By Graham Earnshaw MAJURO, Marshall Islands, Aug 19, Reuter - Politicians in this remote part of the northern Pacific are debating whether to offer one of their radiation-contaminated islands as…
By Graham Earnshaw POHNPEI, Micronesia, Aug 21, Reuter - Even connoisseurs agree that sakau has the consistency of phlegm and the taste of mud pies. But its narcotic qualities have…
By Graham Earnshaw MAJURO, Micronesia, Aug 22, Reuter - If paradise means tiny palm-fringed desert islands set in a turquoise coral sea, then Micronesia in the northern Pacific might be…
By Graham Earnshaw POHNPEI, Micronesia, Aug 23, Reuter - As you approach by boat, the ruins of the mystery city of Nan Madol peek out of the mangrove swamps, conjuring…
By Graham Earnshaw KWAJALEIN ATOLL, Marshall Islands, Aug 26, Reuter - On a lonely atoll in the northern Pacific Ocean, it is literally always yesterday, by order of the United…
By Graham Earnshaw BIKINI ATOLL, Northern Pacific, Aug 25, Reuter - The many movies of recent years set in the post-nuclear war age do not prepare you for Bikini Island.…
By Graham Earnshaw KWAJALEIN ATOLL, North Pacific, Aug 30, Reuter - Fifteen minutes after a Soviet satellite is launched from central Asia, this U.S. base is already trying to determine…
By Graham Earnshaw MAJURO, Marshall Islands, Aug 31, Reuter - Robert Reimers, the richest man in the Marshall Islands, is a mirror of just about everything that has happened in…