Lava and Oahu: Fighting Sin in Paradise
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NBC's "Hawaii" is not a great cop show. But it has well-choreographed action and an amusingly campy feel.
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By Erika Beras And Tim Chapman, The Miami Herald  Jun. 25--A popular place of worship for North Miami Beach's Haitian community was damaged by fire Monday morning.   The blaze broke out a little after 11 a.m. at the First Haitian Baptist Church of North Miami Beach at 15395 N.
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Some of the world's most treasured destinations are in peril. Many are being trashed by mass tourism, with an assist from indifferent government policies and greedy developers. Among them:  _Easter Island.
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SYDNEY -- When Fletcher Christian and his crew of Bounty mutineers landed 214 years ago on tiny Pitcairn Island, its remote location halfway between New Zealand and Peru made it the perfect place to hide. Its isolation has protected the little colony's customs -- some quaint and some sinister -- ever since.
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GALLE, Sri Lanka  - At first, American tourist  Matthew O'Connell thought the rising sea was the sign of a good  day's surfing ahead.
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It was the closest that Pitcairn had ever come to civil insurrection. The spark was the Clipper Odyssey, an American cruise ship that anchored offshore so that passengers could tour the island immortalised by the Bounty mutineers.
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By Brian J. Pedersen, Arizona Daily Star
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Many people in religious circles say it's one of the biggest problems facing families and congregations.  Yet:  It can go undetected.  It has no outward signs.  It is barely discussed.  The culprit? Pornography.  The Rev.
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By Julie Sevrens Lyons, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Dec.
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Half the adult males in Pitcairn, the tiny island community created by Fletcher Christian, are going on trial over sex abuse. Kathy Marks reports.
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Foreign tourists from Phi Phi Islands arrive in Phuket, December 26, 2004 after the area was hit by a devastating tsunami. One of the most powerful earthquakes in history hit Asia on Sunday, unleashing a tsunami
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Sunday started out like any other at Thailand&#39;s Phuket island resort: It was idyllic. Sun-worshippers soaked up the rays; others frolicked on the beach.
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Sure, there's plenty of fire at this year's Burning Man festival, but celestial tributes dominate the playa. Daniel Terdiman reports from Black Rock City, Nevada.
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SYDNEY, Australia - Six men were convicted of a string of sex attacks on Pitcairn Island, the isolated Pacific territory that is home to descendants of the 18th century Bounty mutineers, after trials that exposed a culture of sex abuse in the tiny
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Given at the University of Regensburg on Sept. 12, 2006
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Sanctified and churchified, the area north of downtown is paradise -- you should pardon the expression -- for spiritual wanderers. It being Super Bowl week and all, these included not only those wandering in the spirit, but also those wandering because of the spirits. Find redemption, and then find your car.
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PITCAIRN ISLAND -- A series of sex abuse trials has opened on Pitcairn Island, the isolated British territory in the Pacific that is home to descendants of the 18th-century mutineers of the British ship HMS Bounty. The first alleged victim said she was raped as a young girl by the island's mayor.