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Pia Lopez: Debate over school's namesake is a real teaching moment
April 21, 2012

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Man found murdered in Kalihi was a father of five
December 30, 2011 | KHON Fox 2

Marshall Islands First Lady Visits NWA To Promote Outreach Program
September 26, 2011 | KFSM CBS 5 Fort Smith, AR

Ark. Marshallese Community Members Worried About Island Relatives
March 12, 2011 | KHBS ABC 40 Fort Smith AR

Marshall Islands Wikipedia Information

The Marshall Islands, officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), is a Micronesian island nation in the western Pacific Ocean, located north of Nauru and Kiribati, east of the Federated States of Micronesia and south of the U.S. territory of Wake Island, to which it lays claim.

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Pacific Islands Face Severe Water Threat, new report says
April 23, 2012
BANGKOK, April 23, 2012 - Climate change will exacerbate water stress in Pacific Islands, particularly small islands that rely on seasonal rain for their...

Nuclear legacy in the Marshall Islands: "Nomads in their own country" – UN Expert
March 30, 2012
MAJURO/GENEVA, March 30, 2012 - United Nations Special Rapporteur Calin Georgescu warned Friday that the communities affected by nuclear testing over sixty years...

Marshall Islands calls on UN to acknowledge past history on nuclear testing
September 27, 2011
Sept. 26, 2011 - The United Nations has failed to accept the consequences of the decisions it took on nuclear testing in the 1950s, and the people of the...

From around the web

USS Iowa battleship becoming a naval museum
May 13, 2012 | DesMoinesRegister.com
During World War II, when transferred to the Pacific Fleet in 1944, the ship shelled beachheads at Kwajalein and Eniwetok in advance of Allied amphibious landings and screened aircraft carriers operating in the Marshall Islands ...

Japanese Ship Violates Shark Fishing Ban - The fishing vessel has been fined $ 125,000,...
February 25, 2012 | reddit.com: what's new online
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Russia Accuses US Of Sabotaging Mars Spacecraft [ Space ]
January 17, 2012 | Gizmodo
Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin says the United States may have rendered their Phobos-Grunt Mars spacecraft useless using a radar installation on the Marshall Islands. More...

Marshall Islands on twitter

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	RT @NASAJPL: A black hole hunter, @NASANuSTAR, is scheduled to launch no earlier than June 13 from the Marshall Islands http://t.co/bmsJTu4S Twitter: @leadsinger
	RT @NASAJPL: A black hole hunter, @NASANuSTAR, is scheduled to launch no earlier than June 13 from the Marshall Islands http://t.co/bmsJTu4S Twitter: @DeXimE
	RT @NASAJPL: A black hole hunter, @NASANuSTAR, is scheduled to launch no earlier than June 13 from the Marshall Islands http://t.co/bmsJTu4S Twitter: @Trojerucica
	RT @NASAJPL: A black hole hunter, @NASANuSTAR, is scheduled to launch no earlier than June 13 from the Marshall Islands http://t.co/bmsJTu4S Twitter: @zenmart