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...access to what we seek and acceptance for our musical tastes is coming. When is that day? To quote from one of the unforgettable songs Schulman renders for the album, “Who knows? / It’s only just out of reach, / Down the block, on a beach, / Maybe tonight, / Maybe tonight, / Maybe tonight...
...students who really know how to have a good time will spend their Spring Break on the eminent beaches of—in alphabetical order—Acapulco, the Bahamas, Cancun and the Dominican Republic. The sand might be white, the waves crashing and the breeze blowing at any one of these balmy vacation destinations, but no one makes the trek there, or to Key West or Jamaica, to take pleasure in the salty beach air. More likely, the only pleasure anyone gets from these beaches is by finding a spot to nurse a hangover and attempt to forget...
...rent: a tropical island in the Andaman Sea, covered in primary rain forest and fringed by coral reefs. Current occupants: hermit crabs, several varieties of snake, geckos, bats, rats, shrews, birds and the occasional sea turtle visiting the beach to lay her eggs. Going cheap at $100 a year...
...Annexed in the 19th century by the British, who found the archipelago's remoteness ideal for a penal colony, the islands were largely ignored until a newly independent India thought them the perfect location for military muscle building. The Indian Navy still regularly stages beach landings to the bewilderment of sunbathing tourists. Last November, a flotilla of warships, attack helicopters, amphibious craft and even battle tanks occupied a deserted island defended only by cockatoos...
...found the next best thing?a miniature hump-backed lump of igneous rock barely 800 m long and about 400 m wide just off Kalipur Beach, 20 km to the south of Diglipur. It had no name, but it did have a beach, a lagoon and even a patch of forest?we immediately dubbed it Turtle Island...