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Last March, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake rattled the Pacific Ocean, unleashing a tsunami that inundated coastal areas of Japan.
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2/23/12
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In its centennial year, The Woodmere Club on Meadow Drive has an added reason to celebrate as the Metropolitan Golf Writers Association named it “Club of the Year” on Feb. 7.
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ANN E. FRIEDMAN
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2/16/12
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Around 10:05 on Feb. 16, wires of a crane lifting a steel beam off a flatbed truck at the World Trade Center site snapped, causing the beam to fall about 40 stories and crush the truck.
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Lee Landor
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2/16/12
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A motorist traveling north on Branch Boulevard lost control of his Toyota Tacoma pick up truck and struck two utility poles and a tree at the intersection by University Street on Jan. 6 at 3:45 p.m., Nassau County police and Woodmere Fire Department officials said.
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JEFF BESSEN
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1/9/12
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Italian physicist Enrico Fermi fired up the world’s first nuclear reactor on Dec. 2, 1942, in a squash court beneath Alonzo Stagg Field at the University of Chicago. Fermi achieved what scientists call “criticality” –– a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction –– at 3:52 p.m. His graphite-pile reactor, dubbed Chicago Pile-One, ran for 28 minutes and produced enough energy to power a flashlight.
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10/20/11
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Millions of people throughout the region experienced the inconvenience of losing power and the feeling of sitting in the dark for hours and days during and after Tropical Storm Irene. We all assume now and forever that we just have to flip the light switch and on go the lights. Bad assumption.
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9/29/11
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I remember when the real estate agent first took my wife and me to what would become our home in south Merrick nine years ago. We pulled up across the street from the quaint split-level, with white shingles and an aging gray roof. We instantly fell in love.
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9/9/11
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Emergency responders and public officials deserve credit for getting way out in front of last month’s devastating hurricane.
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9/9/11
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There was widespread damage to the beach clubs in Atlantic Beach, the county’s evacuation order made life difficult for Lawrence residents observing Shabbos, and flooded roads and downed power lines throughout the Five Towns made driving hazardous.
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JEFF BESSEN and ANDREW HACKMACK
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9/1/11
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The Long Island Power Authority’s chief operating officer, Michael Hervey, toured storm-ravaged parts of south Merrick with Nassau County Legislator David Denenberg on Wednesday to reassure frustrated homeowners that power would be restored to their homes.
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By Scott Brinton
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8/31/11
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