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• History's biggest oil spill despoils the French shorelineLike a grotesque, hook-shaped inkblot, the oil spread menacingly across the water.
• The Japanese took the deep, hook-shaped harbor of Rabaul just 45 days after their attack on Pearl Harbor.
• The main activity on this hook-shaped archipelago of islands is, as you might expect, taking in its natural beauty.