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...tell you more about the litany of Georgia's self-inflicted water woes [Nov. 26]. The urbanization (officially known as "revitalization") of Jekyll Island, a barrier-island state park, is moving forward under a full head of steam. Plans include a new convention center, shopping center, hotels, condos, cottages and time-shares.The influx of thousands of visitors will undoubtedly overtax the current water allotment from the Floridan Aquifer. To meet increasing water requirements, Governor Sonny Perdue had better spend more time praying to bring down a deluge of biblical proportions...
FRANK MIRASOLA, President Jekyll Island Citizens Association JEKYLL ISLAND...
...When he was 21 and a fighter pilot in the Marine Corps during World War II, Jefferson DeBlanc Sr. protected his fellow aces by shooting down five Japanese warplanes during a mission over the Solomon Islands--even though his own plane was nearly out of gas and he knew he could not make it back to base. He swam eight miles to an island, where one indigenous tribe traded him to another--which helped ferry him to safety--for a 10-lb. sack of rice. DeBlanc was awarded the Medal of Honor, the Purple Heart and other decorations...
...recent humid morning in Riau, a province on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, a young man named Suranto wakes early on a Sunday, wraps a red T shirt around his head and ambles off to the fields to work. Suranto isn't a local; he has come from northern Sumatra because there are jobs in Riau. The forests and peatlands of the area are being transformed into plantations, and workers are being paid to plant tens of thousands of young oil-palm trees in fields stripped bare of their native vegetation by burning. As Suranto stoops and digs one hole...
...place for flirting and gossip--into one-stop entertainment destinations. "MySpace is your starting point to the Internet," says CEO Chris DeWolfe, who recently rolled out features that let MySpace members play casual games like online poker and watch mini-videos of '80s TV shows like Fantasy Island and Diff'rent Strokes. Facebook has gone even further. In August it sent out an open invitation to software developers to devise new widgets. Three months later, Facebook has some 7,000 free add-on applications that let members do everything from monitor their stock portfolios to map anyplace they've ever...