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Jetties can cause beach larceny on an even grander scale. Long concrete or rock structures, they jut out into the water to keep inlets and harbors navigable by keeping sand and silt from drifting in. Like groin fields, jetties can keep sand from replenishing beaches down current. The construction 90 years ago of a pair of jetties to improve the harbor at Charleston, S.C., altered currents and natural sand drift so drastically that there is no beach left at high tide at nearby Folly Beach. In Florida an estimated 80% to 85% of the beach erosion on the state...
...best music. The joy, the brazen melodrama, the low tragedy and the raunch all range free on the two greatest hits packages. The Sun Sessions, first released in 1976, is a seminal record. This new version offers alternate takes and outtakes, including an unlikely version of Harbor Lights, and makes a fascinating history of one scuffling producer (Sun Founder and Rock Pioneer Sam Phillips) and three good ole boys (Elvis, Lead Guitarist Scotty Moore, Bass Player Bill Black) groping toward greatness. "That's fine," says Sam Phillips after one take on Blue Moon of Kentucky. "Hell, that's different. That...
...outline, there will be room for improvisation. "We don't want the audience to go to sleep," explains Playwright Mark Giesser. Finally, on Constitution Day, Sept. 17, the Constitution itself -- the U.S.S. Constitution, that is -- will leave her < berth and be pulled by tugs to the center of Boston harbor, where she will be saluted by every ship in port...
...result, disclosed last week: the weapons passed through 20% of the time on average. At Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix, two-thirds of the concealed armaments escaped detection. The FAA blamed the failures not on faulty metal detectors or luggage X rays but on guards who failed to pay attention...
Actress Joanne Woodward at the College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Me.: Age has given me the arrogance and experience has given me the urgency to tell you what time looks like from this side of the river. My generation was the first to know we might not have any time at all, and yours was the first to be born knowing it. With each second you have after this one, you have to find a way to guarantee that time itself can live. We must choose to be custodians of this lovely planet that suckled...