Word: archipelagos
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...geared for the masses. While living in Scotland a few years ago, I was one of those. I wanted to travel to the farthest reaches of Great Britain, far away from Stonehenge and Loch Ness. I traced my finger on the map and landed on the Shetland Isles, an archipelago that lies at the intersection of the North Sea and North Atlantic Ocean, 180 miles northeast of Scotland...
...Across the archipelago, manufacturers big and small are cutting salaries, asking workers to job-share and shuttering facilities. A decade ago, fewer than 20% of manufacturers had operations overseas; today the number is 35% and climbing. In most cases, the jobs are moving to China. All the parts for Sony's market-leading PlayStation video-game console and its final assembly take place there. In fact, of more than 1,000 companies surveyed by the Japan External Trade Organization, 42% said they are considering shifting some or all of their manufacturing operations to the mainland. Labor is cheap, of course...
...essential for America to recognize and accommodate the sensitivities of foreign peoples. Until the United States granted the Philippines independence in 1946, the archipelago had been under Western control for centuries. Even after the nation achieved independence, the United States maintained a massive naval and marine base at Subic Bay until 1992, when the Philippine government refused to renew a lease agreement. So resented were the years of foreign domination and so unpopular was the United States’ presence that the Philippine constitution still does not allow foreign combat forces onto Philippine soil. While the United States...
...Noting the lack of Indonesian border controls and the recent flood of Afghan refugees, the commander in chief of U.S. military forces in the Pacific warned on an early December swing through the region that al-Qaeda members fleeing Afghanistan might attempt to set up new bases on the archipelago, given the presence of "sympathetic groups." Admiral Dennis Blair said U.S. intelligence was looking very hard at Laskar Jihad...
...size of Delaware, with a population of 3 million exuberant Hindus. To the west of Bali, separated by a strait of just several hundred yards, is the island of Java, which is about the size of California, with a population of 100 million Muslims. Stretching east is an archipelago with hundreds of small to medium-sized islands, islands with names like Sumba, Sumbawa, Lombok, Flores, Komodo, the legendary Spice Islands, Timor, and the island of Irian Jaya (New Guinea). These areas have mixed populations of Muslims, Christians, and animists. Virtually every inhabited island in Indonesia has its own language...