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Twenty-one years ago, a quiet young Englishman named Philip Beale visited Java and fell in love with a ship. To be precise, it was a picture of a ship, a sculptural relief of a jaunty schooner, its bow thrust upward by a swell, carved some 1,200 years ago at Borobudur, the magnificent Buddhist monument not far from Yogyakarta. Roaming across the Indonesian islands on a grant to study traditional ships, Beale had read that sailors from the Malay Archipelago regularly crossed the Indian Ocean, and even established colonies in East Africa, centuries before Borobudur was built...
Cremation is an increasingly popular choice for many people. Just a decade ago, only 18% of Americans were cremated; today, 27% are, and the Cremation Association of North America predicts that number will jump to 48% by 2025. That's owing, in part, to the swell of immigrants who practice Hinduism or Buddhism, as well as to the relaxing attitudes of the Roman Catholic Church, which began to allow cremation in the 1960s. Others are drawn by the convenience and low cost. A traditional funeral runs about $5,800, with burial fees adding $2,000 more. Cremation costs about...
...waved or—God forbid—shouted their names, so we wandered past cautiously. Uniforms and shaved heads make the midshipmen a homogenous mass, but there was no mistaking Adam’s swagger or Brad’s jaw line. I felt a little swell of pride at my friends in their crisp white uniforms...
...larger war he has been waging on old-fashioned military thinking. But the "SOF guys," as they are called around the Pentagon, have emerged as the biggest winners in the Rumsfeld era. The defense chief has set in motion a host of changes that will boost their budgets and swell their ranks in the next five years. And last week Rumsfeld took the extraordinary step of recommending a retired four-star general, Peter Schoomaker, an original member of Delta Force, to be the next Army Chief of Staff. This is the first time in U.S. history that a top commando...
...improving the squad, she says she hoped that overall spirit and pride in cheering on the Crimson teams would swell. Stoeckel worked as a recruiter, and made sure that the squad was constantly working to improve itself—both practicing and watching videos of better squads around the company...