The island nation of Nauru ranks as one of the more obscure world destinations. You have some sense of just how obscure from the CIA's World Factbook. Although the Factbook is normally a fairly authoritative source for information on countries, it lists Nauru's population at around 14,000. This is wrong: The latest census, from the end of 2006, counted 9,275 Nauruans. The Central Intelligence Agency doesn't know how many people live in Nauru. And, frankly, almost certainly doesn't care. Nauru is that out of the way.
- Ethan Klapper
In the southwest corner of Virginia, where tobacco farms meet the Appalachian Mountains, two towns desperately in need of an economic boost were given what many had hoped would be a kick-start: access to high-speed Internet.
- Ethan Klapper