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I kept my answer to all, "no's, regardless of what the questions were. She then wanted to give me Pfeizer, which I told her that was not going to happen. I choser Moderna, as I've read it is the least problematic. Once I got the vaccine, I got and left immediately, despite being advised to sit for 15 minutes.

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Unsung hero hailed Vet lost leg but not hope BY LISA MUÑOZ DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Vietnam veteran John Devine remembers lifting up the hospital bedsheet, seeing just one leg and thinking, "At least I got one." An enemy mortar had destroyed his right leg and taken the life of a soldier beside him, yet Devine managed to look on the bright side. The Massapequa man would later give in to years of feeling sorry for himself before reaching a turning point when he decided to be happy and enjoy life, he said. Devine, 57, who dedicated his life to...

31 March 2006 Meeting Doctor Doom Forrest M. Mims III Copyright 2006 by Forrest M. Mims III. Recently citizen scientist Forrest Mims told me about a speech he heard at the Texas Academy of Science during which the speaker, a world-renowned ecologist, advocated for the extermination of 90 percent of the human species in a most horrible and painful manner. Apparently at the speaker's direction, the speech was not video taped by the Academy and so Forrest's may be the only record of what was said. Forrest's account of what he witnessed chilled my soul. Astonishingly, Forrest reports that many...

A Wantage dairy farmer has become the first Sussex County farmer -- and only the fourth ever from New Jersey -- to be named a winner in the 49th annual National Outstanding Young Farmer competition. He also is the first dairy farmer in New Jersey to win the award, said Lynne Richmond, a spokeswoman with the New Jersey Department of Agriculture. "The recognition means a lot to me. I was just happy to be there," said Jeff VanderGroef, who operates the 337-acre Havendale Farm, one of the largest dairy farms in New Jersey. VanderGroef, 37, received the New Jersey 2005...