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...night-vision equipment, high-powered water guns, ear-splitting klaxons, and a lubricant foam that make it difficult for pirates to get their footing. For commercial shipping vessels and yachts operating in high-risk areas of Southeast Asia, the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa, such products can mean the difference between smooth sailing and high-seas distress...
...when people think they’re getting away from it all, they find out that they’re really not.RR: If you were going to be trapped on a desert island, who would you want to be with?US: That’s a tough question. I mean, I’d say Wolfgang Puck, ’cause like that man would make the food on the island. [Food] would be my primary concern and I’m quite confident he could whip up some amazing coconut dishes.Tony J. Sterle ’11RR...
...sweat, the sourness of leather and manure. He leaned against the door frame. If she tottered just a step, if she relaxed her taut body just a little, she would touch him. “As you wish, Viscountess,” he said. “I mean not to boast of my prowess, but I am an excellent rider.”Felicity’s mouth went dry. She wagered he was. She asked: “Tell me, will it be hard?”He barely smiled at her this time, just gazed...
...bagel research paper advisor. Dr. Walter Willet, the most cited nutritionist in the world, and his equally illustrious contemporaries were my dinner companions. I was home yet tongue-tied with awe. After arguing for years with my hopelessly carnivorous friends that eating healthfully doesn’t mean sacrificing taste, I finally found myself in a roomful of people who were making their career out of just that philosophy. The Healthy Kitchens’ motto—“See one, do one, teach one”—boils down simply and cleanly to the reversal...
...those who think that definition of freedom may be fine for a priest but constricting for an academic whose findings contradict Church teachings, Benedict had an answer: it's time to reconsider what you mean by truth. "Truth means more than knowledge," he commented. "Only in faith can truth become incarnate and reason truly human." And "the truths of faith and reason never contradict one another." There may be some Catholic educators who have trouble with that simple equation. But for now, they're probably happy that the Pope is bandying words rather than taking action...