Supply of Chinese Sand Sculptors Exceeding Demand

Able to Leap Sand Castles at a Single Bound

Abraham Lincoln Reacts to the News That

an Aircraft Carrier Bearing His Name Has

Been Deployed to the Middle East to

Bully Iran

Two Land Sharks Spotted Sunning 

on New Jersey Beach

Mortgage Foreclosed on Castle Made of Sand,

Dreamer Evicted

"Help! Help! I'm being sliced and diced!"

Archaeological Dig Uncovers Sculptures Dating Back to the

Old Sand Age

Nativity Scene with Joseph, Mary, and Sandy Underpants

How They Measure Geological Time

What does the inscription say?

'Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown

and wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command

tell that its sculptor well those passions read'.

Sounds like Ozymandias, but no, it's Saddam

Hussein, just the latest of America's 'useful

dictators' whose usefulness ran out.

Isaac Couto, a Brazilian sand sculptor, spends a

week to complete one of his magnificent creations.

And despite his best efforts, it will collapse in about

three months. His sculptures give added poignance

to the Jimi Hendrix lyric, "And so castles made of

sand fall in the sea, eventually."