Every summer, this Cape Cod seashore town becomes what the sociologists would call a focus of conflicting cultures.
A 28-year-old drifter has been charged with murder in the stabbing death of a man who had let him live in his apartment in this Monmouth County seashore town.
The Who performed the entire score of "Quadrophenia," the group's second rock opera, which tells the story of the clash between the British mods and rockers at a British seashore town.
Usually, Ozone Action's events are moderate in tone, like bringing ambassadors from small island states to seashore town meetings on rising ocean levels from global warming, or building Web pages that use government data to illustrate increases in heat waves.
"Two nights ago, they came with small speedboats to the seashore of the town, but they went back without shooting," one resident said.
But now that they are here, the quality of life in the state is one factor that makes them want to stay -- the seashore, the diversity of the towns, the proximity to New York.
Here was a country with little racing history, planning to hold a race near a town, Mokpo, on the seashore at the tip of the peninsula, 400 kilometers, or 250 miles, south of Seoul, the capital and the more logical location.
With 40 miles of uninterrupted views of the Atlantic Ocean, Cape Cod National Seashore in Massachusetts runs through several New England fishing towns, including Truro, Wellfleet, Eastham and Provincetown.
More than two dozen similar small towns are strung out along the coast to Meulaboh and beyond, packed hard between the seashore and the rock walls of steep forested hills and defenceless against the tsunami.
Interrupting the farm and woodlands of this flat, relatively low-density area are the city of Dover, together with its suburbs and a U.S. Air Force base, the seashore communities of Rehoboth Beach and Bethany Beach which attract many retirees and towns such as Milford, Georgetown, Laurel, Selbyville, and Millsboro.
