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Fighting Mother Nature

Tidal movements and storms have a way of eating at our coastline, and a new study will highlight lots of tough decisions ahead

The haunting televised images of flooding in the Midwest remind us once again that it's not wise to mess with Mother Nature. That lesson will be preoccupying us on Long Island in the months ahead, as we grapple with the question of how best to preserve the shoreline that brings us so much beauty and helps give us economic life.

In the Midwest, as a story in Newsday pointed out on Friday, some...

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