Hanson wrote "In George Orwell's allegorical novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four," the picture of "Big Brother" appears constantly in the adoring media." He continued, "America is not Oceania, but some of this is beginning to sound a little too familiar."

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Who were the world's first great ocean-going people? The Vikings? The Phoenicians? The Portuguese or Spanish, with their galleons of gold? The Chinese, with their junks?

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The tiny island nation of Nauru, where unemployment hovers at around 90%, has begun elections.

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A Canadian archeologist's discoveries in the South Pacific kingdom of Tonga are rewriting the history of a vast portion of Oceania and tracing the common origins of a host of island peoples -- including Hawaiians, Tahitians, Samoans and New Zealand's Maoris -- to a remote peninsu …

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The New 7 Wonders of the World have been elected from a base of over 100 million votes. Now, it's time to vote for the NOMINEES for the 7 WONDERS OF NATURE. Nomination is open until December 31, 2008.

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Mildewed and damp, they are an incongruous sight in the middle of a jungle. But the three portraits of Britain's Prince Philip, husband to Queen Elizabeth II, are the most prized possessions of a cluster of villages in the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu.

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At dawn, I crossed the border between the bad wild Serbs and the good little Croats in the center of Europe. My Serbian passport was closely scanned by Croatian police -- especially the page with my permanent US visa.

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I hope they've gotten the news out to people that this isn't the real thing.

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More than 3,000 Filipino workers will be sent to New Caledonia to build a $2 billion nickel and cobalt processing plant in the tiny French-owned South Pacific island, the government said Friday.

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