America intercepts fleeing Haitians and Cubans at sea and returns them (although Cubans who make it to Florida generally get permission to stay, as political refugees).

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But the song builds again, the flames reach higher, and British Sea Power returns to its pumping opening lines, pushing harder and faster toward an inevitable screeching burnout.

NPR: British Sea Power: For Those Who Like to Rock

Control of energy resources, he argued, could provide social and economic benefits to the whole of Scotland - while suggesting that Scotland could look forward to at least forty more years of returns from the North Sea, shared or otherwise.

BBC: Alex Salmond keeps the faith

This week, Rae returns with her second album, The Sea, and it's light-years ahead of what she'd done before.

NPR: Corinne Bailey Rae Mesmerizes With 'The Sea'

As each colourfully painted wooden fishing boat returns from three or four days at sea, the beach rapidly transforms into a market and large metal bowls of shiny silver herring and tuna are hauled ashore by men who look like Olympic medal-winning body builders.

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