Another year, another damning report for American medicine. In August, the Commonwealth Fund ranked US health care last among 11 of the world’s wealthiest nations (the seventh time in seven reports since 2004). Compared to its global counterparts, the United States has the lowest life expectancy, the highest infant andRead More →
Getty While most people keep their eyes on the ball during the World Series, at GTC we keep our eyes on the jewelry. Specifically, Atlanta Braves outfielder Joc Pederson’s pearl necklace. Chain necklaces are almost as de rigueur as the baseball uniform itself, but this is the first time pearlsRead More →
Jetty Swart never intended to be a musician. But when the self-proclaimed “introvert” arrived in New York for a graphic design internship in the early ’90s, her need to connect tipped her path in a totally unexpected direction. “I didn’t know anyone, but I had this accordion.” Shy with foreigners,Read More →
Ari Pearl, founder and CEO of PPG Development; Jonathan Leifer, Director, L3C Capital Partners; The Altair, 9540 West Bay Harbor Drive (The Port of Altair Bay, L3C Capital Partners, PPG Development, iStock) Developers Ari Pearl and Jonathan Leifer have sold more than half the units of their converted Bay HarborRead More →
The 80th anniversary of National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day — a major milestone in history and for its dwindling survivors who are now about a century old — will be held at Pearl Harbor on Kilo Pier with the relentlessness of COVID-19 still concerning. The sighting organized by the NationalRead More →
Pearl Lily Kessler was born August 29, 1917 in Manhattan and grew up in Brooklyn. Her parents were Jewish immigrants from Europe: her father, Harry, was an Austrian tailor, and her mother, Yetta (Feigenbaum) Kessler, left Poland when she was 2 years old. In 1938, Pearl was working in theRead More →