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A new organization, Students for Students With Addictions, comprised of seven Lawrence High School students, which will address student drug use, was introduced at the district’s second town hall meeting on Nov. 2.
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ANN E. FRIEDMAN
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11/10/11
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Dr. Zachary Gerut, a practicing aesthetic surgeon in Hewlett for more than 20 years, is one of only two physicians in the U.S. researching the Bella Contour, a non-invasive, fat melting machine that uses dual technologies to diminish a person’s waistline.
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ANN E. FRIEDMAN
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5/5/11
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Despite all the education and the warnings about how drugs — even those that are legally prescribed — can be harmful if abused, young people continue to wander down potentially disastrous paths, according to Kerri Ann Murphy, an Atlantic Beach resident and a registered nurse at the Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow.
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ANN E. FRIEDMAN
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3/9/11
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In his camouflage fatigues and work boots, it’s easy for U.S. Army National Guard Sgt. David You to command respect, but for the past 14 weeks, the respect he has gained has been from Lawrence students, not soldiers.
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JEFF BESSEN
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12/22/10
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Last week, I took part in an insightful panel on Fox Business News on which we focused the debate on government waste. Although I went postal after one of my fellow panelists made rather ignorant remarks, some of the issues we discussed will really blow your mind.
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Al D'Amato
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9/30/10
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Each spring the men poured out of rickety trucks and lived in a barn that smelled of pesticides for the next six months. They seemed always to be joking, but their weatherworn faces told a different story about their lives — one of hardship.
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Scott Brinton
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9/4/10
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Final part in a series.
Why does anyone -- let alone a young person full of life -- start snorting or shooting heroin, an opiate known to cause near-instant addiction and possibly a lifetime of suffering?
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Scott Brinton
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8/17/10
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Part six in a series.
Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice made a name for herself with her tough-as-nails prosecution of drunken drivers. Now, as the use of heroin has spread on Long Island, it's little surprise that the headstrong D.A. is taking a hard line.
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Sari Zeidler and Deirdre Krasula
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6/17/10
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My father served as a union president — a teachers union president — in Suffolk County nearly four decades ago, in the days when educators like him were given little respect, and even lower wages.
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Scott Brinton
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6/3/10
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Part six in a series.
Happening upon this seemingly abandoned lot might leave you with the feeling that you're about to witness a late-night drug deal, but in fact, you would have stumbled on one of the places that heroin dealers and addicts fear most.
It's the heart of the Nassau County Police Department's Heroin Task Force. Much of what happens here is kept under wraps. Police asked that the address be kept confidential. The following is what authorities can share.
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Sari Zeidler and Deirdre Krasula
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6/2/10
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