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Last week, the Nassau BOCES board of directors told a room packed with several hundred concerned parents and students that it would delay a decision to close the Long Island High School for the Arts and the Doshi Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Institute, two specialty schools attended by both Nassau and Suffolk county students.
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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11/25/15
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The drug addicts’ brain scans that Dr. Stephen Dewey takes appear in psychedelic shades of red, yellow, green and blue, each indicating a level of brain activity — or inactivity. Red means excited. Blue is dormant.
Dewey is the laboratory director for behavioral and molecular neuro-imaging at the North Shore-LIJ Feinstein Institute for Medical Research. In that capacity, he’s put hundreds of addicts’ brains to the test — the positron emission tomography test, that is — seeking to understand precisely what happens to the mind when a pot smoker lights up or a heroin junkie shoots up.
And, he has found, it isn’t pretty.
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By Scott Brinton
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11/11/15
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The Meadowbrook Alternative Program, which the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District offers as an alternative to the mainstream, is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year.
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By Stephany Reyes
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10/21/15
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Like many high school seniors across the country, Catherine Sweeney is busy getting ready to send out college applications. First choice for the Baldwin High School senior is the University of …
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By Adrienne Lyons
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10/1/15
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Students need to think before they post anything to social media. And if they see or hear anything objectionable from others, they should object themselves.
That was the message at Baldwin High …
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By Adrienne Lyons
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9/24/15
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Dr. Scott Goldstein hopes this weekend is an uneventful one for him when Pope Francis visits Philadelphia on Saturday, the final leg of his highly anticipated and historic trip to the U.S., preceded by stops in Washington and New York City.
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By David Weingrad
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9/23/15
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For Chinira Lovick, it’s all about staying confident.
That confidence propelled the 18-year-old to a win in the women’s 1,500 meters at the 2015 AAU Junior Olympic Games at Norfolk …
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By Adrienne Lyons
alyons@liherald.com
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8/27/15
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A Baldwin Senior High School graduate has been awarded a prestigious scholarship from the State University of New York College at Oswego.
Conor Broderick received the Presidential Scholarship. The …
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8/20/15
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In April 2014, two students at St. Anthony’s High School, in South Huntington, brought a Confederate flag to a sporting event. They were subsequently expelled. Later that month, Newsday published an editorial . . .
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7/29/15
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l celebrate its 50th Anniversary the weekend of Sept. 11-13.
The class was an important one (many think they are but ’65 truly was). The class kept growing from kindergarten through their …
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By the class of 1965
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7/22/15
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