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...walk me through a typical day on the boat? It changed day to day, depending on where I was in the ocean. If I was near the shore, I had to worry about fishing boats, local traffic and shifting winds. If I'm in the trade winds, it's pretty much like doing whatever it is you do at your house, because you set the sail and don't touch the line for three weeks at a time. The wind comes in the same direction for months. When you're doing that, you get your eight or 12 hours...
...more stressful days, too - including, I believe, dodging pirates near Indonesia. Yeah, definitely. The hour when I had the pirate vessel coming down on me was probably the longest of my life. Then in the Indian Ocean I had to stay up for three or four days, trying to keep the forestay up to keep the mast from falling backwards. I was being told by the best riggers in the business that I could quite possibly lose the mast, which probably would have meant a stop to the trip...
...years, especially pertaining to nuclear and defense cooperation, but also on issues ranging from education and agriculture to health and women's rights. She also indicated the Administration's intention of supporting India as it readies to play a bigger role in regional and global affairs. But as a near war of words over climate change showed, there is much ground to cover between rhetoric and reality, and the fledgling "strategic partnership" is not likely to be an easy...
...Power market research. According to Pawan Goenka, president of Mahindra & Mahindra's automotive business in Mumbai, "The challenge is to make the economics work in a price-sensitive Indian market." For electric cars, "performance and range are major bottlenecks," he says. (Read "Coming to an Ex-Car Dealer Near You: Pickups from India...
That is, if they have enough resources to handle all the students. Chronically cash-starved, two-year schools pull in an average of just 30% of the federal funding per student allocated to state universities - though they educate nearly the same number of undergraduates. (Even after you account for the academic research that goes on at four-year schools, experts say community colleges still get shafted.) Two-year schools have been growing faster than four-year institutions, with the number of students they educate increasing more than sevenfold since 1963, compared with a near tripling at four-year schools...