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...these have been sunk by foreign navies, but they do not have to be replaced often. A large trawler built in the 1970s costs about $1 million. A trawler that is ten years old costs closer to $3 million. Some of the trawlers the pirates use were probably seized during their raids. Most research indicates that one out of three attempts by the pirates to hijack a ship succeeds. Covering enough ground to seize 120 vessels a year based on 400 attempts means that the pirates are probably running a dozen mother ships at any one time. The costs...
...scrapped rather than resold.) "There are significant environmental advantages and substantive benefits for the auto sector," says Benjamin Goldstein, a policy analyst for left-leaning think tank the Center for American Progress. "This goes right for the source of the problem, for vehicles sales and for oil use...
...great deal of research in the past decade has shown how this process works. In 2000, psychologists Mark Muraven and Roy Baumeister published an influential paper in which they observed that self-control is like a muscle: it weakens after you use it. For example, say you exert self-control by avoiding strawberry shortcake and opting for asparagus instead. Now your self-control is enfeebled, so rather than turning to that Tolstoy novel you vowed to finish, you watch a Simpsons rerun instead. Your self-regulatory resources can also be expended by, for instance, taking a test or enduring...
...Fiction writers are especially affected by the pressure on Harvard students to use their degrees for a high-powered career. The publishing industry is infamously difficult to break into, and success is far from guaranteed. “A writer is a hard thing to become,” Fine says. “I’m not sure—maybe [I’ll write] at some point, but not immediately after college. Maybe...
...office at that point but subsequently returned with a heavily redacted memorandum ... Mr Ghappour asked me if the PRT could review this memorandum. Because this was a very unusual submission, I asked him what the point of reviewing such a document would be. He replied that he wanted to use the memorandum to demonstrate to Mr Mohamed that he (i.e., Mr Ghappour) was working on Mr Mohamed's case." The PRT member says that on the basis of "Mr Ghappour's stated rationale," the memo was marked "unclassified." Its subsequent publication along with the letter, which had not been submitted...