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...soon as you reach your destination, everyone immediately has to begin playing the most intense game of their short spring break lifetimes--Find the Sand and Take a Tan. By gaining the coveted distinction of possessing a deep, dark, wonderful tan, you will be eligible to receive back-handed compliments in Cambridge like, "I bet you wore that light blue shirt just to show your...
...sand of the desert is sodden...
Under a microscope, it resembles a stylized Navaho rug or the aerial view of a railroad switching yard. Like the grains of sand on a beach, it is made mostly of silicon, next to oxygen the most abundant element on the surface of the earth...
...moratorium on construction of the line. Others have taken more forceful action. When power-company survey crews invade their fields, farmers harass them with onrushing snowmobiles. They block construction machinery with pickup trucks and boulders. They shove welding rods into the radiators of the power companies' tractors, sprinkle sand and gravel into gas tanks. Four masked men on horseback menaced one work crew; up to 100 chanting protestors have played "ring-around-the-tripod" to heckle surveyors. Math Woida, a Sauk Centre farmer, became a local hero by picking a particularly windy day to spread manure: the stuff...
...seasonal resident of Martha's Vineyard, Simon opens her elegant little book with a look at some of the coastline's natural systems. Sand, she writes, is the basic ingredient of most coasts, and though it appears insubstantial, plays a major role in buffering the land's boundaries from the pounding of the sea. "Sand meets water's force with its natural tendency to move," observes Mrs. Simon. "Its soft answer turns away the sea's wrath." Wet lands-marshes, swamps and coastal grass-also play a part, nourishing every thing from birds to bivalves...