USDA: Glitch With Foreign SS Numbers Fixed Nov 3, 2009
The Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Republic of Palau all have their own Social Security systems, but the USDA and several other agencies have treated numbers issued by the three nations as if they were U.S. numbers, regardless of whether they were already in use. That can create headaches similar to identity theft when identities become linked in the eyes of lenders or creditors. (Click2Houston, TX)
General Assembly urges end to embargo on Cuba Oct 30, 2009
Only Israel and tiny Palau supported the United States, while Micronesia and the Marshall Islands abstained. The margin of opposition to the US embargo has grown steadily since 1992, when 59 countries voted in favour of the resolution. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
UN General Assembly urges end to US embargo on Cuba Oct 29, 2009
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UN calls for end to U.S. embargo on Cuba Oct 29, 2009
Only the United States, Israel and Palau voted against the non-binding resolution, while Micronesia and the Marshall Islands abstained. Over 17 consecutive years since 1992, a majority in the United Nations General Assembly have supported lifting the unilateral U.S. embargo. (Xinhuanet, China)
* World News Quick Take Oct 27, 2009
MARSHALL ISLANDS Zedkaia wins election Traditional chief Jurelang Zedkaia was elected president by a slender 17-15 margin yesterday, replacing Litokwa Tomeing, who was ousted in a no-confidence vote last week. Zedkaia, the parliamentary speaker in the Tomeing government, was elected in a swift ballot of legislators that took less than 15 minutes to end days of tense lobbying. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Dem explores bid for McCain seat Oct 18, 2009
taken with a tripod and timer on his summer Marshall Islands adventure, attracted widespread national attention after it appeared on the Washington Post's Web site along with excerpts from his island diary. The Arizona Republic reported Sept. 6 that Flake spent a primitive week alone on an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, dining on fish and coconuts. (AZCentral -- News)
Q&A: US missile defence Sep 17, 2009
It hopes that construction of the Czech facility - using a radar currently located at Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands - could begin next year, with the first interceptors in place in Poland by 2011 and the system fully operational by 2012. Why in Eastern Europe. (BBC News -- Europe)
Sweetener May Prevent Cavities in Toddlers Jul 10, 2009
But they used an oral syrup containing xylitol in their study, which involved 94 participants between 9 and 15 months of age who live in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, where early childhood tooth decay is a serious public health problem ... Health officials in the Marshall Islands didn't allow researchers to use a placebo, so the control group received some xylitol ... Peter Milgrom, DDS, and colleagues at the University of Washington and in the Marshall Islands say their results show for... (CBS News -- Health)
Fiji, Facing Suspension From Pacific Forum, Rejects Calling New Elections May 1, 2009
Along with Fiji, Australia and New Zealand it includes Tonga, the Cook Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, the Marshall Islands, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and Vanuatu. To contact the reporter on this story: in Sydney at. (Bloomberg -- Australia & New Zealand)
U.S. seeks seat on U.N. Human Rights Council Apr 2, 2009
The other three nations were Israel, Marshall Islands and Palau. But the council was created with an overwhelming 170 nations in support of it. (CNN -- World)
Bad science and politics go together Feb 10, 2009
jeroze wrote on Feb 9, 2009 8:32 PM:" I am in the middle of the experiment of the glass with water and ice that HFRMACK suggested. I expect for the level of the water to go down and not up, since when I put water in the ice cube trays the level of the ice cubes rise higher than the level of the water was before the tray was put in the freezer. But I still have 3 hours and 30 minutes before I can report the final outcome.But, what about the 60 Minutes program a few months back which featured what... (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
Solomons declares floods disaster Feb 7, 2009
Since December, flooding has also hit the Pacific island nations of Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Micronesia and the Marshall Islands, forcing tens of thousands of islanders to flee their homes. The Solomons has a population of about 500,000 mainly ethnic Melanesians, spread across hundreds of islands, which gained independence from Britain in 1978. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
