Linkagery

• Pirates seize French commecial yacht off Somalia, French navy prepares for action. The French probably won't mess around with this - piracy in the region is a real problem, and as the story points out, the US Navy has fired on pirates, too.
  
  
• Medical miracles - so defined by medical scientists - are getting more academic attention in Britain. But the story of the carp that started speaking Hebrew? No way. Latin, yeah, maybe. But Hebrew would be too difficult for a carp.
  
  
• The patches of the defense department's stealth world - do they reveal or conceal what's going on with $32 billion of our money per year?
  
  

“These symbols,” Mr. Paglen wrote, “were a language. If you could begin to learn its grammar, you could get a glimpse into the secret world itself.”