1.   The buildings gathered themselves into the rock which plunged straight into the ground, like an island into the sea.

2.   The boys are becoming more evil and corrupt as they divide the island into three units.

3.   He then subdivided the island into residential lots.

4.   How to fully integrate a Spanish-speaking island into the United States is a legitimate subject of debate.

5.   Instead, we get a glimpse of a competitive, driven and dumbfoundingly successful man who parlayed a few weeks on an island into a fortune.

6.   It proposes turning a large rectangular building in the middle of the island into a conference center and a family hotel.

7.   Later, nesting areas were destroyed as construction successively transformed the island into a fort, a military prison and, finally, a maximum-security federal penitentiary.

8.   Neither has the government made clear to Jeju residents why it is suddenly bent on reinventing their island into a new frontier of large-scale commercialism.

9.   That worries residents, who say the all-inclusives have helped to turn the island into Anyplace, Caribbean.

10.   The mainland staged several rounds of military exercises off Taiwan to show its displeasure that Lee was trying to steer the island into independence.