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[Lenny was] wreaking havoc on St. Maarten and adjacent islands, ... in a very dangerous situation.

Dennis Richardson
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Generally the other islands need either more modern cables or competition. They need an alternative to the existing cables.

Georges Krebs
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787 basically wiped out most of the islands that were close to Albany. When they built 787, they filled it all in.

Don Rittner
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Some of these islands are going down fast. If we want this for something beyond our present generation ... we're going to have to take care better care of it.

Stanley Riggs
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George had a long love affair with the islands.

Ginger Davis
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Suddenly, the government of India has taken a very keen interest in these far-flung islands.

Samir Acharya
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It's such an incredible event. For the first time in 50 years they did it themselves. It's a new age for the islands.

David Garcelon
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Cape Breton is one of the world's most beautiful islands, boasting this world-class golf course.

Chris Santella
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There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.

George Borrow
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Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation.

David Quammen
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It's always heartening when people are committed to conserving their land. Bob and Catherine have made a great contribution to the Islands and to future generations.

Lincoln Bormann
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I've been telling people there are seven islands in Island County. And people were telling me, 'No, there's six.

Roger Sherman
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Together, we have full coverage on the islands.

Helen Sosso
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The more we have growth along our beaches and barrier islands, shelter is always going to be an issue.

Cathy Haynes
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The brain breaks down into little islands that can't talk to one another.

Giulio Tononi
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When the war started, this group was sent to the Aleutian Islands near Siberia.

Phillip Levine
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The success of this nest brings hope that we will reestablish bald eagles on the Channel Islands. All Americans can share in the excitement of this historic event.

Russell Galipeau
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The bad side of it is a big chunk of our barrier islands will be gone.

Stanley Riggs
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I don't want to go to the Bahamas on holiday. I hate islands. I want to go to Brittany, where it's cold and raining, and there's nothing fancy about it.

Julie Delpy
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It is immensely worse as far as damage to the shoreline and beachfront retreat, ... goes across the islands very quickly.

Orrin Pilkey
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But he happened to run into Caribbean islands [full of] gold. The gold had actually come to the surface and was in the rivers. It was very easily accessible.

Patricia Seed
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In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.

J. Donald Walters
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We've seen bookshelves, drawers and open shelving in the islands.

Rebecca Jones
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It's like when there is a tropical depression off the Leeward Islands. We need to pay attention. A disaster could be coming our way.

Dr. Judith Hartner
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These are appealing islands for boaters. I don't think people appreciate how much harm they do.

Norm Brunswig
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Our entire livelihood is based on passengers coming in here, and there are a lot of islands competing that are cheaper and easier to get to. If you add in a hassle factor, are they going to return?

Joanne Bohr
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I have had students from as far away as the South Pacific Islands to Sicily.

Allen Moore
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A decision that is going to materially effect the Cape and the islands should be made in Massachusetts.

Ernie Corrigan
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We in the Virgin Islands work hard, but we play hard, too.

Edward Thomas
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