She stood on the beach last week, pale and shivering, this 61-year-old long-distance swimmer whom some have called the greatest athlete in the world.
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6/21/12
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Have you seen it? The cover of Time magazine last week featured a very attractive 26-year-old mom breast-feeding her 35-year-old son. Actually he’s only 3, but he looks way big.
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5/17/12
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Social progress took a hit this month, especially for women and African-Americans.
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3/29/12
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There are lots of dumb mistakes you can make in politics. Among them are offending some big voting group or saying crude things about the opposition party.
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3/22/12
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The charismatic quartet known as ETHEL performs in Rockville Centre, one of many concerts that welcome thie season this weekend.
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By Karen Bloom
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3/21/12
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More than a dozen local residents gathered outside the district office of State Sen. Jack Martins (R-Mineola) in Garden City Park on Feb. 17 to show their support for a ban on hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” in the extraction of natural gas.
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By Jackie Nash
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2/25/12
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The Pride (19-12, 10-8 Colonial Athletic Association) has a little bit of unfinished business after seeing the 2010-11 season come to an end with a loss to VCU in the second round of the CAA Conference tournament.
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Andrew McClure
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11/25/11
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A number of the women are teachers. One is a speech pathologist. Others are community volunteers, and still others are business leaders. New York State Assemblyman David McDonough honored all of these Bellmore-Merrick “Women of Distinction” at a ceremony at the Merrick Library on Sept. 22.
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Deirdre Krasula
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10/5/11
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Sometimes you don’t need a scientific study to tell you an obvious truth. Last week, a small item in the Science section of The New York Times reported results of a Canadian research project aimed at determining if marital status affects how fast someone gets to the hospital after a heart attack.
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7/28/11
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"Love is the most unnatural thing in the world." Yeah, you heard me. Ok, so I wasn't the one who said that. It was said TO me recently during a lunch with a well, let's call him a more mature, friend (really a mentor) of mine. How much more mature? Well, let's just say he's been married longer than I've been alive and leave it at that.
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By Mitchell Hart Cooper
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3/22/11
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