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Published Oct. 5, 2009 at 4:10 p.m.

Instead of reading them, Jay makes headlines TV host Jay Leno is donating his customized Star V-Max motorcycle for an Oct. 10 auction to benefit Bailey’s Cafe community center, 196 Albany Avenue. Leno has been a longtime friend of the program’s found ...

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SWINE FLU SCARE FOR METS, BELTRAN

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Published June 3, 2009 at 2:35 a.m.

PITTSBURGH -- The Mets were on high alert here yesterday after a producer on their SNY broadcast crew was sent back to New York and put in isolation with a possible case of swine flu ... The Mets were even more on guard because center fielder Carlos ...

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Flu Scare is Science Scare

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Published April 27, 2009 at 10:48 a.m.

President Obama declared swine flu is “not a cause for alarm” this morning even as he held up the disease scare as a reason to get better at science ... “If there was ever a day that reminded us of our shared stake in science and research, it’s today,” Obama told the National Academy of Sciences ... “We are closely monitoring the emerging cases of swine flu in the United States,” Obama said, a day after the White House held a press conference to detail the massive federal response

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