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...last year, a group of Poonsters piled into a van for a 12-day road trip affectionately referred to as "Lampy's East Coast Kegger Romp...
...into the permafrost for food storage. Permafrost provides stiffening for the coastline in much of the north; where thawing has occurred, wave action has caused severe erosion. Some coastal Inuit villages are virtually marooned as the ground crumbles all around them. And as the ice retreats farther from the coast, Inuit hunters are finding that prey like walrus has moved out of reach of their boats...
Even though her leg is healing, Danielle says, the 4-ft. shark that bit her still stalks the murky depths of her sleep. On the coast, a shark washed ashore recently, but a necropsy didn't find any human bones inside. As the line from a similar scene in Jaws goes, "There's still one helluva shark out there, Martin...
...Well, uh, no. Australians are among the most urbanized people on earth. They have seen their national animal, the kangaroo, only in a zoo or as roadkill on the Hume Highway. Nearly 90% of us live on the coast, not in the outback, wherever that elusive place may be defined as being. (The "bush" is outside the suburbs, the "outback" beyond the bush, and the "black stump" is the word for a very remote datum point, as in, "He lives way out there beyond the black stump.") Our country towns are in decline. Their inhabitants keep moving to the coast...
...Gore is on a boat, and I have fled up the coast to Santa Barbara, figuring the best way to clear my head in a hurry was to get out of L.A. and onto neutral ground. It's working a little too well - the Democratic convention is quickly receding into a small box in my memory, and in my fatigued and malnourished state I sometimes think I dreamed the whole thing. On Monday, the newsmagazine covers will feature non-political faces again. Tiger Woods will have won the PGA Championship again. And the only thing left over from Los Angeles...