'All the Sea Was Like a Desert'
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When the first waves rolled in, A.D. Chandaratna was mending a fishing net on the beach in front of the single-story  house he shares with his wife and four children. Fearing for their safety, he did the sensible thing and evacuated them to higher ground. Then he committed what could have been a fatal mistake: He went back to take a second look.
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By Anna Jeys  IT wasn't exactly the right weather as rain threatened to put a damp-ener on the launch of Birmingham's latest beach.
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The stories of Britons caught up in the sea surges across south and east Asia. My beautiful sister Lisa died when the tsunami hit the tiny Koh Phra Thong island in Thailand.
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Although the Southern California desert is a long way -- and drastically different -- from her native South Korea, Grace Park feels at home among the sand and the cacti.
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This is the time of year when, in the lengthening shadows of afternoon, the air grows still and mysterious around here. An aura of secrecy and duplicity replaces that friendly banter among serious fisherpeople. Down the long strand of beach, shadowy figures keep to themselves, never showing whatever success they may be enjoying.
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By Anne Le Tran  THROUGH the long, soggy winter, when I sat at my desk staring out the window at the sky, I fantasized about one thing: indolent days by a body of clear blue water.   Finally, the rain stopped and the earth dried out.
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He knew something was wrong. He felt it during the season. He felt it during summer league. The problem for Al Jefferson was greater than a bum ankle, however. He found believers about his plight to be harder to find than those poor souls stuck on that island in ``Lost."
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KAKOME BAY, Albania  - On a midsummer night 20  years ago, a tall Frenchman beached his small sailing boat near  Kakome Bay on the forbidding coast of communist Albania, then  the world's most isolated country.
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Could people and vehicles that have mysteriously vanished in the desert have been swallowed up by shifting sands?
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By Kieran Falconer  One of my earliest memories is of feeling the sand - just sitting and rubbing sand between my fingers and toes. Later, as older boys, we would slope off from home - and school, of course - and head straight for the beach.
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For his action-adventure movie about plane-crash survivors stranded in Mongolia's Gobi, director John Moore needed a boundless, untouched desert. He found it in Namibia.
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In a statement last night the 81-year-old actor-director and Lady Attenborough said that Lucy had âdied at the sceneâ as a wall of water engulfed the resort of Phuket, where
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How an accidental oasis in the Mexican desert sank Arizona's $250 million desalination plant. A case study in the law of unintended consequences. By Jeff Howe from Wired magazine.
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ARANDA, Albania - Encrusted with tiny shells and smelling strongly of the sea, a 2,400-year-old Greek jar lies in a saltwater bath in Durres Museum, on Albania's Adriatic coast.
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PENSACOLA, Fla. Sept. 29, 2004 - Many of Florida&#39;s beaches have taken on a different look after this year&#39;s parade of hurricanes finished shifting, eroding or completely relocating tons of sand.
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By ROBERT LEE HOTZ, LOS ANGELES TIMES  SLEIPNER PLATFORM, North Sea  Buffeted by crosswinds, the lone helicopter flew on for an hour across the shale-gray waves of the North Sea with no destination in sight.
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Shellfish discarded in a South African cave is said to be the earliest evidence of humans living and thriving by the sea.