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...benefits of renewed interest in their design. “Demand has been skyrocketing,” Mowery said. “We can’t keep up with it.” All 250 shirts manufactured last spring have now sold out, and the recently-ordered shipment of 50 more shirts has been claimed already. Interest peaked after an e-mail advertising the shirts was sent out over some house lists on Wednesday, Mowery said. After wearing his T-shirt to Summers’ resignation speech on Tuesday, Mowery said the shirts were featured in the Boston Herald...
...port without incident, its containers should be selectively spot-checked. Containers should pass through radiation detectors, and a scanned image at the arrival port should be compared with the image taken at the loading port. If the images and sensor data match, it can be safely concluded that the shipment has not been tampered with and it can be released. The containers should then be tracked as they move to their final destination, allowing the ability to intercept the shipment in the face of late-breaking intelligence...
...cost of installing cargo-scanning equipment in all the world's marine container terminals would be $500 million to $600 million, or about the cost of four new F-22 fighters. A container outfitted with sensors and tracking equipment, and certified at its origin, would run approximately $50 per shipment or add 1.5% to the average overseas shipping cost...
...Grains of Wisdom: The Rice Diet Solution Rice is low fat, low sodium and low just about everything except fiber and calories. But what other diet dares to promise a 10-to-15-kg weight loss per month? Let's hope the rice shipment is not on a slow boat from China. BUZZWORDS: Ricers; Dieta; Mindfulness; Detox...
GRAINS OF WISDOM Rice is low fat, low sodium and low just about everything except fiber and calories. But what other diet dares to promise a 20-to-30-lb. weight loss per month? Let's hope the rice shipment is not on a slow boat from China. BUZZWORDS: Ricers; Dieta; Mindfulness; Detox...