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New York is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States, and is the country's third most populous state.
New York is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States, and is the country's third most populous state.
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Senate split: Paterson's end game
Spin CycleTrying to figure out Gov. David Paterson???s end game has become an Albany pastime. But in this crisis it seems clear he is determined to push the month-long, first-of-its kind state Senate deadlock toward a resolution in court. And......Tags: Parliament, David Paterson, National Government, Eliot Spitzer, Constitutional Issues
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Airline exclusively for pets makes debut in Colorado
The Associated PressIf you think airlines are going to the dogs -- you're right. A new airline is starting up in Colorado just for dogs and cats. Pet Airways will start offering flights across the country next week, including flights to New York, Chicago, Baltimore/...Tags: Pets and Pet Supplies, Pets, Colorado
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At swine flu summit, school nurse touts cell phone use
delthia.ricks@newsday.comBETHESDA, Md. - Cell phones, the bane of many a school administrator, turned out to be essential tools as swine flu ripped through St. Francis Preparatory School in Fresh Meadows, Queens, last spring. That's according to St. Francis school nurse Mary...Tags: National Institutes of Health, Medical Staff, Health Organizations, Swine Flu, St. Francis Preparatory School
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Obese children's hospital stays double over 6 years
Bloomberg NewsThe number of children diagnosed with obesity who were hospitalized in the United States doubled from 1999 to 2005, driving up health care costs, a study found. Hospitalizations of obese children ages 2 to 19 increased to 42,429 from 21,743, according to...Tags: Mount Sinai, Health Organizations, Private Health Care, Medicines, Medical Specialization
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OPINION: Will there always be another fish in the sea?
Carl Safina, a MacArthur fellow who lives in Setauket, is the president of Blue Ocean Institute. His most recent book is "Voyage of the Turtle." I grew up along the shores of Long Island and have wonderful childhood memories of standing in the shallow...Tags: National Government, Aquaculture, Long Island, Seafood and Fishing Industry, Renovation
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OPINION: Fishers are victims; stop blaming them
Nancy Solomon, a cultural ethnographer documenting Long Island's recreational and commercial fishers, is executive director of Long Island Traditions. This past spring, the New York Ocean and Great Lakes Ecosystem Conservation Council called for the...Tags: Aquaculture, Conservation, Nancy Solomon, Long Island, Seafood and Fishing Industry
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LI doctors: Obama should support malpractice award caps
ridgely.ochs@newsday.comDr. Robert Scher said listening to President Barack Obama when he spoke before the American Medical Association recently was "wonderful." "He talks beautifully and he knows what buttons to push, and he pushed them," said Scher, a Huntington...Tags: American Medical Association, Democratic National Conventions, National Government, Manhattan (New York City), Health Organizations
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Nightclub Bouncer Gets Life in Coed's Rape, Murder
KTLA NewsNEW YORK -- A nightclub bouncer was sentenced to life without parole today in the rape and murder of a graduate student whose naked body was found bound and gagged and wrapped in a quilt along a desolate road. Darryl Littlejohn, 44, was convicted of...Tags: Assault, Manhattan (New York City), Murder, Dining and Drinking, Health and Safety at School
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Stimulus funds for tribal water projects
American Indian and Alaskan communities are set to receive $90 million in stimulus funds for water and wastewater projects. Here's a sampling of where the money is going: Alaska — $3,918,750 for the native Village of Buckland for a lift station,...Tags: South Dakota, Alaska, Utah, Kansas, North Carolina
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SEC calls for Calif. IOUs to be regulated as securities, so recipients have market for sale
AP Business WriterWASHINGTON (AP) — The recipients of billions of dollars in IOUs being issued by California soon may be able to sell them on a regulated market, following action taken Thursday by federal regulators. Some of the nation's largest banks say that,...Tags: Banking, Securities, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Local Authority, Citigroup Incorporated
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Woman says Binghamton U. used sex to lure donors
A fundraiser at an upstate New York university says senior athletic department officials tried to use her as a sexual "plaything" to ply big donors. Elizabeth Williams has sued Binghamton University and the two officials in federal court in Manhattan....Tags: Isiah Thomas, Minority Groups, Manhattan (New York City), Colleges and Universities, Crimes
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National Theatre plays 'Phedre' on movie screens
On June 25, a mere 890 people filed into one of three intimate playhouses in London's National Theatre to watch Helen Mirren chew her elegant way through "Phedre," the play about the Athenian queen who falls into crazy, poisonous love with her stepson....Tags: Theater, Music Theater, Books and Magazines, Tom Stoppard, Manhattan (New York City)
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