By Rick Paulas

Thursday, November 20, 2008

If you're up to date on your world affairs, you've no doubt heard about the Somali pirates who've been hijacking ships like crazy—80 attacks in the past year!—and holding the contents (or in PirateSpeak, "booty") for ransom. The pirates have been drastically expanding their operation as of late, with 14 attacks in the past 10 days, and you can see why: So far this year, they've collected an estimated $100 million in ransom! They've been so successful, in fact, that once-decrepit vi ...

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