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...miles of exposed Pacific shoreline is receding at an average rate of between 6 in. and 2 ft. a year (the cover photo shows the coast northwest of Santa Barbara). Monterey Bay, south of San Francisco, loses as much as 5 ft. to 15 ft. annually. Cape Shoalwater, Wash., about 70 miles west of Olympia, has been eroding at the rate of more than 100 ft. a year since the turn of the century; its sparsely settled sand dunes have retreated an astounding 12,000 ft., or more than two miles, since...
...tall, with a mop of dark brown hair just beginning to gray at the temples, caterpillar-thick eyebrows and an aggressive Grecian nose tempered by a soft, almost shy smile. But in the Democratic presidential race Dukakis is as hot as a Friday-night traffic jam heading for Cape Cod. Ever since he unveiled his long-shot candidacy in March, Dukakis has been running like a modern-day Hermes in wing- tip shoes. He inherited most of Gary Hart's Iowa organization, raised a record $4.2 million in three months, and was judged by the keepers of the conventional wisdom...
Across the continent in Hyannis, Mass., Denny's Restaurant closed before the start of what should have been its peak season. It needed at least 70 employees to serve the summer crowds flocking to Cape Cod, but was able to hire only 13. A nearby Stop & Shop Supermarket found six cashiers only by recruiting in New Bedford, Mass., 40 miles away. The store will send a van to pick up the six every morning and drive them back at night, and the company will pay the employees time and a half for their two hours of daily travel...
...been making progress. Two hamlets just beyond the 18-mile security zone were recently reoccupied, and families have started moving back to 16 other villages. The town of Chernobyl itself has been declared largely decontaminated. Thousands of cleanup workers reside in a temporary settlement optimistically named Zelony Mys (Green Cape...
Just six inches from tip to tail, the tiny brown birds made their home in a ten-mile coastal stretch of marsh near Titusville, Fla. When development from nearby Cape Canaveral began to encroach, they stubbornly refused to move, and their numbers declined relentlessly. Last week the last known Dusky Seaside Sparrow expired: Orange Band, a twelve-year-old male, was found dead in its + cage...