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...rowed more than halfway across the strait, a few hundred yards into Greek territorial waters. They've made it into Europe alive. Five minutes later, the radar picks up another dinghy nearby with five more young men, and the drill is repeated. As the captain turns the Lambro toward shore, the 10 men are told to sit on the deck near four large hot-air vents to keep warm...
...Saudi-owned oil supertanker, the MV Sirius Star, and its 25-member crew early Saturday morning in the Indian Ocean might trigger new thinking on whether to launch such a strike. It was shocking on two counts. One, the pirates have typically taken vessels within 200 miles of shore, but the supertanker was taken 450 miles off the Somali coast. International navies have been protecting a narrow corridor farther north toward the Gulf of Aden, but this seizure demonstrates the pirates' dramatically expanded reach. Two, the buccaneers have never taken over an oil supertanker, capable of carrying 2 million barrels...
...largest hospital in New England and the third oldest general hospital in the U.S., broke ground last September on a $144 million outpatient care facility in Danvers. While the new regulations should not affect the Children’s Hospital’s proposed expansion plans in the North Shore, spokeswoman Michelle Davis wrote in an e-mail that the legislation would certainly affect “future but yet to be determined plans.” “Our biggest concern is making sure that [state] resources are available for a timely review of projects...
...House” and the expectations it builds with its audience present a number of issues.First and foremost, its important to address who is making the show. Unlike “ER,” “House” was created by a layman, David Shore, and although the show is purportedly inspired by medical columns from The New York Times and The New Yorker, it isn’t exactly clear on what distant reality the show is based. Unlike in “ER,” where innumerable patients must be treated at a moment?...
...make American capitalism stabler and less savage - he will establish a Democratic majority that dominates U.S. politics for a generation. And despite the daunting problems he inherits, he's got an excellent chance. For one thing, taking aggressive action to stimulate the economy, regulate the financial industry and shore up the American welfare state won't divide his political coalition; it will divide the other side. On domestic economics, Democrats up and down the class ladder mostly agree. Even among Democratic Party economists, the divide that existed during the Clinton years between deficit hawks like Robert Rubin and free spenders...