Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge is easily the kind of place you picture when you hear the word "paradise." It is part of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, and is located about halfway between Hawaii and American Samoa. The palm trees bust over the edge of the water like a vase overstuffed with a giant bouquet. Palmyra consists of a remote string of 26 islets nestled among several lagoons and encircled by 15,000 acres of shallow turquoise reefs and deep blue submerged re