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Retreat from the Beach Makes a Lot of Sense

"This coastal resort town [Bay St. Louis, MS] is on the front line of a project to gauge support for a mass federal buyout of 17,000 homes near Mississippi's Katrina-ravaged shore. This could become the nation's most significant attempt to radically reconfigure coastal communities -- converting huge swaths of flood-prone residential lots to public wetlands." - excerpt from this Los Angeles Times article.

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