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...salt, has a clearly defined width of 462 ft. and washes a shoreline 280 ft. long, composed of 600 tons of crushed, polished pebbles, all under a 660-ft. retractable roof. The chirping of birds is filtered through a sound system and echoes in the air even as plastic palm trees flutter in a piped-in breeze. When it officially opens this week, 10,000 people at a time will be able to play in the temperature-controlled waters of this man-made beach...
...task of cleanup. The receding waters will leave behind all manner of wreckage. Examples: the floating chicken coops and broken tree branches Paul Rice has to steer his flat-bottomed boat past to reach his submerged home in St. Charles County. Or the lumber, three ice chests and four plastic garbage cans he has plucked from the waters around his house and placed on his roof -- still a foot above the waterline. In some areas, agricultural chemicals and human and animal wastes will be mixed with the debris. And of course, mud -- tons and tons and tons...
Variations: You can buy colorful plastic cubes with liquid inside at some gourmet stores. The idea is that they don't water down your drink or ruin the taste...
When Nichols Pierre, a cattle tender, boarded the Dieu Veut, he carried only a torn plastic satchel of clothes and a new pair of shoes that he hoped would bring him luck in America. In the course of selling everything else he had ever accumulated, Pierre discovered that at age 38, his net worth amounted to slightly less than $23. Now it is zero; he sleeps on the floor of friends' houses and begs or steals food to survive...
...gave it her all. "I do or die," she once said, "but I never cancel out." She was such the perfect wife and mother -- pressing his pants, making dresses for daughters Tricia and Julie, doing her own housework even as the Vice President's wife -- that she was tagged "Plastic Pat." Washington sophisticates just didn't get it: that was the real Pat Nixon doing those homely family tasks, loving the life that had always been on the other side of the candy-store window. Far from plastic, she was steel, celebrating his victories even when she was often overlooked...