Regrettably, some domestic media get trapped in such webs".
Many animal species are more or less monogamous, but it is only humans that have marriage, and only humans who have the webs of meaning within which marriages – and human sex – exist.
On two occasions in 2013, one in broad daylight, jihadists filmed themselves firing RPGs at ships passing through the canal.Such attacks are unlikely to sink container ships, but the militants may have drawn on old tribal and smuggling webs to gain heavier weapons, most likely from Libya.
"They operate in a closed loop made up of quite complex webs of different organisms," he says.
Both models suggested that the condition of some Arctic food webs is coming under strain.Building ecological models is, however, a tricky business.
One program draws visual webs that show the length, destination and other features of phone calls made by Mr Madoff and his staff, and then looks for patterns.A fast-growing business where technology will be crucial is fighting money-laundering.
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Even its name, "web services", is so vague that vendors find it hard to build any hype for a lay audience around it.The best way to understand web services is to stop thinking of either "webs" or "services" and instead to picture Lego blocks.
The biggest listed Chinese and Indian state firms each employ between a quarter and half a million people and are enmeshed in webs of patronage.
Their recent penchant for spiders and webs, however, demands explanation not least because big names in the investment industry now plan to peddle such creatures to Europeans as well.These exotic-sounding products belong to a class of investments known as "exchange-traded funds" (ETFs)— or simply "i-shares", since they give investors immediate access to a stockmarket index.
But in an age where almost anything can be outsourced, even humdrum companies rely on webs of relationships with suppliers and customers that become vulnerable during takeovers.
