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Guam and the Consortium

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The final stop for my Micronesia trip was Guam, a U.S. Arriving on Guam felt like coming back to the United States, although it's more like Hawaii than the mainland! Guam has a huge American military presence: the armed forces control about a third of the island. The military and tourism are Guam's two big industry.

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Reflections on Micronesia

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I think it's one of the great perks of my job, working in the nonprofit sector. Guam has special building codes for typhoons, kind of like California's earthquake-inspired building codes. Waste disposal is hard on these tiny islands. On most of the islands, you could see wrecked cars left more or less where they expired.