Previous shipwrecks on the islands had brought mussels and "none of them got established".
Several previous studies have linked shipwrecks and reef degradation, but researchers in Hawaii decided to measure the effect in detail.
An ex-addict and activist for more than four decades, he founded the organization to fight both addiction and AIDS, and he's seen many previous addiction activist groups shipwrecked by failure to agree on specific goals.
This is the tenth novel from Louis Begley, the Polish-born author whose previous books include "About Schmidt," "Shipwreck," and the PEN/Hemingway Award-winning "Wartime Lies".
Orson Welles calls old age "a shipwreck".
This time the 48-year-old has made it farther than in previous voyages, which were foiled by malfunction and shipwreck.
Villagers begins when a group of people are shipwrecked on a small island whose previous inhabitants have left behind a few houses and some mysterious ruins.
The shipwreck theme has resonance: five years ago, the restaurant's previous incarnation, Crave Ceviche Bar, was shut after being damaged in the collapse of a 19-story tower crane, considered one of the worst construction accidents in New York City history.
The Mahavastu cites a previous birth in which Kaundinya was a seafaring merchant who had lost all his wealth after a mid-ocean shipwreck.
