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Lifeguards Meaghan Cyr (background, left) and Steve Leavitt at a Beverly beach last week.

Lifeguard jobs lose their summer cachet

Beaches unmonitored as chairs go unfilled

By Keith O'Brien
Globe Staff / July 2, 2007

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BEVERLY -- It is the iconic symbol of summertime cool: the lifeguard, tanned and buff, keeping watch over the shoreline from behind dark sunglasses. Come summer, lifeguards are the gods of the beaches, paid to sit in the sun, and historically that has been enough to leave Massachusetts teens clamoring to be one of them. (Full article: 1247 words)

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