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...visit, so the links are less crowded in summer. We recommend the government-owned Port Royal, which reopened in May after a $15 million renovation and is slated to host the 2009 PGA Grand Slam of Golf in October. The regular greens fee is $225; guests of the Pompano Beach Club next door get a 25% discount. Another good course, Riddle's Bay, has a more palatable greens...
...definitely this way," I say. We drag beach chairs and Food Emporium bags toward 81st. A guy selling old photos of New York in plastic covers shakes his head. He points farther downtown. "That entrance's better," he says...
Canada geese are also prolific poopers, and with excretions adding up to as much as 1 lb. a day per bird, the health hazards are serious. The birds have been blamed for fecal contamination that has led to beach closings. "It's not just the geese, but what the geese leave behind," says John Moriarty, natural-resources specialist for Minnesota's Ramsey County parks...
...thousands of ways across the state. Dressed in a coral polo shirt and khaki shorts, Teeda Sokhoeun sits on a swivel chair next to a tiny couch in the two-bedroom apartment she shares with her mom and five siblings in a rough working-class neighborhood of Long Beach. The port city south of Los Angeles is a polyglot of Cambodians, Latinos, African Americans and Anglos. Incomes in this inner city neighborhood are low, violence sometimes high, but Long Beach boasts one of the best urban school districts in the nation and Sokhoeun is one of the stars...
...shadows and an inner courtyard trapping pools of light, the Al Deira has an Ottoman elegance. You're led to your room along corridors where a wisp of sandalwood incense plays in the light sea breeze. The 22 rooms are a revelation: high, domed ceilings with views of the beach below, where Gazan kids play in the surf. It's worth remembering that the little soaps and shampoos, which we take for granted in most hotel rooms, have to be smuggled in from Egypt since, bafflingly, they are on Israel's long list of banned items. So is window glass...