Tiny N.C. Island Named Top Beach
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By Martha Waggoner  RALEIGH, N.C. - Move over Florida and Hawaii. Your beaches are no longer the best.  The nation's best place to get a tan and enjoy the ocean's waves in 2007 is North Carolina's Ocracoke Island, a place so remote that even people in the offices of "Dr.
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WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, N.C. - A wayward Arctic ice seal was found Friday on a beach in southern North Carolina, far from its usual habitat.
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SANIBEL ISLAND, Fla. - This crescent of sand bathed by the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico is one of Florida&#39;s mythic destinations, a magnet for bird-watchers, seashell gatherers and the simply sun-starved.
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By Kelly Marshall Fuller, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Sep. 8--Residents on the south end of Garden City Beach have fought for more than two years to keep large-scale beach houses, also known as "mini hotels" out of their community.
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Cumberland Island is the largest undeveloped barrier island on the Eastern Seaboard and about half of it is federal wilderness area, meaning visitors and National Park Service employees are supposed to hike rather than drive. But the island has a handful of permanent residents who are free to drive on the three roads.
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By LAWRENCE LATANE III  A Northern Neck property owner wants permission to build homes on 15-story-tall cliffs in an area known for attracting hundreds of bald eagles.  Terrell W.
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By Jason M. Rodriguez, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Mar. 6--CAROLINA SHORES, N.C. -- An eight-year battle to control stormwater flow is going to take even longer and now hinges on the state's proposed plan for widening U.S. 17.
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By Catherine Kozak, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Mar. 5--It was during what some locals called "the summer of the piping plover." Two vehicles were parked on the beach on the south end of Hatteras Island. Nearby, on a pole shoved crookedly in the sand, was a sign: AREA CLOSED.
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By Henry Eichel, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Sep. 17--Lancaster County Council members want to hire a consultant to help them protect a rare little shellfish that sits in the way of continued growth in Indian Land.
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By Chrissy Vick, The Daily News, Jacksonville, N.C.  Mar. 6--A juvenile bald eagle rescued on Topsail Island in January is  still fighting to get well.
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By Bruce Henderson and Jefferson George, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Jan. 30--CHIMNEY ROCK -- The family that has owned it for a century agreed Monday to sell the 315-foot spire called Chimney Rock, soon to be the centerpiece of one of North Carolina's most spectacular state parks.
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By Wood, Paul  Beyond Kauai stretch hidden islands, coral reefs-and our newest national monument  DAWN LIGHT ILLUMINATES the dunes of Barking Sands beach, the westernmost point on Kauai, which is the northernmost island in the main Hawaiian chain.
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By Beth Velliquette, The Herald-Sun, Durham, N.C.  Jun.
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By Pugh, Nicole  On the Big Island of Hawaii, the black ind beach at Punalu'u in the rural 'district of Kau is renowned as much for its dramatic beauty as it is for the giant sea turtles that return each year to nest there.
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By CAIN BURDEAU  SHELL BEACH, La. - Unde
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Residents on a group of tiny British islands were tonight counting the cost of the ferocious hurricane roaring across the Caribbean.
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By Robin Lord, Cape Cod Times, Hyannis, Mass.  Jun. 24--CHATHAM -- Sand, wind and water rule the day here on North  Beach.