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Waldorf Eighth Grader Wins Gold Medal at Long Island Math Fair (Garden City News) - On April 27, over 600 students from the Long Island area made presentations at the final round of the Al Kalfus Long Island Math Fair held at Hofstra University. Olivia Paone, an eighth grader at the Waldorf School of Garden City, won a gold medal for her presentation on the history, properties and mathematics of the Fibonacci sequence.

Police: Long Island woman killed in DWI crash (WABC-TV New York) - There was a horrible accident Tuesday night on Long Island.

'Dr. Beach' calls Ocracoke Island tops (AP via Yahoo! News) - Move over, Florida and Hawaii. Your beaches are no longer the best. The nation's best place to get a tan and enjoy the ocean's waves in 2007 is North Carolina's Ocracoke Island, a place so remote that even people in the offices of "Dr. Beach" — Florida International University professor Stephen Leatherman — didn't know where to find it on the map.

Long Island to Receive One of Nation's Largest National Guard and Reserve Unit Facilities (WNYC New York Public Radio) - REPORTER: Long Island will get one of the largest National Guard and Reserve Unit facilities in the US. Democratic Congressman Steve Israel says after the communication breakdown following Hurricane ....

21km-long access road to Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, UAE is complete (Gowealthy) - Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi, UAE is the flagship real estate project of Tourism Development & Investment Company (TDIC), which is overseeing the island's transformation into a strategic international tourism, cultural and residential destination.

ONE thousand new firearms as well as protective gear for the security forces are expected to arrive in the island next ... (The Jamaica Observer) - The announcement of additional resources for the police was well received yesterday by the Island Special Constabulary Force (ISCF) officers, who have long been complaining about the poor state of items assigned to them.

Trading One Beach Retreat for Another (New York Times) - Mark Doty and Paul Lisicky once shared a home in Provincetown, Mass., but in Fire Island Pines, off the south shore of Long Island, they found an ideal nostalgic retreat.

Island Park display honors fallen soldier (Newsday) - The display case that sits inside the entrance of the Island Park Library has grabbed the attention of patrons for the past two weeks.

Teen Goes On Joyride -- Through Long Island Mall (WCBS-TV New York) - A teenager drove to a crowded suburban mall on Thursday but neglected to park -- instead smashing through the entrance and cruising past clothing stores before exiting the car to deliver a speech to onlookers, police said.

Icy Island Warms to Climate Change (Washington Post) - QAQORTOQ, Greenland -- The biggest island in the world is a wind-raked place, gripped by ice over four-fifths of its land, prowled by polar bears, its coastlines choked by drifting icebergs and sea ice. Many of its 56,000 people, who live on the fringes of its giant ice cap, see the effects of gl...