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These properties have the look of any treed area one might find in Western Massachusetts or Northern New England, yet are but a five-minute drive to beautiful ocean beaches. Hence, an owner would have a residence which would serve not only as a "place at the shore," but also as a weekend retreat, October to May, as well as a home for the years of retirement...
There are two especially significant advantages to these properties. First, the land is back about a mile from the ocean safe from beach erosion and hurricane destruction. Second, these parcels are only a five-minute drive from two ocean beaches. Owners of these parcels become members of an association owning a four-acre parcel on a barrier beach, with 100-footfrontage on a sandy ocean beach, a membership which assures private access to an ocean beach, in perpetuity...
...last. The three cosmonauts will abandon ship in August after installing a new computer allowing ground controllers to command the station remotely. From that point Mir's orbit, currently about 240 miles above Earth, will begin to tighten. When it reaches 125 miles, the Russians will pick an ocean -- unlike Skylab, which NASA dangerously allowed to deorbit itself -- and send the 120-ton station its final command. And then, says Kluger, "the last vestiges of the Russian space empire will be gone, which I guess is why they've been so reluctant...
...teach the Japanese a lesson or two? Although only the world's fourth largest carmaker, DaimlerChrysler's $95 billion market capitalization looms over General Motors, and the company is sitting on $22 billion in cash. Its 440,000 employees make everything from cars and trucks to Airbuses, trains and ocean-liner engines...
...motion, there's hardly a moment for him to catch his breath before setting off again on some new adventure. The last panel of a Tintin book rarely depicts anything other than a scene of departure: we bid farewell to the boy reporter as he steams away on an ocean liner, boards an airplane or blasts off into the night sky in his rocket ship. An old man and his courageous son, recently rescued from the clutches of some nefarious revolutionary cell, stand on the dock and wave their handkerchiefs...