Island Creek has an eclectic wine list (think Slovenia) carefully chosen for oysters, and other specialties include fried cod cheeks.

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Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island are expected to join the list as early as this week, followed by New Jersey, Oregon, and Washington state.

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Larry Ellison, America's third richest man, can now add "owns 98% of Hawaiian island of Lanai" to his long list of accomplishments.

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Hirauchi Kaichu onsen, the tidal pool in which the man and I were poaching, is on Yakushima, an island whose cedar forest earned a spot on Unesco's World Heritage List (and was the inspiration for Hayao Miyazaki's anime classic "Princess Mononoke").

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