21.   Los Angeles Unified School District students performed traditional dances from Samoa, Fiji, Hawaii and other Pacific islands as part of a Hawaiian-style luau.

22.   Most southern Irish are appalled by the sectarian strife in the north, which they blame for scaring away tourists and investors from the island as a whole.

23.   Norwegians have long looked out on their deep fjords, snow-crested peaks and scatterings of scrub-covered islands as soaring symbols of their wilderness culture.

24.   Now cruise directors wait waving placards in the small military airfield on Baltra island as the mass of tourists weave through the last formalities.

25.   Officials now are hoping to lure U.S. and Asian companies to use the islands as a transport and manufacturing site for goods destined for Western Europe and Africa.

26.   On such islands as Taiwan, Tinian and Iwo Jima, teams of Code Talkers helped coordinate movements of U.S. troops and ships.

27.   Others, though, saw the decision to bury her on the small island as curiously appropriate.

28.   Planners envision the island as more than just a place to work, however.

29.   Poets and songwriters lead workshops using the quiet rivers, lakes and islands as inspiration.

30.   Rain and sleet will mix with the snow on Cape Cod and the islands as milder air streams into coastal New England on gale force winds from the northeast.