The number of foreign correspondents has plummeted in the past 10 years, and most overseas news bureaus have either shrunk or shuttered their offices.
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9/11/14
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I can’t explain precisely how I determined which college I would attend. The process was more art than science.
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8/6/14
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In July 2012 we called on our government leaders to come up with a management plan for Long Island’s rapidly diminishing — and increasingly polluted –– water supply.
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7/23/14
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Poverty is hard to define, I learned during a “Covering Suburban Poverty” conference sponsored by the Hofstra University Herbert School of Communications and the Poynter Institute last Sept. 26 and 27.
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By Scott Brinton, Senior Editor
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2/12/14
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The very word “French” has its connotations, of cancans and certain kinds of kisses and naughty movies, not to mention postcards.
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9/26/13
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Four of the twelve hospitals in Nassau County were named this week to the prestigious “New York’s Best Hospitals” list compiled by U.S. News & World Report magazine.
The four that made the …
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By Howard Schwach
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7/23/13
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Is it spying when the National Security Agency listens to your phone calls and reads your text messages?
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6/20/13
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I was standing atop a mound of dried reed grass, piled high inside a circle of scrub brush, plucking up plastic pens and aluminum cans and depositing them in a big black garbage bag, when the ground beneath my feet suddenly gave way.
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By Scott Brinton
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4/4/13
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Seeking informationFifth Squad detectives are asking for information about an incident that occurred last week in which an unknown man chased a young Lakeview girl.
As the 9-year-old girl exited a …
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3/7/12
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Police seek info about W.H. bank robbery
Robbery Squad detectives are investigating a West Hempstead bank robbery in which a a tall middle-aged black man on Thursday, Jan. 12, around 5:10 p.m., …
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1/18/12
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