When Superstorm Sandy rolled across the South Shore on Oct. 29, 2012, it drenched the south Merrick home of Beatrice Brown, now 16, in four and a half feet of saltwater. The storm destroyed her family’s ranch-style house. The Browns lost everything.
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By Scott Brinton
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2/26/14
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For Kennedy High School senior Natalie Giovino, two years’ worth of cancer research boiled down to a few momentary encounters with a handful of doctors and scientists, who came to pick apart her work and test whether it could stand up to professional scrutiny.
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By Scott Brinton
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4/16/13
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In many ways, Calhoun High School senior Elise Meade is your typical teen. The 17-year-old played varsity soccer last fall. She now competes on the varsity badminton team and plays the clarinet in Calhoun’s wind ensemble. On weekends, she referees youth soccer games.
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By Scott Brinton
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4/25/11
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Bilal Siddiqui, who is all of 17, began work on a research project aimed at understanding how cancer cells hijack the body’s own enzymes in order to metastasize, or spread, when he was still a sophomore at Mepham High School last year.
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By Scott Brinton
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4/13/11
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