81.   In addition, there also are no dumping fees, which would encourage individuals and businesses to cut down on garbage, and the island has no recycling program.

82.   In some ways, the island already has the trappings of sovereignty.

83.   Instead of a governor, each island will have its own president.

84.   It insists the island has no right to international recognition, and routinely protests visits by Taiwanese leaders to countries that recognize Beijing.

85.   Neither island has a major hospital.

86.   Of the ring of islands with unusual, if not weird, shapes rising steeply from the sea, only four islands have caves accessible to people.

87.   Since the islands have shallow soil, solid rock is just beneath the surface.

88.   Since Taiwan began its campaign to join the WTO, the island has gradually relaxed restrictions on imported tobacco, wine, cars, banking and other service industries.

89.   The central Philippine island has a reputation for political violence.

90.   The Caribbean island has problems with government corruption, a declining economy and violations of human rights and asks for U.N. intervention.