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Comment Warning! Pendantry Ahead! (Score 1) 185

by randomiam on Monday January 14, 2008 @05:27PM (#22041008) Attached to: Filming an Invasion Without Extras

Beady eyed pendant? As a pedant with perfectly normal eyes, I take offense!

Also, wasn't the Nicole Richie remark an eating disorder joke? Doesn't she have an eating disorder? If not, she should get one, if only to help make /. less incorrect.

ria

Inhabited Island Vanishes Forever Underwater 408

Posted by Zonk on Monday December 25, 2006 @05:42AM from the seeya-later-island-guy dept.

PhreakOfTime writes "For the first time the rising ocean levels have washed away an inhabited island. Lohachara island was at one point home to some 10,000 people. It, along with several other spits of land near the Indian mainland, is now permanently underwater. From the article: ' As the seas continue to swell, they will swallow whole island nations, from the Maldives to the Marshall Islands, inundate vast areas of countries from Bangladesh to Egypt, and submerge parts of scores of coastal cities. Eight years ago ... the first uninhabited islands - in the Pacific atoll nation of Kiribati - vanished beneath the waves. The people of low-lying islands in Vanuatu, also in the Pacific, have been evacuated as a precaution, but the land still juts above the sea. The disappearance of Lohachara, once home to 10,000 people, is unprecedented.'"

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