Crawling speed affects the amount of time the hatchling spends on the beach, with longer on beach periods increasing the chance of terrestrial predation, or becoming dehydrated or overheated (Dial, 1987; Burgess et al., 2006; Janzen et al., 2007).
As Orrin H. Pilkey, a Duke University geologist, observed, "seawalls destroy beaches, period"...
But some experts say that Atlantic City has particular potential for gay patrons because of its beach scene, period architecture, louche history, access to urban communities from New York to Washington and even the campy resonance of the Miss America Pageant.
If the options for your next vacation come down to the usual beach relaxation period or volunteering at an elephant shelter in Thailand, which would you choose?
There is a small possibility that a patient was seen twice by the same GP during the BEACH recording period.
No significant differences in lung function were detected between pre- and post-beach-exposure periods when there was no Florida red tide.
"This is the cleanest beach on Staten Island — period," he said.
The bodies, officials said, could have been left on the beach over a period of two years.
(For more on "Beach," and the period of Bolaño's life it covers, see Daniel Zalewski's elegant 2007 piece in The New Yorker).
Grey seals breed in winter, between November and January; their young cannot swim until they have lost their first white coat, so they are restricted to dry land for their first three or four weeks, and can be viewed on the beach during this period.
FOR the home of Tom Viertel and Pat Daily, Patrick Gallagher created a period beach-house ambience, the period being the 1950's and 60's.
