Galleries that run along this central display present model ships and 17th-century Massachusetts period rooms.

ECONOMIST: Art of the Americas

The nautical theme echoes throughout the house, too, with model ships, encased in glass display cases, adorning several hallways.

WSJ: Jim Ferraro's Larger-Than-Life Estate in Martha's Vineyard

In his Upper West Side office, Mark Kurlansky, author of The Big Oyster, a chronicle of the rise and fall of the bivalve in New York, is couched by a hotch potch of model ships, statuettes of jumping fish, an atlas, piles of novels, foreign language dictionaries, encyclopedias and loose papers.

FORBES: Oysters Are Back In New York City Waters

There will be a new OUYA next year, and the year after that, unlike the traditional game console model, where new hardware ships in five- to seven-year generational increments.

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At the press conference, a new slimmer model of the Xbox 360 was also revealed which ships today, and will be available in stores this week.

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Such a deployment could, moreover, prove a valuable model for American cooperation with other allies, especially those in Europe and Japan who have either Aegis ships of their own or ones whose systems can be operated in a collaborative fashion.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Get On With It: Time To Deploy Sea-Based Missile Defenses

PAC-3 (the forthcoming version of the Patriot missile, whose early model was tested during the 1991 Gulf war), and a naval system that might be on American ships by 2003.

ECONOMIST: Rockets overhead