Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MARCH 5, 2008
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.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MARCH 8, 2008
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. The Marshall Islands are still suffering as a results of atom bomb tests.
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