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...well that ends well? In fact it was a world of trouble. And as the frequency of piracy on the high seas grows, many ship owners and insurers aren't willing to wait for the navy to help them out. They are turning instead to an array of high-tech defenses to keep freebooters at bay. Among the offerings are night-vision equipment, high-powered water guns, ear-splitting klaxons, and a lubricant foam that make it difficult for pirates to get their footing. For commercial shipping vessels and yachts operating in high-risk areas of Southeast Asia...
...list of advantages is the way Brooks manages its inventory. The company can put a new tie on the shelf, see how it sells and, if it's a runaway, make and ship more within days. At the factory, a tie starts at one end with a cutter like Ramirez and then works its way in a bundle of 50 down the football-field-size room. All 16 steps--including sewing the tie's blade to its tail, adding a lining, pressing the tip and turning the tie right side out--take about an hour. "The flexibility to reproduce something...
Luckily, the growth of the craft-beer industry has spurred the proletariat-friendly beer tour. Sure, there are downsides to brewery-touring: because barley and hops ship well, breweries are traditionally far from pastoral farms and close to ugly, industrial areas, and because artisanal-beer makers tend to be hippies, you're going to hear a lot of Grateful Dead. But there are some major upsides: you can visit breweries, unlike wineries, right in major cities; you're finished admiring the operations in 10 minutes; and instead of sipping and spitting in uptight tasting rooms, you down samples in attached...
...while the current circumstances may suggest that this is a lost season for Harvard, the truth is that the squad is far from a sunken ship. With just 12 games left against Ancient Eight opponents, it would be more than just wishful thinking to say that the Crimson can come back to take the Rolfe Division title and finagle its way into the Ivy League Championship Series...
...comply with the subpoenas because it said compliance would compromise the newspaper’s independent role and because the sought-for information was available elsewhere and not central to the dispute. Since the dispute began on Harvard’s campus, Facebook’s revenues and user ship have skyrocketed. The site boasts 69 million active users, intense use by college-age consumers, and a market value that Microsoft has estimated at $15 billion. —Aparicio J. Davis contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Clifford M. Marks can be reached...