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...best way to avoid pirates is to elude them. "The idea is to see them coming while you still have time to escape," says Munich Re Group maritime risk consultant Tillmann Kratz. Frequently pirates armed with street-market AK-47s approach ships posing as fishermen, coast guard officials or harbor police. To ferret out the fakers, ships could send robot snoops like the Sentry, a jet ski-sized remote-controlled scout also developed by QinetiQ. For those who want to send out a stronger deterrent message, there's the "Protector," a 30-foot unmanned surface vessel developed by BAE Systems...
...pedagogical emphasis and “misleading” when presenting MCAS data. And despite improvement, an achievement gap between white and minority students persists. RE-EXAMINING THE GAPCRLS senior Emma L. Shreefter said that she thinks the district takes a “skewed” approach to student achievement. “I think that, ever since I was a freshman, the achievement and push for success is only for certain students—usually by race, gender, and socioeconomic status, which has really bothered me,” said Shreefter, who is also a student representative...
...Harvard China Fund (HCF). The organization, “an internal [Harvard] foundation to support research and teaching about and in China” according to its Web site, hosted the seminar entitled “Reconciling Economic Growth and Air Pollution Control in China: An Integrated Approach.” The event’s speakers included School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Professor Chris P. Nielsen and other researchers working on air pollution and pollution control policies in China. A two-year grant from HCF has allowed the researchers to collaborate with counterparts from China?...
...next big step is a cultural one,” said Lee, who is also a member of the Council. “Adopting a more thoughtful approach to end of life care is really something that has to be discussed in churches, schools, and senior centers...
...First lesson: The seller is going to win, because he invented the game. Friends in the industry tell me that they way to start collecting rugs is to do your homework, by examining catalogs and prices at big auction houses and dealers, then approach smaller shops and look at a lot of rugs. In other words, develop your own expertise. But who has the time? With a job and a social life, no matter how hard I've worked at trying to distinguish between an Iranian Kurdish sumac and an Azeri kilim, there's little chance that I'm going...