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...September, negotiations to obtain the crew's release had foundered. The hijackers had increased their ransom demand and reneged on an agreement to allow the rice to be handed over to the Somali government. When the Semlow's generator ran out of oil, the pirates accused the crew of hoarding it. One Somali fired a shot through the window on the bridge. "We thought this trip was the end of our lives," remembered able seaman Rashid Juma Mwatuga, 42. In late September the Ibn Batuta, an Egyptian ship carrying cement, appeared on the horizon. "The pirates told me they were...
...Ross said. The insurance offers a range of services, including emergency medical care in remote locations and evacuation in cases of natural disaster or civil unrest. In addition to emergency assistance, SOS provides non-emergency medical and dental referrals and can also arrange for students and employees to obtain travel documents, cash, and traveler’s checks. SOS also offers a translation service. “Over the last few years looking at and reevaluating our programs, I felt with more and more travel going on around the university, this was something that would supplement the insurance already...
...continue along that path, the security margin we have is almost fictional,” ElBaradei said. Much of ElBaradei’s talk centered around terrorism. He asserted that terrorists pose a serious threat, but that it remains difficult for them to actually obtain the materials and assemble a true nuclear weapon. The speech’s moderator, Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Graham T. Allison ’62, and audience members drilled ElBaradei on the status of the IAEA’s investigations into nuclear weapons in Iran. The IAEA has drawn...
...sports—all of which require strong interpersonal skills. Institutionalized relationships—like marriage and sports teams—are important precisely because they feel more secure than non-institutionalized ones. This is why we need real House communities: so the students who find it difficult to obtain social security, so to speak, are guaranteed the chance...
Zakharevich said she first encountered sudoku in a book that she purchased on a whim. After completing only two or three puzzles, however, she said they had already begun to lose their appeal. She recalls repeatedly following the same process to obtain answers...