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One Principal Had To Get Creative To Motivate Students To Attend School

Throughout her tenure at PS/IS 184 Newport, Principal Lisa Caldwell Linder brought theater, band, and community services to her school as a way to strengthen school attendance and make her community of Brownsville, Brooklyn stronger. Principal Linder coined the phrase “I am not my zip code,” as a way of empowering her students to be proud of their identities, regardless of their zip code’s perennially high crime rates.

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Organic Walnuts Linked To E. Coli Infections In Washington, California

The Washington State Department of Health, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advise people to stop eating organic walnut halves and pieces sold in bulk at several stores in Washington because of possible contamination with E. coli bacteria.