Picking Up The Pieces Vol. 7 No. 7 July 2023 | Page 3

Vol . 7 No . 07 What we have this month July 2023

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VOL . 7 GUAM • PALAU CNMI • FSM NO . 07
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JULY 2023
Guam in recovery mode after Mawar left a trail of devastation www . pacificislandtimes . com
Rising from the rubble
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The storms that battered Guam
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From the Publisher ’ s Desk
Till the next typhoon 4
Insights These Islands : The first-strike jurisdiction 6 Pacific Reflections : Anchor babies 7 Yes & Know : Lessons from Mawar 8 Live from Saipan : The first Liberation Day 9
Military Microreactor on Guam 10
Policy Marine monument expansion nixed 12
Technology Storm in the digital age 14
Around the Pacific
Corruption : An incurable malady in the Pacific ?
FSM and China are friends again
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Uncertainty in New Caledonia
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Teaching how to think
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China eyeing Palau ’ s fiber optic
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Micronesian art and daily living
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Life
Lessons : Rethinking analog
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Post-storm surrealism
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Bookshelf Meeting a poet 28
Art
Finding roots in Guam
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Art Therapy : Count the “ B ” word
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