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"Build a solid, well-diversified core of your portfolio that can thrive in a variety of environments," says Mark Riepe, who runs the Schwab Center for Financial Research, a unit of brokerage Charles Schwab Corp.

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"If some type of incident happens in the street, don't stand and watch as part of the crowd," Riepe says.

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Mr. Riepe pronounced REE-pee had piloted his 22-foot motorboat, the Oystercatcher, through a reach of shallows called the cow patch and now began to putter beneath the Cross Bay Bridge.

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"It's just a beautiful, natural ecosystem in the middle of this huge metropolitan area," said Don Riepe, a suntanned 71-year-old who has lived on the bay since 1981 and has held the title of

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GUARDIAN Don Riepe, checking on an osprey nest, has lived on Jamaica Bay since 1981.

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GUARDIAN Don Riepe, near an osprey nest, has lived on Jamaica Bay since 1981.

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When Mr. Riepe arrived at JoCo Marsh, the largest and best preserved salt-grass section of the bay, hundreds of birds - Forster's terns, laughing gulls, osprey, willets, herons - were revolving in a circle over the water, a great avian feeding wheel feasting on marine life.

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"You really get a sense out here," Mr. Riepe said, "how this beautiful thing, the bay, sits on the cusp of the huge, globally important thing at the airport."

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Mr. Riepe lives in Broad Channel, in a small house on the water, with a small back deck where he takes his morning orange juice and a private dock at which he moors his boat.

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It was 5 o'clock on a recent Sunday evening, and everything that Mr. Riepe described was serenely on display: the sea grass swayed, the horseflies buzzed, the bright blue buoys marking crab traps bobbed in silence on the darker, bluer surface of the bay.

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