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...embrace. Lying between Asia and the rich markets of North America, Australia and New Zealand, the islands are perfectly placed for trans-Pacific smuggling. They're eager to attract tourists and investors, and their undersized police forces and outdated drug laws are easy to exploit. The Philippines, Guam, Palau and the Marianas have long been pit stops for drug and people traffickers, and police have warned for years that South Pacific states are also at risk. Transnational crime syndicates "are highly sophisticated and mobile," says Superintendent Larry Reid, acting national crime manager for the New Zealand police. "Their ability...
...might retain a few dozen more brain cells than my cable-enhanced companions. While I suppose I could be proud of my eccentricity, I have learned from experience that revealing this fun fact about myself is simply not in the same category as double-jointedness or coming from Guam. Unlike an entertaining personal anecdote or funky physical feature, TV-lessness brands you as a black hole in the universe of normal social interaction...
...Patriot Act, most Chinese and South Korean nationals who want to visit the States must show up in person for an interview at an American embassy or consulate. Due to a special waiver program, however, South Koreans can travel visa-free to the U.S. protectorate of Guam...
...disaster response team, founded and headed by Briggs, had previously been deployed to lower Manhattan after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and to Guam after the December 2002 typhoon...
...what do we do instead? We certainly aren’t going to go back to Wigg and eat Cup-Noodles (not every night anyway), and we certainly aren’t going to go to Annenberg, which to us Wiggies might as well be in Guam at 7 p.m. on a Thursday night. Besides, who wants to eat among the immature, the collective bottom rung, sitting at their long tables in their dirty mead hall wondering aloud “Do you think he likes me like that?” while scribbling stars and happy faces on their...