Word: beached
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Amidst a constant barrage of paper airplanes and beach balls, the editor of a science-humor magazine presented this year's Ig Nobel awards last night for "achievements that cannot or should not be reproduced...
Patrick Taylor knows that first-hand. On Sunset Beach in North Carolina, he's selling a half-acre of marsh three-quarters of a mile from the beach. It has no amenities--no water or sewage. Taylor is not even sure what can be built on it. To reach an inlet, you'd have to build a long pier to cross the marsh. He's asking $20,000 for it, and even as Hurricane Floyd approached last week, Taylor was fielding calls from prospective buyers who had read his classified ad in out-of-state newspapers. "They know a good...
...Reported by Brad Liston/Daytona Beach, Melissa August and Delphine Matthieussent/Washington and Timothy Roche/Atlanta
...extreme sports are nuts. I played football and then rugby for years. It wasn't the risk that enthralled me. It was that sense of belonging, of being part of a team. Prove how tough I am by jumping off a bridge? Forget it. PETER HILLYER North Topsail Beach...
...going to do everything I can to see that regular Americans can fly as high as their wings will take them." That would be a seductive idea if we could all soar as high as the Donald, who can hop on his private jet and deplane in Palm Beach for his Mar-a-Lago estate. Let's go along for the ride anyway. It'll be nice and bumpy...