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Look at this from the BBC producers' point of view. Mandela's been ailing for a long while. All that stuff is in the can. It's there to be run at a button-push. Breaking news is harder to do, and more expensive than archived stuff to boot. Blame the sunk-cost fallacy and the path of least...

I remember 25 years ago when the marinas of SA were full of ocean-going sailboats -- 'bug-out boats -- 28-, 35-, 42-footers. Sail because of the freedom from fuel shortages. (Some of them were built up here in Maine, just for that market). People were buying marine SSB radios, studying...