Only the mosque and a handful of other buildings remained- amid a sea of broken concrete, splintered wood and twisted metal.

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Broken into four smaller squads, the Sea Gals left their posts at the corners of the end zones only to perform full-group numbers between quarters.

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She has a kind of glowing-pebble night-light that changes colors very slowly, and she is lying in this sea of stuff: books and broken Nintendos and inflatable Bratz cushions and God knows what else except, from somewhere deep inside the heap, her breathing.

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The name comes from an ancient legend about a woman named Phranang who hoped that this island would act as a wedding suite for her and her new husband, but he was lost at sea and she died waiting for him, broken-hearted.

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The silence was broken only by the wind in the trees and the waves of the bordering sea.

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Analysing the sea in this way might prove useful, too, in rescuing people whose boats have broken down or in locating the wreckage of aircraft that have crashed in mid-ocean.

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"It was a raging sea in here, " he said, pointing to 3-foot-high water marks, a broken door.

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As I wandered, the still air was broken by the sound of roaring engines, while at the harbour, a dozen speedboats powered their way out to sea.

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