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01/19/2010 08:00 AM
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A Pacific Island Challenge to European Air Pollution
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Micronesia, saying that climate change threatened its existence, appealed to the Czech Republic to decommission a coal-fired power plant.
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03/18/2008 07:00 AM
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Debate Over ‘Little People’ Intensifies After Recent Island Discovery
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 Are the bones and a single skull of “little people” the remains of a separate species of the human family or nothing more than modern humans with unusually small bodies.
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03/11/2008 07:00 AM
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Discovery Challenges Finding of a Separate Human Species
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Some scientists say the finding calls into question claims that the first such specimens, from Indonesia, represent a separate human species.
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01/18/2008 08:00 AM
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Pacific Islanders’ Ancestry Emerges in Genetic Study
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An international team of scientists found evidence that Polynesians and Micronesians were more closely related to East Asians, and had few links to western Pacific islanders.
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11/16/2007 08:00 AM
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Pacific Overtures From Mystic Spirits
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 The spectacular, beautifully reinstalled rooms of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Oceanic galleries offer a wonderfully expansive, soul-stirring display.
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08/14/2007 08:00 AM
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Murder Charges Filed in Shooting of Three Leaders of a Missouri Church
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 Prosecutors filed three murder charges against a Micronesian man accused of opening fire inside a church in Neosho, Mo., on Sunday, killing three people.
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09/20/2003 08:00 AM
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U.N. Assembly Calls for Israel To Drop Threat Against Arafat
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United Nations General Assembly emergency sessions approves resolution demanding that Israel rescind threat to deport Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat; minor changes to resolution, vetoed by United States in Security Council, are enough to win support of Germany and Britain, who abstained in council vote; Israel, United States, Micronesia and Marshall Islands vote against measure; main change puts more stress on condemning suicide bombings by Palestinians than extrajudicial killings by Israelis;...
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10/20/1998 08:00 AM
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Gay Philanthropist's Nomination to Become Ambassador to Luxembourg Dies in the Senate
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Senate effectively kills nomination of James C Hormel to be Ambassador to Luxembourg by failing to act on recommendation and allowing it to die, along with those of Kent M Wiedemann to be Ambassador to Cambodia and Diane E Watson to be Ambassador to Federated States of Micronesia; appointment would have made Hormel first openly gay American ambassador
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04/28/1998 08:00 AM
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Nobel Scientist Released
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Dr Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, Nobel Prize-winning scientist, is released after serving a year in Maryland prison for sexually abusing teen-age boy he brought home from research trip to Micronesia
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09/18/1991 07:00 AM
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Saudi Elected by the U.N. Assembly
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Helped by his country's victory in the Persian Gulf war, Saudi Arabia's United Nations representative, Samir Shihabi, surprised many today by easily winning election to the largely ceremonial post of President of the 46th General Assembly. More predictable on the Assembly's opening day were the votes formally admitting North and South Korea, the three newly independent Baltic republics, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia, raising United Nations membership to 166.
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12/24/1990 08:00 AM
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Soviets Yield to U.S. on Pacific Islands' Status
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In a postscript to the end of the cold war, the Soviet Union has allowed the United Nations Security Council to dissolve America's 43-year-old strategic trusteeship over a string of Pacific islands captured from Japan in the closing phases of World War II. For years the Soviet Union threatened to veto any formal bid to terminate American trusteeship over the Northern Marianas, the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands. Moscow had contended that Washington was bullying the isla...
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04/07/1987 08:00 AM
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CHALLENGE TO PACIFIC ARCHEOLOGY
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LEAD: An archaeologist studying Bikini Atoll as part of preparations for returning the atomic bomb test site to its displaced residents has found evidence humans may have inhabited eastern Micronesia thousands of years earlier than previously thought.
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