As though in expiation of their sires' wealth, schoolboys often had to live in conditions that would have disgraced a Dickensian workhouse.

Lawsuits, ahoy! […] Towns can regulate use of their beaches. But what about the waters offshore?

Twenty-one Sheltok megacarriers vanished without a trace, and others had close calls.

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