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...1970s costs about $1 million. A trawler that is ten years old costs closer to $3 million. Some of the trawlers the pirates use were probably seized during their raids. Most research indicates that one out of three attempts by the pirates to hijack a ship succeeds. Covering enough ground to seize 120 vessels a year based on 400 attempts means that the pirates are probably running a dozen mother ships at any one time. The costs to "buy" and maintain those ships is about $3 million each per year, because a trawler that is seized...
...Harvard captain delivered, poking a ground ball through the right side of the infield for a single...
...most of the season, Black appeared right at home in the starting rotation, as she paced the Crimson through seven innings.But things would have been different had Harvard’s defense failed to back her up. The Crimson was airtight both in the air and on the ground, giving Black all the help she needed.The highlight of this strong defensive performance came when it counted most in the top of the sixth inning. With the Crimson hanging on to a 1-0 lead, Bulldog junior Ashley Sloan reached on a leadoff single. Then Black lost control, rocketing a pitch...
...Somalia's extreme poverty and lack of effective central government make it an ideal breeding ground for piracy, and the Cold War's end helped make it possible. Like Afghanistan, Somalia was for decades a rope in the tug-of-war between the Soviet Union and the U.S., later abandoned and left to rot as the superpowers' rivalry ebbed. It's the latest warning that the 21st century's dangers are more likely to come from failed states and their desperate young men rather than modern militaries boasting flotillas of warships, formations of tanks and fleets of aircraft...
...claimed the lives of 300,000 people and displaced more than 2.5 million in Darfur? While the International Criminal Court has indicted the president of Sudan, Omar El-Bashir, the Arab League has rushed to support him. This Arab reaction is shamefully self-interested and dangerously lays the ground open not for “never again” but instead for “once more...