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...before they arrive at their final U.S. destination, and often their contents come from several locations before they are even loaded into the box. Nearly 40% of all containers shipped to the U.S. are the maritime-transportation equivalent of the back of a UPS van. Intermediaries known as consolidators gather together goods or packages from a variety of customers or even other intermediaries and load them all into the container. They know only what their customers tell them about what they are shipping...
...delicate and the dangerous meet in the ranch lands of South Texas. In the winter, quail gather in the soft gold of prairie sedge, but snakes, scorpions and wild-boar-like javelina lurk too. In 1999 a fourth-generation South Texas rancher named Tobin Armstrong testified before Congress that he sometimes found illegal immigrants dead of dehydration in the unforgiving brush of his 49,300-acre ranch. It was there that Vice President Dick Cheney, out with a hunting party that included Tobin's daughter Katharine, accidentally sprayed attorney Harry Whittington with birdshot. What took place in the hours before...
...weekend’s road games. Given its competition, “difficult” may also be appropriate. The planets have aligned, and the four top-ranked teams of the ECAC—travel partners No. 6 Cornell and Colgate and partners Harvard and Dartmouth—will gather in a shootout that will have postseason implications. The Crimson will face the Raiders in Hamilton, N.Y. tonight, while the Big Green takes on the Big Red in Ithaca. Tomorrow, Harvard and Dartmouth will swap locations. “You’ve got the top four teams playing head...
Positive psychology, meanwhile, was just starting to gather steam as a distinct field within psychology. Back in the 1950s and ’60s, pioneers like Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers had decided that the positive side of human nature was under-represented in psychology, and they wanted to turn their attention instead toward things like self-actualization and happiness. They founded humanistic psychology, but according to Ben-Shahar, the discipline quickly morphed into self-help and pop psychology...
...minutes later that we realized it was the line for the carousel, which none of us wanted to ride (or admit that we did anyway). We had simply seen the line and blindly gotten in it. Lining up has become a natural instinct: I am often tempted to gather a dozen people, line up at nothing, and see how many people join. If you join the end of a line with a beginning you can’t see, how do you know you’re really lining up for anything at all? Have we Americans been outwitted...