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• One Saturday afternoon, during the campaign to decide whether or not there should be a Coastal Commission, I took a helicopter ride from Los Angeles to San Diego.
  We passed several state beaches, some crowded and some virtually empty....
• The beach was a beach we shall not name, because his private house was there
  but it was a small sandy stretch somewhere along the hundreds of miles of coastline that runs west from Los Angeles, which is described in the new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" in one entry as "junky, wunky, lunky, stunky, and what's that other word, and all kinds of bad stuff, woo," and in another, written only hours later as "being like several thousand square miles of American Express junk mail, but without the same sense of moral depth....
• The following appeared in a newsletter from a national astronomy association.
  "Various sources are predicting higher-than-average temperatures across the country next winter, including in Sun City, the traditional location of our yearly winter conference....
• The following is a letter to the head of the tourism bureau on the island of Tria.
  "Erosion of beach sand along the shores of Tria Island is a serious threat to our island and our tourist industry....
• Many pages make a crowded castle.
• aga n. [WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people.
  Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L....
• I will not yell "fire" in a crowded classroom.
• One of the greatest unsolved riddles of restaurant eating is that the customer usually gets faster service when the restaurant is crowded that when it is half empty
  it seems that the less that the staff has to do, the slower they do it. -- Sydney J. Harri...