Sept. 11 anniversary calls for peace, not divisiveness
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It has been nine years since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and ground zero still sits fallow, like a scarred-over knife wound in the heart of downtown Manhattan.
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Among the many temporary casualties of Hurricane Sandy was Long Island’s educational system, with most schools shutting down for a week or longer.
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The continuing squabble between the financially strapped Long Beach Medical Center and the New York State Department of Health comes at the expense of the safety of barrier island residents.
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“When the terrorists attacked, Bob suited up. And, like so many brave first responders, raced toward the danger to save and search for others.”
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2/16/24
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Nearly one in every eight women will develop breast cancer in their lifetimes. This year, according to the American Cancer Society . . .
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10/19/23
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Hamas’s Saturday-morning assault on Israel was more than just a shocking demonstration of barbarism. The toll of Israeli dead and wounded — not to mention those kidnapped and taken to the Gaza Strip by these murderers — is sickening.
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10/12/23
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Fire — a human invention that ignited a different way of preparing food nearly 400,000 years ago — is a tool that very much remains in need of control, whether it’s the size of flames in a fire pit or the temperature setting on a kitchen stove.
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11/20/23
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“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance,” President James Madison once said. “And a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
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3/15/24
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There’s an invisible lifeline across Long Island that sustains us all — our aquifer system. These underground reservoirs — the source of every drop of water that flows from our taps . . .
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12/7/23
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We had never seen a tempest the likes of Hurricane Sandy before, one so mammoth, so fierce, that it wiped out whole shoreline communities while leaving much of the rest of the Northeast in tatters, …
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10/30/14
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