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I rounded the corner into Levy-Lakeside Elementary School in Merrick on April 29, sweating and panting, and I heard my wife shouting my name in the distance. I ran to Katerina’s voice.
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5/10/12
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I swore to myself that I wouldn’t do it. For the five days that I was recently on vacation in St. Augustine, Fla., I wouldn’t read a newspaper or magazine, website or blog, watch a TV news show, listen to news radio, check my Facebook page or even read a book remotely related to current events.
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4/26/12
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To the Editor:
I recently read in –– where else? –– the Merrick and Bellmore Heralds that Senior Editor Scott Brinton took home first place for Best Column in the New York Press Association’s annual clips contest, as well as third place for column writing in the Local Media Association’s clips competition. I would like to offer my congratulations for these prestigious honors.
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4/13/12
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Eight Hofstra University graduate journalism students in Adjunct Professor Scott Brinton’s Issues in Science Reporting class grabbed rubber gloves and oversized garbage bags and headed by boat on March 24 to the archipelago of tiny islands and mudflats south of Bay County Park in East Rockaway to join in and report on a massive cleanup of the wetlands.
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4/5/12
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I love that Apple Chairman Steve Jobs said that one of the most important classes he took at Reed College in Oregon, from which he dropped out in 1972, was calligraphy.
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3/29/12
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Last Wednesday morning, I was a mile and half into a 3.1-mile run through south Merrick, where I live, when I was overcome by a side stitch that emanated from the right side of my abdomen and wrapped around my torso to my back.
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3/15/12
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I love Paul Krugman. He’s a data-driven economist who speaks his mind. In his New York Times op-ed column, he has bashed the economic policies of both Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. And when Krugman writes, presidents read.
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3/1/12
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At 1 a.m. on a recent Wednesday, I was abruptly awakened by a pain that ripped across the lower left side of my back, as if I had been stabbed with a jagged-edged knife.
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