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Getting past the guards

BY ACCIDENT and by design, human bodies are hard to break into. They are surrounded by defensive walls (the skin, the lining of the gut, the barrier between the bloodstream and the brain), patrolled by sentries (the cells and antibodies of the immune system) and filled with mazes, such as the intricate network of blood […]
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Dead in the water? U.S. Coast Guard deals with aging fleet and mounting budget woes

In fact, an examination of Coast Guard records found that dozens of key vessels routinely deployed for search-and-rescue and law enforcement missions were never ready last year, and for increasingly longer periods of time. The agency reported that its 34 high and medium-endurance cutters, and 37 large patrol boats, were stuck at the pier and […]