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Variations | It’s yesterday once more (shoo-be-doo-da-day)

IN 1991, when the local economy was still thriving, the education commissioner told CNMI officials that public schools might shut down. Why? Because, MV reported, “there is nobody to pick up the garbage at the schools.” Why? Because the central government allotted an annual budget of $10,000 (worth…
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BC’s Tales of the Pacific | Vulnerable World Theory

IMAGINE a barrel of several hundred ping-pong balls, mostly colored white, some gray, and a few black.  The balls are human inventions, with the white ones being good inventions, the grey denoting inventions with mixed effects, and the black ones being disasters that destroy civilization.  Now imag…
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The Tinian Civilian-Military Advisory Council

VETERANS Day was the perfect day for this veteran to remember how and why Tinian’s representatives to the Covenant negotiations worked with their colleagues from Saipan and Rota to develop not only the Covenant that created the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, but also its Technical Ag…
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