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New Tribeca Whole Foods Goes Green

A&E · Backpage- September 4th, 2008 · By KAITLYN KWAN with additional reporting by ALAN SAGE

Paper bags, organic products and wholehearted customer service can only match the description of one grocery store: Whole Foods. This entirely green company, devoted to the preservation of the environment, opened its newest chain store, which is located at 270 Greenwich Street in Tribeca, on Wednesday, July 9. From its seven different departments—Meat, Grocery, Bakery, [...]

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Elephants and Army Tales

Backpage · Opinions- September 4th, 2008 · By REBECCA ELLIOTT

Erwin, Tennessee—town of 500 known for hanging a circus elephant to death in 1916.
Murderous Mary, the first elephant in Tennessee, was undoubtedly unaware of the fame she would bring to the town of her final performance—or how stories of her killing would one day be told by a wilderness aficionado to a busload of whitewater [...]

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Don’t Jump In

Backpage · Sports- September 4th, 2008 · By AARON GHITELMAN

The Public Schools Athletic league (PSAL) is not known for making great decisions. After video evidence proved that the score of the playoff game in which the Runnin’ Rebels, Stuyvesant’s boys’ varsity basketball team, got eliminated in was in fact 40-40, the PSAL refused to hear the appeal. Last spring, when the baseball team was [...]

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Revised Locker Policy Implemented

Backpage · News- September 4th, 2008 · By CHRIS LEE and ANI SEFAJ

Due to the success of the locker policy implemented last year, sophomores and juniors were allowed to select their own lockers through the school website from Tuesday, August 19 to Friday, August 22.
Last year, students could purchase assigned locks for 11 dollars. This policy was implemented because the administration hoped to reduce locker thefts. This [...]

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