By
Marc Peraino
Created:
Friday, July 9, 2010 - 6:33 PM
Last updated:
Thursday, June 2, 2011 - 6:03 PM
The smallest island nation in the world has floundered economically since its phosphate reserves were depleted, the island's only natural resource. But a new and unimagined plan has come to Nauru, one that will place the island in the history books forever and force the world to think long and hard about an age-long human tradition.