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...years ago, the mayor of Paris bestowed an unusual gift upon residents stuck in the city during the annual grandes vacances, or summer break. An artificial beach was laid out next to the river Seine, complete with imported white sand, palm trees and sun loungers, becoming an instant hit with tourists and locals alike. The inspired notion of turning a busy strip of asphalt into a downtown beach has now found another convert?the Dutch city of Rotterdam. Located on the banks of the river Maas at Leuvehaven, Rotterdam's beach is set against a backdrop of high-rises...
...find the strength he needed in the emotionally austere rituals with which he had been raised or in the Sunday-morning services he and Laura attended regularly. Instead, he relied on a series of personal encounters, small group study and, most important, in the summer of 1985, a fateful beach walk with Graham--a man, Bush recalled in his memoirs, who "didn't make you feel guilty; he made you feel loved...
...that misidentified so many voters in 2000 and has done little to improve its accuracy. Hood staunchly denies that politics is at play, but her critics point out that almost a third of those listed reside in the heavily Democratic South Florida counties of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach. Polls show that Democratic contender John Kerry and President Bush are running neck and neck in the state, where the President's brother Jeb is Governor...
Died. Larry Capune, 61, long-distance paddleboarder who logged 16,063 miles along America's coastlines during eight epic solo trips from 1964 to 1987; of cancer; in Newport Beach, Calif. The Hollywood-born lifeguard's longest journey was a 4,255-mile trek from Portland, Maine, to Corpus Christi, Texas. Over the years, he was bitten by a sea turtle, a bluefish and a dog; hit by a tanker once and by freighters twice; and smacked in the head by a Coke bottle thrown by a pier owner who said Capune was scaring the fish...
...Warner still hadn't decided what genre best suited Reagan. Melodrama? Let him play a small-town D.A. in the 1951 anti--Ku Klux Klan Storm Warning, with another lynch-mob scene and heavy emoting from all the principals but Reagan. Comedy? Put him in The Girl from Jones Beach (1949), where he's an artist who has assembled the perfect pinup from the comeliest body parts of 12 models...