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Thousands of runners from all over the world will descend on the east end of Staten Island at the starting line of the TCS New York City Marathon on Sunday. Among the masses will be Team Mission United, a group of runners participating in support of local veterans and military families. Joining the seven-person squad this year is Merrick native Daniel Bornstein. more
Editor’s note: Bornstein is a former Kennedy High School Herald student columnist who is now studying at Dartmouth College. He is from Merrick. KANIFING, The Gambia—The other day on Al Jazeera a movie director was talking about why he left his luxurious California home for a much simpler lifestyle. Convinced of the limits of using his wealth to value his self-worth, he has now sought personal contentment in building relationships with other people. “I feel richer now,” he remarked. more
Editor’s note: Daniel Bornstein, a former student columnist for the Bellmore and Merrick Heralds, is now a sophomore at Dartmouth College. An Intel Science Talent Search semifinalist, and salutatorian of his class at Kennedy, Bornstein is now conducting research at the World Agroforestry Center in Kenya. He wrote this column about his experiences there. more
Eliminating global hunger is a daunting, seemingly insurmountable task that will require the joint efforts of countless people and organizations around the world to coordinate and organize and fight together. In the midst of this effort is Merrick native Daniel Bornstein, who considers himself a hybrid –– simultaneously a scholar and an activist. more
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Though President Obama spent much of his election campaign denouncing George Bush, there was one area where he pledged to follow the example set by his predecessor: funding efforts to counteract global AIDS. more
After two years, I have reached the end of my days as a Herald student columnist. I will graduate Kennedy High School on Sunday. More than anything, I hope my columns have urged the Bellmore-Merrick community to think differently about world issues. With so many formidable challenges facing us today, there might be a tendency to grow pessimistic and hopeless. But what I've tried to do is showcase the impressive efforts of different organizations-especially youth-so that my readers see plenty of reason for optimism. more
Ninety of Long Island's top science and mathematics students recently convened at SUNY Stony Brook's Charles B. Wang Center to compete in the prestigious Long Island Junior Science and Humanities Symposium, and in the crowd were five -- count 'em, five -- young Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District researchers, all seniors -- four from Kennedy High School and one from Calhoun. more
Editor's note: Bornstein is a Herald student columnist from Kennedy High School, which has students from Bellmore and Merrick. In the near future, we'll hear about the successful summits not of world leaders but of young citizen activists. That's the outcome I see as inevitable after learning about the One Young World gathering in London in February. more
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