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'When you feel strongly about something, [it] doesn't have to be limited to starving children in Africa or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,' said [Andrew] El-Khadi, 25." His cause: trying to save a Bay Ridge Starbucks marked for closure. Keep on fighting the good fight, sir. [NYDN]