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...usually more than $2 million for a container ship or oil tanker. Then the cash is air-dropped by private security companies that specialize in delivering ransoms to Somali pirates; insurance brokers say that's only about three companies. "The money is concealed in large floating plastic containers, and flown by air and dropped," says Mike Regester, an insurance broker for the London company Cooper Gay, which covers oil and shipping companies for kidnap and ransom. "Then the pirates go out and pick it up," he says...
...government, meanwhile, announced on Thursday that it had revoked Thaksin's passport a day after the ASEAN summit debacle. Thaksin is believed to be living in Dubai, but the English-language daily The Nation reported on Thursday that a Dubai newspaper wrote he had flown to Africa. The government of Nicaragua also issued a statement that it had granted Thaksin a passport earlier this year to serve as a "special envoy" to seek investment for that country...
...definitely a drawback. "Financially, the state of Michigan would have been happy if there were four teams out of state," says Jason Winfree, a University of Michigan sports economist. If, say, UCLA had made the Final Four instead of Michigan State, thousands of the school's fans would have flown to Detroit to spend money. All of that cash is a windfall to the struggling state - without the Final Four, none of those Californians and UCLA fans throughout the nation were heading to Michigan to hang out for the weekend (OK, a handful might have family or some other reason...
Encouraging parental interaction on Facebook waives the right to privacy so that people must alter their profiles. Certain things that could have flown when it was a college-only website are no longer permissible now that Mom’s looking over your shoulder and companies and schools are researching profiles. Profiles without some degree of self-censorship are becoming increasingly rare, but some people still aren’t cottoning on; when my brother interviewed a few prospective Harvard freshmen this year, he was surprised to see that they hadn’t bothered to restrict access to their...
...Lauer, Matt • bicycle of is flown off of by, resulting in separated shoulder of, after encounter of with unexpected deer...