Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Saving Lebanon's War-Damaged Beach

December 5, 2006

Lebanon

With white plastic bags covering his trainers, Mokhtar Hasbini, 17, stood on the Ramlat al-Baida beach and surveyed the scene of destruction. Mokhtar was an early volunteer As Beirut's only public beach it would be normally crowded with pleasure-seekers. But instead the once-white sands were blackened by an oil slick.