Reopening Midway

Right now, there are only three ways to get to Midway Atoll, site of a critical World War II battle in the Pacific: take a cruise from Asia, grab a ride with one of the U.S. government employees who work there, or volunteer for three months of environmental duty on the island. But now, AP reports, the Fish and Wildlife Service is working on a plan to reopen Midway to tourism. Access to the island, which is 1,250 miles northwest of Honolulu, was largely cut off after a tourist operator stopped running trips there in 2002.