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...their history of the Mediterranean, “The Corrupting Sea,” Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell wondered what they might find “when the town is dissolved as a category and the full range of Mediterranean settlement is approached from an ecological standpoint and viewed in its en-tirety.” In the same way, demographers and statisticians have quarreled for centuries about what exactly determines an “urban” area. Cities, although useful imaginary totalities, are less helpful when asked to support good social science or political policy...
...Sirius Star, at 1,000 feet long with three times the mass of a U.S. aircraft carrier, was seized 450 nautical miles out to sea, well south of the pirates' usual hunting ground in the Gulf of Aden. Its capture has experts worried that the pirates' audacity and technical capabilities have been underestimated. (See pictures of piracy in Somalia...
...pirates] doing so far south? If they are thinking of expanding their sphere of operations to such great distance, it is going to become an absolutely humongous task to get this thing under control. It does suggest that they are increasing their capacity to stay out at sea for a much longer period of time. They can just sit and wait until a vessel comes along...
...sea change in hedge funds may not be entirely bad news for investors, either. According to NYU economist Brown, an industry shakeout could get rid of many undercapitalized or poorly managed funds, leaving remaining funds to consolidate. And the culling could even be healthy for the industry, says MIT's Lo, who draws an analogy from biology. "We've just seen a big meteorite hit," he says. "It will kill a number of species. But in the wake of that death, whole new species will arrive." As students of evolution know, the dinosaurs died to make way for something smarter...
...race won will be the text.” Even her choice of form is reflective. Though Étienne writes in sonnet form, her sonnets initially look more like prose than poetry: “When you’re in Brittany, it’s the sea, rather, that arrives and departs, that denudes the earth, transforms it into a moonscape, which then comes back, which recovers it.” Later on, though, her poetry varies greatly: “Their wings lack hands. / Their mouths lack teeth. / Their pelvises lack a bladder...