Recently, a flock of plastic bags has caught in the spindly sycamore in front of their apartment, empty bags that inflate and deflate with the wind like marooned sailing ships.

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AOL. It has a history of sailing close to the wind.

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' Sailing Close to the Wind.

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Brown likens her investing approach to sailing: Work with the wind you've got.

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He's not doing anything illegal, he's just sailing a bit closer to the wind, perhaps.

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But the Albula steepens quickly, and the river disappears into a dramatic ravine, forcing the train to criss-cross the gorge, creaking like a sailing ship in a full-bellied wind.

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Ye saw their sails and how the boat was tipping right over till it was going to capsize but it did not, it was just picking up speed because the wind was there and it was good, so they were all sailing great and the boys all shouting, and the men too.

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Helicopters and rescue vehicles gave chase while millions held their breath because they thought a 6-year-old boy might be sailing through the skies, cold, frightened and just a gust of wind from falling.

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The turbines are "majestic and beautiful, " and on a clear day would appear "like a half-inch sailing mast on the horizon, " said Jim Gordon, the president of Energy Management, Cape Wind's developer.

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Louay Habib, from the Dubai Offshore Sailing Club, told the BBC the shore crew for the boat had said "there was no wind at the time, and they told us that they were organising for a tow to come and get them".

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