Re-Engineering America's Beaches, One Tax Dollar at a Time

In the following weeks, more than 200 fuses, many still potentially explosive, were excavated in Surf City. Beaches remained closed while contractors ran powerful magnetometers across the sand. The closures scared off buyers for a pair of half-million-dollar beach condos Buscemi had renovated, but what angers him most is simply thinking about what might have happened: "That thing could have blown my son's arm off." Full Story »

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Dwight Rousu
3.3
by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

Rebuilding beaches could become quite a job if sea levels rise 20 feet or more with global warming. What to do and how to do it may become a more important story. The current story of destroying nature for rich people's houses is an "explosive" exposition.

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