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Beach Fill -- At What Cost and to Whose Benefit

"Yet since 1965, more than 800 nourishment projects have occurred along the East and Gulf coasts at a cost of nearly $2 billion. Most of this federal and state tax money went to protect the beachfront interests of a very small minority of affluent people." - excerpt from the article at http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20050714/opcom14.art.htm

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