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...most revolutionary feature of the Monitor's design was the revolving turret, which could fire on a target regardless of the position of the ship...
...armored raft made of five layers of 1-in.-thick iron over wood extended well out over the hull, protecting the ship from ramming...
These possibilities include fatal illnesses, perhaps contracted from eating poisoned fish. Or startled reactions to the cacophony of a ship's engine. Or the sudden appearance of a predator. Some scientists have even linked whale groundings to magnetic anomalies that can play havoc with the internal compasses on which whales seem to depend for navigation. One scenario, however, has been pretty much dismissed in this case: disruption by underwater sonic booms from the powerful new U.S. Navy submarine-hunting sonar that recently inflicted fatal hearing damage on beaked whales in the Bahamas--and prompted an outcry from environmentalists when...
...years, U.S. citizens living in northern border states from Maine to Washington have been slipping into Canada to pick up prescription drugs at cut-rate prices. The Senate passed a proposal last week that would make it easier to ship Canadian drugs directly to the U.S. But opposition from the drug industry is fierce, and Washington handicappers give the measure little chance of becoming...
...Shanghai-based executive for a European sporting-goods company dismisses the notion that China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) will eliminate trade barriers. Even after the WTO agreement kicks in, his company will still have to pay an amount double the current national import tariff to ship his sneakers from Shanghai to the central city of Chongqing, because of protectionist fees imposed by provincial governments. Earlier this year, a U.S. automaker discovered that sending a sedan from Shanghai to northern Ningxia province is more expensive than shipping it from Detroit to Shanghai because truckers have...