Loving Our Islands to Death
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By Rosli Zakaria; Elizabeth John; Jessica Lim  PARADISE islands, the honey pot that lures tourist dollars, have long made for idyllic holidays. But could too many visitors be trampling all over this dream? ROSLI ZAKARIA, ELIZABETH JOHN and JESSICA LIM find out.
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Travel: Is Croatia's beautiful Dalmatian coast the next big sailing holiday hotspot, asks Jack Arnott.
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A generation ago, a battle was successfully waged on this rugged island to preserve what was left of its primeval forests, home to giant trees millennia old. Now tourism spawned by this natural heritage is threatening its survival.
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By PETERBOROUGH  AT THIS time of year when all seems doom and gloom, I reminisce about happier times when, as a child growing up, one could find happiness on a beach in Cornwall.   There is a beach at Marazion where my father would take me crabbing as a boy.
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By Erik Robinson, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Feb. 9--Can't get to Hawaii?   The tropical paradise soon may be sending a little piece of the islands past Vancouver.
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Ten of the globe's most perilous places--and what to do if you have to visit one.
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one of the world&#39;s most remote inhabited settlements - came yesterday from a woman who says her island childhood was
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crashed into Sri Lanka and India, drowning hundreds, and swamping tourist islands in Thailand and the Maldives. of Sri Lanka and India and along the southern Thai tourist island of
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A Kyoto-Protocol project is providing the garbage-strewn areas of the so-called island paradise with clean energy. But Indonesia needs more projects like this
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A lot has happened in the other world since Friday. That would be the world outside of Florida. Maybe by sometime today, this area and this state will get back to feeling more like part of that world.
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Rats. Bats. Two-headed cobras and Tibetan three-eyed toads. A runaway train. A violent hurricane. A count who screams, with gleeful wickedness, &quot;You are so deceased!
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By Vanessa Bauza, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Jun. 3--Every summer, Caribbean islands welcome waves of tourists to their sunbaked shores.
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Life can be cramped when you live on a remote cluster of tiny coral islands in the Indian Ocean, so the Maldives has plumped for a novel if seemingly extreme solution -- build a new island from scratch.
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A fully loaded cup yacht hurtling through the ocean in a decent breeze is exhilarating, if not a little frightening. I&#39;m on Emirates Team New Zealand as 18th man for the last match of the day, against Italian challengers +39.
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Much more than hot dogs, beaches and long weekends.
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SANIBEL ISLAND, Fla. - This crescent of sand bathed by the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico is one of Florida&#39;s mythic destinations, a magnet for bird-watchers, seashell gatherers and the simply sun-starved.
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Take three strangers and put them together on a Nassau County beach during Memorial Day weekend.  Add a helpless child, then throw in some treacherous rip currents, and suddenly you have an incredibly inspiring story of heroism.  Real heroism.