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Quick Study: Pirates! Gallery
By Mark Lasswell
Even before sacking the U.S.-flagged Maersk, high-seas thieves had been plenty busy hijacking loaded ships in sparsely patrolled waters. Here, the
Reader's Digest
Version of why this centuries-old scourge is back—and its human and financial toll.
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Illustrated byCarlos Aponte; (
Maersk Alabama
) Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images
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