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...smooth sailing. As any boatsman knows, the moment something goes into seawater it starts corroding, and soon becomes covered in barnacles and weed. The THG engineers are working on several ideas to combat corrosion, including protective coatings and cathodic protection - attracting corrosive chemicals to electrically charged plates of a dissimilar metal, known as sacrificial anodes, by running a weak electric current through the framework. The blades themselves will be cleaned with every rotation, to avoid a build-up of animal and plant life. Even with its unresolved issues, the system is a huge improvement over past methods of harnessing tidal...
Rather, they carried him to Waltham, Mass., where he came to fill a role not altogether dissimilar from that of many of his former classmates—financial consultant...
...sort of social Darwinism, has a way of making household names out of no-names. Consider the rags-to-riches story of Chaney Sheffield ’02, last year. A former walk-on, Sheffield was tabbed as a last-minute replacement last April amid a starter crunch not dissimilar to this weekend’s. Once he cracked the rotation, he never left, surviving all the way to the title-clinching victory in last May’s Ivy championship series against Princeton...
...gloves are off indeed. Examining the terrorist attacks before and after Bali, a French investigator notes, "it's starting to look like a campaign of terror rather than a series of dissimilar attacks." Within two days last week, there were three terrorist attacks in the Philippines: two in the southern city of Zamboanga, one on a bus in Manila. Combined, they left 10 dead. (A bomb in Zamboanga earlier in the month killed an additional three people, including a U.S. Green Beret commando.) Before Bali, terrorists in Kuwait had killed an American Marine, and a French oil tanker...
...rise. The stock market's heady ascent over the past five years was driven often by faith in the performance of equities on Wall Street rather than by faith in the potential of the companies to earn money on Main Street. Pyramid schemes are based on a not dissimilar psychology - the consensual hallucination that everyone will win as long as everyone keeps buying in. And pyramid schemes always end in tears. Value is ultimately finite and tangible; there'd be no poverty if it could simply be willed into existence...