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...Each mother ship and raider requires high- end GPS, radar and sonar. The best radars available for small ships run about $4,000. High end GSP system cost about $1,500, and sonar systems a little less than $1,000. All of the equipment runs about $400,000 for 12 trawlers and 50 raiders before installation costs. Once again, this is not an annual cost because most of the hardware can be used for several years...
...total of $173,000 because each of 500 men is armed. The price for 9MM pistols on the black market runs about $200, for a total of $100,000. Browning 50 caliber machine guns are $14,000 each, with at least one per raider and two per mother ship for a total cost of just over $1 million. Rocket propelled grenades which are used in most raids run $3,000 and one is used in each of the 400 hijacking attempts for a total of $1.2 million. Total ammunition costs at $1 per bullet...
...sparkling reviews. In many ways, the author’s own path has matched her approach to writing. Though published at first only in South Africa, the novel boasted a blurb by Nobel Prize winning South African novelist J. M. Coetzee, and quickly began receiving attention. Dovey, whose mother had written one of the first scholarly treatments of Coetzee’s work, called it a “miracle.” Since then, the book has been met with widespread acclaim, and has been published or is awaiting publication in 17 countries. Dovey’s literary success...
...It’s about brains,” said Michele S. Jaffe ’91. Now an author of young adult novels, Jaffe entered the world of fiction through her romance novels, which Amazon.com called “steamy… Do not lend this to your mother.”“The sex scenes are designed to turn you on,” she said. For Jaffe, the fact that she was a Harvard graduate served to help market her books because of the perceived incongruity between sex and intellect.Camilla A. Hrdy...
...view of girls who feel really at home there... Becky Miller is certainly within that world, but she feels a little out of place. “Kaplan said she signed her book deal with HarperCollins in the summer after her sophomore year, following a book party, where her mother introduced her to an editor.Her mother, Susan Estrich, was the first female president of the Harvard Law Review, and is now a political commentator for Fox News. Her father, Martin H. Kaplan ’71, is associate dean of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and a former White...