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Saturday, February 24, 2007

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It’s all downhill from here

Whoosh! The Long Meadow morphs into a slick slide for flake frolickers Katie Bryski and her kids, Rivkah, 9, and Ephraim, 6, as the triumvirate seeks thrills on a toboggan in Prospect Park – proving there’s no business like snow business.
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Kids asked to reflect on Holocaust

In commemoration of the 62nd anniversary of the end of the Holocaust in Yugoslavia and the closure of the Jasenovac death camps, the Jasenovac Research Institute is sponsoring its third annual essay writing contest for students ages 14 to 18.

Thre
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Ford kids make winning a science

More than 100 students presented over 80 exhibits at Bishop Ford High School’s 5th Annual Science Fair.

Winners, Christopher Kaczmarzyk, a senior, built a steam engine, while junior Brittany Brathwaite measured solar storms using magnetic met
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Civic meetings

DOWNTOWN & FORT GREENE MEETINGS LIST

The following is a list of local community organizations that are meeting in the near future in your area. If you have any information that can update this listing, or any comments pertaining to organizatio
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Norman trial update

Please note…

In a recent story about Jeff Feldman’s testimony against Clarence Norman, the former Kings County Democratic Party executive director’s thoughts about the criminal allegations against his former boss were mistakenly por
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Brooklyn Kids take advantage of elusive jack frost

Brooklyn’s love affair with an Indian summer was given the heave-ho as Mother Nature slipped on her winter coat and blanketed the city with the first major snowfall of the season, transforming Prospect Park into a winter wonderland.

The tobog
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First-class anti-Semite

I wish to express my opposition to the rush to change the name of Corbin Place.

Anti-Semitism has been around for a long time. Indications are that it will be around for a long time to come.

Corbin was not worse than Henry Ford. Yet, we bu
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It’s getting hot in here

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, with hundreds of scientists from 133 countries, determined conclusively that man-made greenhouse gases are responsible for global warming.

They predicted devastating droughts and hurricanes, and exten

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