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Teenagers experiment. Their natural growth demands it. It’s the time of life to explore, test limits and seek fresh experiences. It’s the age when young people try to fit in with others, forming groups of peers for mutual support and socialization.
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2/4/10
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Art Rosenthal, executive director of the Confide Inc. drug treatment center in Rockville Centre, described childhood these days as a dark tunnel. What a depressing metaphor, I thought, but I couldn’t argue with its accuracy.
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Scott Brinton
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2/4/10
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Last week I hopped on an airplane, and from where I was — Sarasota, Fla. — I flew 13 hours to California, a distant planet on the craggy edge of the American continent.
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Randi Kreiss
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2/4/10
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Peter Schmitt, presiding officer of the Nassau County Legislature, got off on the wrong foot this year when he announced a 47 percent pay increase for himself and similar raises for the two other top members of the Legislature.
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Al D'Amato
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2/4/10
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I'm hoping — no, make that praying — that the newest senator from Massachusetts, Republican Scott Brown, will now do what he said he would during last week’s special election — that he will, in fact, be an independent voice for the people of Massachusetts.
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Scott Brinton
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1/29/10
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Unemployment is on the rise in Nassau County, the deficit is up, social services spending is constantly on the block awaiting an ax, taxes are driving everyone crazy ... and the new GOP majority has voted to give its presiding officer, the deputy presiding officer and the minority leader huge raises. Unbelievable.
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1/29/10
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In one early visit to the U.S., Albert Einstein, perhaps the greatest scientist in history, was subjected to a very public pop quiz devised by none other than American inventor Thomas Edison, according to author Walter Isaacson in “Einstein: His Life and Universe.”
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1/29/10
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We’ve all heard about the US Airways flight that was diverted to Philadelphia last week because a flight attendant became suspicious — let’s make that alarmed — by a 17-year-old boy who was praying.
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Randi Kreiss
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1/29/10
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Last week, the biggest loser wasn’t Massachusetts Senate candidate Martha Coakley or the Democratic Party or President Obama. The biggest losers were New York schoolchildren, who were sold out by the state Legislature in favor of the tremendously powerful teachers unions.
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Al D'Amato
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1/29/10
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This is in response to a letter from Richard Creeron regarding school consolidation (“Why won’t school boards consider consolidation?” Nov. 19-25). I was waiting for a response and never saw one.
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1/27/10
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