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World leaders — and a throng of environmentalists and reporters — descended on Copenhagen last week for the 2009 Climate Conference convened by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. And what a raucous show it was, with 1,000 black-masked “protesters” getting arrested after hurling bricks through windows and battling police.
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Scott Brinton
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12/17/09
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In 1992, at the end of my second term in the Senate, I was approached by several courageous women from Long Island. They sat me down in my Senate conference room and brought to my attention that Long Island was producing higher-than-average rates of breast cancer.
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Al D'Amato
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12/17/09
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One of the more recent controversies raging in education is whether and how to extend the school day and even the school year.
Most children spend about six hours a day in class. There are proposals to lengthen that time anywhere from an hour to two or more. One variation involves weekend school, particularly for those students who have fallen behind in their studies.
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Steve Kussin
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12/15/09
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It is at last official: Republican Ed Mangano of Bethpage, a 14-year Nassau County legislator, is our new county executive, having defeated two-term Executive Tom Suozzi by the slimmest of margins.
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12/10/09
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In recent months, critics of the Obama administration have lambasted the president’s $787 billion stimulus plan, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, passed in February. Sure, they say, the stock market is soaring and the real-estate market is steadily climbing. But America is still shedding jobs. Ergo, the stimulus must have failed.
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Scott Brinton
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12/10/09
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I listened carefully to the president’s speech at West Point last Tuesday evening and watched, closely, too, to read his mood and body language. Standing before an audience of cadets, he said he would order some 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan.
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Randi Kreiss
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12/10/09
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President Obama has made a decision regarding the future of our country’s involvement in Afghanistan. Drum roll, please. We’ve all been waiting on the edge of our seats.
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Al D'Amato
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12/10/09
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Thanksgiving has passed, but the time to give has not.
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12/3/09
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Vaccinations for the H1N1 influenza virus are available, and we encourage anyone who is among those deemed at highest risk of contracting the disease to get the shot.
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12/3/09
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It’s a truism of politics: In times of economic collapse, hard-liners seek scapegoats to blame rather than bipartisan solutions to offer hope.
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Scott Brinton
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12/3/09
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