For Dr. Beach, day at the shore is work
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First he smells the saltiness of the air and scans the beach for rip currents. Next, he digs his feet into the sand or takes an ocean swim. But then Stephen Leatherman gets out cards to measure the sand's whiteness or a sieve to calculate its fineness.
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Picture a beautiful beach spanning miles of coastline, gently lapped by aqua-colored water &#151; and sprinkled with glass.
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Dude, nothing will harsh your mellow faster than catching a few tasty waves and running into someone else's trash.  The First Coast Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation is teaming with the city's Clean it Up, Green it Up department Saturday to clean up the beaches.
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Along Roosevelt Avenue in Jackson Heights, Queens, job seekers need one very specific skill: the day laborer dive.
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By Ed Offley, The News Herald, Panama City, Fla.  Jun. 4--CARILLON BEACH -- Asmall army of construction workers, interior decorators and landscapers is hard at work putting the finishing touches on a $56 million revitalization of the Carillon Beach resort community's downtown.
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By AMELIA A. HART and MARY HURST  FERNANDINA BEACH - The sun had risen only an hour earlier June 13, but Paul Clark already was hard at work on his hands and knees digging in the sand while his wife, Loretta, stood watching carefully.
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By Michael Newsom, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb.
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By Gabriel Tynes, Walton Sun, Santa Rosa Beach, Fla.  Sep.
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Homelessness in Hawaii has become so pervasive that the governor has assigned a state employee to work full time at getting people off the beaches.
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By Patrick Donohue, Destin Log, Fla.  Jun. 20--Beach restoration in Destin may fi nish early.
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By Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach  Feb.
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By Dusty Ricketts, Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach  Sep. 10--NAVARRE BEACH -- Dredging is expected to resume on the troubled beach restoration project late next week.
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REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. -- The guests for the holiday week are already in the kitchen, whirring margaritas and toasting quesadillas as Gloria Gaynor tunes blast from the stereo. Nearly every window of Bruce Miller's house is filled with a view of the rolling surf, which at this moment late in the da...
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FORT ERIE, Ontario On his day off, Toronto policeman Rob Dobias was up at dawn, checking the weather reports sent from the shipping buoys in the Great Lakes. Overcast . . . cool . . . five-foot waves . . . blustery wind gusts to 35 miles per hour. A nasty day.
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By CHRISTINA ABEL  St. Johns County officials have been presented with a tough decision: Cut back the hours that people can drive on the beach by May 1, or lose permission to allow any beach driving at all.
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By BILL KACZOR     PENSACOLA, Fla.  -- Many of Florida's beaches have taken on a different look after this year's parade of hurricanes finished shifting, eroding or completely relocating tons of sand...
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By DREW DIXON  Friends and relatives of a surfer ushered him back to the ocean, a place that he loved, in a traditional "paddle out" memorial service Saturday off the coast of Atlantic Beach.