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Long Island Woman Killed On Mount Kilimanjaro (CBS 2 New York) - A Long Island woman traveling with her family on an adventure to Mount Kilimanjaro was killed when rocks and boulders tumbled into tents where tourists were sleeping, a friend said Thursday.

Snow falls in Long Island (Slam! Sports) - LONG ISLAND, N.Y. (CP) - Veteran backup goalie Garth Snow is expected to miss 3-to-4 weeks with MCL sprains in both knees, meaning the New York Islanders are without their top two goalies.

The Island: Long, good film (The Herald) - When a film is both long and good, as "The Island" most definitely is, you don’t want it to end.

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Long Island's weird attractions (Newsday) - Sometimes it's hard to know what's really weird if you're so used to living in a weird place that it all feels normal to you. That's when you need another pair of eyes to see the strangeness that you may take for granted.

On Long Island you may not be where you think you are (Newsday.com) - Leonard's of Great Neck isn't in Great Neck. The Jericho Cider Mill isn't in Jericho. And the North Fork Theatre at Westbury isn't in Westbury.

Palm Island needs drastic changes: MP (ABC via Yahoo! Australia & NZ News) - A federal Liberal MP has called on the Queensland Government to close the Palm Island Aboriginal community and move everyone to the mainland if local leaders do not improve the dreadful problems there soon.

Man beats jelly fish, vomiting in swim (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - Spanish long distance swimmer David Meca completed a 26-hour non-stop crossing from the Spanish mainland to the island of Ibiza Thursday, overcoming bouts of vomiting and swarms of jellyfish to do so.

Long Island Offshore Wind Park proposal is attractive in many ways, says writer (Babylon Beacon) - The coral reefs are dying because of the rising temperature of the Atlantic Ocean. The polar ice caps are disappearing at record levels. We can no longer feed our children tuna because of the high mercury contamination in their tissue, the primary source of which is fossil fuel-burning, electric power facilities.

After the hurricane, Cancun still has a long way to go (Seattle Times) - Five-star resorts stand battered and broken, crawling with construction crews that hammer and bulldoze, weld and re-plaster long into the...