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Kennedy High senior Rebecca Jellinek, who played the lead in the school play, “Twelfth Night,” in mid-November, set up a mini-office backstage when she was rehearsing for the play, furiously tapping away at her laptop whenever her presence wasn’t required onstage.
In addition to prepping for her performance in this modern version of the Shakespearean classic, Jellinek was also writing her senior science research thesis for submission to the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search.
The paper was due Nov. 13. Opening night was Nov. 15.
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By Scott Brinton
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1/9/14
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The clarion call has grown louder since Superstorm Sandy: We must beat a “managed” retreat from the coast, or face certain peril as global warming takes hold and sea levels rise.
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1/9/14
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Why would people in their right minds confess to crimes they did not commit? Falsely confessing to misdeeds as horrible as murder seems implausible, impossible even. But, according to research conducted by one Kennedy High School senior, it happens more often than you might think.
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By Scott Brinton
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12/18/13
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Halloween hijinks reach a crescendo this weekend. Whether you want to step back in time to celebrate Halloween the way Long Islanders did over 120 years ago, at Old Bethpage Village Restoration, stop by Molloy College’s Madison Theatre for its Halloween Fun Fest or find some other scary doings nearby, Halloween lovers of all ages can partake of scary and not-so-scary thrills and chills.
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By Karen Bloom
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10/23/13
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Exhibits and more...
After ModernisM 2013: ‘AM’A showcase of work by five contemporary artists. The exhibit features Nina Chanel Abney, Justin Craun, Wendell Gladstone, Erik Parks and …
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9/18/13
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The Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District Board of Education is considering a $47.8 million bond proposal to fund new science laboratories, bathrooms, athletic fields and a host of repairs, from masonry and roof work to asbestos abatement and upgrades to art rooms and gymnasiums.
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By Scott Brinton
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8/28/13
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Kennedy High School junior Rebecca Jellinek, 16, of Bellmore, recently took Highest Honors at the New York State Science Congress, earning first place in the Biological and Behavioral Science Division at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Suffolk County.
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By Scott Brinton
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6/19/13
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Last Oct. 29, Hurricane Sandy drowned the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant in East Rockaway with more than nine feet of saltwater, destroying its pumps, shutting down its operating systems and overwhelming the already weak facility.
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6/6/13
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The Barbie doll, long lambasted as a caricature of the modern woman — impossibly thin, vacuous, at times scantily dressed — may be good for girls’ diets.
That was the surprising finding of a science research project conducted over the past year by Rebecca Jellinek, 16, a junior at Kennedy High School in Bellmore. Jellinek questioned 104 local girls, ages 6 to 8, about their food preferences after they played with one of two dolls — Barbie or Tracy Turnblad, the “full-figured” leading character in the movie musical “Hairspray.”
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By Scott Brinton
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6/5/13
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There is a common thread that runs through the science research projects of Calhoun High School seniors Brigid Maloney and Christian Tucci, both of whom recently made the finals of the prestigious Long Island Science and Engineering Fair –– water.
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By Scott Brinton
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5/30/13
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