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Millions of iPhones and BlackBerrys are being used every second, and few adults in Nassau County are without a cell phone of some kind. These devices enable more than phone calls. We can type text messages, read e-mails, connect to the Internet and type Twitter messages and Facebook updates. We can find out where the nearest pizzeria, gas station or hospital is. We can check the weather. We can get a movie review, find the closest theater where that movie is playing and when the next show starts, and then get directions to the theater. All on the phone.
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9/10/09
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A former Australian Vogue cover girl, Liskula Cohen, recently sued Google, calling on the Internet search engine giant to reveal the identity of a blogger who had been anonymously badmouthing her on her blog site, “Skanks in NYC.” Cohen won.
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9/3/09
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Which is worse, the shouting going on at some of the town hall-style meetings that members of Congress are holding on health care reform, or the insults being hurled back at those who object to what they see as an over-reaching government interference in their lives? Citizens are yelling over elected officials trying to explain themselves, and senators and congressional leaders are calling them un-American for doing so.
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9/3/09
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The July 26 deadly crash on the Taconic State Parkway, authorities say, was no accident: Toxicology reports indicated that Diane Schuler, who was driving the wrong way, was drunk and high. On a sunny afternoon, not in the wee hours, when we’re all on guard, she ended her own life, the lives of four children -- one of her own and three of her brother’s -- three adults in another car, and the happiness of so many others.
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9/3/09
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Which is worse, the shouting going on at some of the town hall-style meetings that members of Congress are holding on health care reform, or the insults being hurled back at those who object to what they see as an over-reaching government interference in their lives? Citizens are yelling over elected officials trying to explain themselves, and senators and congressional leaders are calling them un-American for doing so.
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8/26/09
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It looks innocuous enough: a wax-paper packet with a few ounces of white powder inside. But for a growing number of teenagers, the packet promises instant relief from their psychic pain, or, they believe, absolute coolness and widespread acceptance among their peers. What the teens fail to recognize is that the packet is really the devil in disguise and, potentially, an escape route that can — and many times does — lead straight to death’s door.
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8/6/09
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