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...45 a.m. for the first midnight of the new millennium. That will arrive on Kiribati, a remote country of 33 Pacific islands between Hawaii and Australia. Then the first major country to follow suit will be New Zealand, as stand-up comic...
...joined thousands of Hindus and Buddhists singing hymns of devotion on the banks of the Ganges River. Residents of the Pacific island nation of Tonga were among the first to greet Jan. 1. At the stroke of midnight, white-clad Tongans by the thousands...
...in a recent interview. Urquhart, who is now retired, recalls having to politely decline a gift from an unnamed Pacific island ambassador to display a prized, stuffed coelacanth -- a prehistoric fish. A decomposing animal, Urquhart remembers...
...000 volunteers from all 50 states, every Canadian province, Central and South America, the Caribbean and several Pacific Islands (areas where breeding birds of North America winter) count and record every bird species encountered during one...
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- The tiny, financially-strapped Pacific Island nation of Tuvalu has cashed in on the alphabetic quirk that assigned it with the ubiquitous ''.tv'' Internet country code...
...law and .arts are added to the dot-com mix. Idealab last week upped the ante by agreeing to pay the South Pacific island nation of Tuvalu (pronounced too-VAH-loo) $50 million in royalties over the next decade for rights to e-mail...
...elected Fiji's first prime minister from its ethnic Indian minority. Speight claims to be acting on behalf of the Pacific island nation's majority ethnic Fijians, and wants to reduce the powers that ethnic Indians can have in the government...
...volunteers from all 50 states and every Canadian province, Central and South America, the Caribbean and several Pacific islands where breeding birds of North America winter will count and record every species encountered on one calendar day within...
...is parts of the 143-ton wreck may be floating just below the water's surface and could wash up on a populated Pacific island. The bad news is any salvaged junk will likely be next to worthless -- even to people like James George, executive...
...Latin American producers, against European importers representing banana growers in the Caribbean, Africa and the Pacific Islands. Those regions have special trade arrangements with Europe dating to colonial days.