Friday, March 07, 2003

For the past two months, a country has been missing

The tiny island country of Nauru (population: 10,000) lost their phone system in early January and had been cut off from the rest of the world until an Australian engineer fixed their phone system this past week. As if this wasn’t strange enough, well…read about the history and present problems of Nauru. It involves phosphate, London musicals, and Iraqi refugees – ‘nuf said.

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