Keyword: Scott Brinton
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North Bellmore environmental activist Richard Schary was hurrying through the woods behind the Brookside School in North Merrick on Monday morning, dashing from tree to tree in search of graffiti. He had little trouble finding it. Vandals had spray-painted dozens of oak and maple trees along a well-worn path through the forest.
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By Scott Brinton
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4/13/11
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The student, all of 12 or 13 years old, slammed my already broken left hand against the cinder-block wall. Pain shot down my plastered skin. The boy then ran out of the suspension room, pursuing another student with whom he had gotten into a fistfight.
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Scott Brinton
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4/7/11
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In 1971, Stanley Barkan’s daughter, Jacqueline Mia, lay in Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan. Two of her four kidneys — yes, she had four — had to be removed because they had become nephritic, or inflamed, which could have led to a deadly infection. She was 2 years old.
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By Scott Brinton
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3/29/11
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Who knew? New York City sits dead center atop an active earthquake zone. No, not as active as California’s infamous –– and hyperactive –– quake zone. Nonetheless, we have gotten our share of big quakes in the past 300 years.
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Scott Brinton
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3/24/11
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Shaped like a footprint, Mullener Pond abuts the Meadowbrook Parkway amid a stand of oaks and maples just south of Jerusalem Avenue in North Merrick. It is a quiet place, hemmed in by a six-foot …
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By Scott Brinton
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3/15/11
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Self-centered bordering on narcissistic. That’s how I would describe the U.S.’s reaction to the democratic revolution that has swept across the Middle East and North Africa in recent months.
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Scott Brinton
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3/10/11
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On April 19, 1969, members of Cornell University’s Afro-American Society occupied Willard Straight Hall on the Ithaca campus to protest a litany of perceived racial injustices after a cross was burned outside Wari House, a cooperative for African-American female students. During the occupation, AAS members smuggled in rifles and bandoliers of ammunition.
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By Scott Brinton
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3/2/11
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“When do we see average, law-abiding Muslims piecing together their lives in a chaotic world? When do we meet the vast majority of the Middle East’s dense population to understand them, to know them, to feel any sense of sympathy for them?”
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by Scott Brinton
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2/24/11
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On Jan. 18, America Online’s Politics Daily ran a column by poet and essayist Donna Trussell in which she advocated dismantling the U.S. Peace Corps because of its apparent failure to protect female volunteers. “Peace Corps Turns 50 Amid Charges of Rape, Murder and Cover-Up” read the headline.
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by Scott Brinton
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1/27/11
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Merrick singing sensation Robbie Rosen rose to instant national acclaim on Wednesday after his successful “American Idol” audition aired on Fox. Now Merokeans who know Rosen well say they’re hoping to see the well-liked 16-year-old go all the way in the national talent search.
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David Weingrad
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1/21/11
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