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The other side of Long Island (Baltimore Sun) - Forget the Hamptons. Charming villages and small wineries on the North Fork are capturing tourists' hearts IF LONG ISLAND, N.Y.'S SOUTH Fork is a Grey Goose martini downed on the dance floor, the North Fork is a chilled glass of chardonnay savored on the veranda. The south is Bridgehampton's Mercedes- Benz Polo Challenge; the north is the old-fashioned merry-go-round on the Greenport harbor

Long Island New York Pizza Contest Gets Hi-Jacked (PR Web) - 101.1 Jack FM, a CBS radio station has taken over The Best Pizza on Long Island New York Competition as the official presenting sponsor. This annual charity event supports local pizzerias and raises funds to feed the hungry on Long Island, NY. (PRWEB Aug 5, 2006)

Circus Elephants Beat The Heat On Long Island (CBS 2 New York) - Everyone is trying to cope during this intense heat wave, even the elephants. See how a pair of circus elephants in Lindenhurst, Long Island, beat the heat with the help of their handlers.

Pitcairn Island Work Wins Construction Award (Scoop.co.nz) - Auckland – 07 August 2006: A project to construct a reinforced concrete road and repair the jetty on remote Pitcairn Island, has won the New Zealand Contractors’ Federation (NZCF) Hirepool Construction Award for programmes between $3 and $10 million.

Olympic Athletes Circumnavigate Long Island to Raise Awareness of Alzheimer's Disease (Great Neck Record) - Expectations are high as two Olympian women kayakers, Kathy Colin and Dru van Hengel, travel to Long Island from the west coast, to shatter the record for the "Memory Paddle Challenge."

Dubai Man-Made Island Nears Completion (WJLA-TV Washington D.C.) - DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - With 14,000 laborers toiling day and night, the first of Dubai's three palm-shaped islands is finally about to get its first residents.The Palm Jumeirah, a 12-square-mile island group, is part of what's billed as the largest land-reclamation project in the world, the product of five years of brute hauling of millions of tons of Persian Gulf sand and quarried

Minnesota teen killed by LIRR train (Newsday) - A Minnesota teen's night on the town turned tragic when she died after being struck by a Long Island Rail Road train in Queens.

Patent Pending Tour (antiMUSIC) - (PR) Long Island punkers Patent Pending will be taking their show on the road this fall as they're excited to announce that they'll be touring with Gym Class Heroes. Things are really starting to happen for the "P-Unit ," as they are affectionately known by their fans.

Gulf Coast Island Harkens Back to a Gentler Era: Anna Maria Has the Laid-Back Ambience of Key West Without All of the (RedNova) - By Marjie Lambert, The Miami Herald Aug. 6--ANNA MARIA -- We spread our beach towels between two abandoned sandcastles, their turrets and battlements undercut by a tide that had long since receded, sipped wine and waited for the sun to set over the Gulf of Mexico.

Dubai man-made island nears completion (AP via Yahoo! News) - With 14,000 laborers toiling day and night, the first of Dubai's three palm-shaped islands is finally about to get its first residents.