Chest bumps. High fives. Hugs and handshakes. Glen Cove Middle School
students Ali Slaughter and Hannah Seltzer say that's what friends do on
the first day of school. But when students in the Nassau community
return to school next week, the superintendent will be urging
abstinence. Everyone from the tiniest tots to the biggest high school
football players will be asked to limit skin-on-skin contact in an
attempt to prevent the spread of swine flu when it re-emerges this
fall.
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