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If these were normal times, Ger Tysk, a sailor, would be getting her tall ship ready for an expedition along the coast of New England.Tysk, 38, is hunkered down in her apartment in New Bedford, Mass.S

Privacy—battered though it is by what Al Gore referred to as our “stalker economy” where customers become the products—is something we still apparently hold dear—at least enough that every s

During the Pequod‘s last voyage in Herman Melville’s classic Moby Dick, Captain Ahab is 58 years old. Physically, he has a prosthetic leg made of whale bone, and a pale white mark or scar that run