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Perhaps Americans are by now waking up to the humbling fact that the world has only one superpower: the climate. Barry Weightman Port Vila, Vanuatu...
...living in Iran. Saeedlou admitted that Hartford (no relation to the University of Hartford) is an online institution. State education authorities in Oregon who monitor so-called diploma mills have had their eye on for-profit Hartford University, which is registered in the tiny Pacific offshore banking haven of Vanuatu and offers courses leading to undergraduate and graduate degrees that can cost thousands of dollars. Saeedlou's diploma didn't do him much good. The members of Iran's Parliament voted to block his appointment. --By Adam Zagorin
...Over a two-year period after the outbreak of hostilities in Europe in September 1939, Royal Australian Navy Commander Eric Feldt established a network of 100 Coastwatcher stations in a 4,000-km arc from the western border of Papua New Guinea to Vila in the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu...
...Bismarck Archipelago in the west, to Samoa in the east, is like a trail of breadcrumbs across the Pacific, left by these colonizing explorers as they moved with their retinue of plants and animals through the islands. Though evidence of its country's founding culture has been discovered in Vanuatu before, the story is far from complete, and when he heard of the driver's find, Ralph Regenvanu, the head of Vanuatu's Cultural Centre and National Museum, asked Spriggs and another ANU archaeologist, Stuart Bedford, to assess the site...
...Chief Tom Numake was a tupunis once, until he set aside the powers he inherited from his father and chose the Bible 30 years ago. A former president of Vanuatu's National Council of Chiefs, he is among the most senior of Tanna's 300 chiefs in a community where such men still wield great power. It was his idea to make Tanna the only island to record its kastom law in writing, a feat it completed in 1995, and though he worships in a church, at the same time Numake lives very much as kastom dictates. He embodies...