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Ruby Beach is a quarter-mile walk from the parking lot, and it comes with sea stacks, driftwood piles and a lighthouse on the horizon

Some of the Olympic coast's best scenery takes miles to reach. This beach asks for a quarter mile, and low tide opens up even ...
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July birthstone: The rare and precious ruby

Along with its close relative, the sapphire, the ruby is a form of the mineral corundum. This mineral is normally drab and gray in color. So a red corundum gemstone is a ruby, and all other colored ...