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An Australian pharmaceutical company will begin trials Wednesday of its experimental swine flu vaccine. Source

It’s the Father’s Day mystery that may never be solved. Source

Cesar Perales was seated early, before the Senate hearing room filled up. He stayed, just a couple of rows back from Judge Sonia Sotomayor and her relatives, all the way through the hours of speechmaking that consumed the first day of her confirmation process for a seat on the nation’s highest court. Source

We asked readers to send in photos of their gardens, and they’ve been hard at work digging and sweating and, in many cases, draining their wallets. Here are the fruits of their labor. Source

A wine region needs writers and photographers to tell its story. Long Island’s wine country has two knowledgeable chroniclers who have met that need with new books. Source

Former Newsday editor Peter Terzian’s two loves, literature and music, are married in a lovely ceremony of sorts — his new anthology, “Heavy Rotation: Twenty Writers on the Albums That Changed Their Lives” (Harper Perennial, $14.99 paper). It’s a marriage made in eclecticism — as the assembled contemporary authors explore everything from “Meet the Beatles!” … Devamını oku

Tina Fey’s satire-rich sitcom, “30 Rock,” has a leading 22 Emmy nominations, while the ’60s retro series, “Mad Men,” leads the drama pack with 16 bids. Source

Nickodemus, the DJ mastermind behind the long-running Turntables on the Hudson parties, tapped into the inspirational vibe of those shows for his new album, “Sun People” (ESL), which was released online Tuesday and hits stores in August. Source

Paul McCartney was back at the Ed Sullivan Theater, 45 years after the Beatles made their U.S. TV debut there and just before kicking off his own tour at Citi Field. Source

Rating: There’s less giggling and more sinister moments as the sixth film in the “Harry Potter” series hits theaters at midnight. Source