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It’s City salaries vs. Long Island lifestyles (Long Island Business News) - New York, New York, the town so nice, they pay you twice. For attorneys, that’s twice what you could make on Long Island.

Quake lifts Solomons island out of the sea (AFP via Yahoo! News) - The seismic jolt that unleashed the deadly Solomons tsunami this week lifted an entire island metres out of the sea, destroying some of the world's most pristine coral reefs.

Gotti's widow back in Long Island hospital (The Post-Standard) - Roslyn - The widow of mob boss John Gotti was being treated Wednesday at a Long Island hospital, where she was admitted after reportedly becoming ill at her daughter's Old Westbury home.

Quake lifts Solomons island metres from the sea (AFP via Yahoo! News) - The force of this week's Solomons earthquake has lifted an island in the South Pacific archipelago and pushed out its shoreline by tens of metres, exposing surrounding reefs.

Severed leg on Long Island linked to Mamaroneck torso (The Journal News) - MAMARONECK - A severed leg that washed up on the Long Island estate of Cablevision magnate James Dolan has been linked to a Mamaroneck murder case.

Thinking Big at a Time Others Are Thinking Small (New York Times) - In Dutch Kills, a small community in northwest Queens that is part of Long Island City, keeping out big buildings is the furthest thing from many minds.

Three Rosés for Many a Meal (New York Times) - James Christopher Tracy, winemaker at Channing Daughters, on the South Fork of Long Island, was a chef. His three 2006 rosés a merlot, a cabernet franc and a cabernet sauvignon complement many warm-weather dishes.

"Diggers" a well-intentioned look at '70s America (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - You can smell the brine in "Diggers," a thoughtful, detailed, Polaroid snapshot circa 1976 of a tightly knit village of clam-diggers on Long Island's South Shore that's rich in evocative period touches.

Near the Fast Lane, Rumblings About Noise (New York Times) - ON a sunny afternoon last week, Richard Rosen, who has explored the winding roads of Little Neck for virtually all of his 43 years, piloted his navy minivan around the service roads of Lake Success, the Nassau County community just over the city line from his house in Little Neck. His goal was to check out stone barriers along the Long Island Expressway that are designed to keep highway noise ...

Torso case: Police confirm link to leg found on Long Island (The Journal News) - MAMARONECK - A severed leg that washed up on the Long Island estate of Cablevision magnate James Dolan has been linked to a torso that washed up on a Mamaroneck beach last month.