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Indiana University archaeologists identified remnants of the ship that British privateer turned pirate William Kidd abandoned in the Caribbean in 1699 when he went to New York City to clear his name. The Quedagh Merchant had long eluded treasure hunters...
Tandem Technologies' ship had sailed. Literally. The cargo vessel promised to the young water-treatment company by the U.S. Maritime Administration was instead deployed to the Persian Gulf in 2002. Tandem's founder, Robert Lyles III, a recent graduate of Kenyon College, had planned to conduct research on the ship that would prove to investors the promise of the technique he had developed for treating the ballast water taken on by ships. And no ship could mean no funding. The sudden setback might have sunk Tandem. But surprisingly, it set the company on an unexpected new course--skin care...
After their ship didn't show, they changed their minds. Lyles, Durham and consultant Paul Gray decided in 2004 to create a skin-care company--with Tandem's seawater as the marquee ingredient--and siphon most of their new company's revenues back into Tandem's research. Less than a year later, C'watre was born...
Illegal immigrants intercepted on cargo ship...
DEFINITION rat spil n. The environmental crisis caused by an influx of rats after the ship they were stowed on docks at port or sinks...