators ruled Manhattan, while ironworkers and other construction workers were often portrayed as lazy, overpaid union members. On Sept. 11, everything changed. As Gotham’s white-collar residents watched helplessly, blue-collar men and women used their skills to tackle the rubble of the World [...] By Katia Hetter, Newsday Staff Writer Hundreds of people flocked to the Winter Garden last night to see the newest collection of plans for the World Trade Center site, in an impromptu opening before today’s official public display of the exhibition featuring nine designs. Commuters on their way to the subway stopped to peruse and ponder [...] By Katia Hetter, Newsday Staff Writer Remembering sunny days spent playing with her two children outside the World Trade Center, Vivian Hung hopes those in charge of reconstruction will listen to the opinions of all of lower Manhattan. Hung, who emigrated from China’s Canton province in 1991, said through an interpreter that she worries about the impact [...] Critics: Public had little say on transportation projects By Katia Hetter, Newsday Staff Writer The selection last week of architect Daniel Libeskind’s design for the World Trade Center site capped an intensely public process, marked by large meetings, passionate debates by everyone from scholars to schoolchildren, and thousands of comments from ordinary New Yorkers. Despite that civic outpouring, [...] By Katia Hetter, San Francisco Chronicle Staff Writer Though San Francisco’s days as an industrial center are gone, at least one product made here still has an international reputation — Anchor Steam Beer. But now top city planners want to allow housing to be built directly alongside Anchor Brewing Co.’s small manufacturing complex on the slope of [...] San Francisco Chronicle Sunday magazine By Katia Hetter I’ve been trying to figure out where to spend Sept. 11 this year. As I rode the train to work on a recent morning, my mind wandered to the previous anniversaries of those terrorist attacks, and I let myself remember. For the past two years, I’ve attended services at Riverside Church [...] Quincy, Wash: Cave B Inn at SageCliffe The New York Times By Katia Hetter THE BASICS The Cave B Inn at SageCliffe in Eastern Washington’s wine country, which opened in April, is the latest project of Dr. Vince Bryan, a retired neurosurgeon, and his wife, Carol. The inn is nestled in their 130-acre vineyard above the Columbia River, [...] The New York Times By KATIA HETTER The violinist Elmar Oliveira and several members of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra are regular visitors to a little storefront string store in Decatur, Ga., where for nearly half a century both the professional and the beginner have purchased their string instruments and gotten repairs. Among the 1,500 string instruments in [...] |
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