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Missing time capsule has former students feeling blue

It was May 17, 1981, and Larry Smith was 11. Rubik's Cube was a newfangled toy. The Smurfs were all the rage. And the students of Berry Hill Elementary School in Syosset buried a time capsule.

There was a ceremony, with grown-ups telling the children that in 25 years, they would return and unearth the trinkets of their youth.

As 2006 approached, the students, now themselves grown,...

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