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Though Dora doesn’t talk to him, she is unspeakably moved by the sound of his voice and then the soft song of a blackbird on the other end of the line. In distress, she leaves Noel and goes to the National Gallery, where a Gainsborough painting excites unfamiliar emotions in her. Suddenly disordered and overwhelmed by the noise and jazz of London, and with the blackbird in her mind, she returns to Imber almost involuntarily. There, she feels, she can address her “real” problems...

Author: By Alexandra N. Atiya, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tome Raider: The Bell | 2/22/2006 | See Source »

FINDING A BETTER WAY Portable GPS navigators aren't new, but Alpine's BlackBird takes the technology a step further. Its gathers traffic updates, announces turn-by-turn directions and transmits MP3s to your car stereo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Gearing Up for 2006 | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

...Guys were driving, and [LIU] was collapsing,” he said following the Blackbird game. “I just got some easy baskets my teammates created...

Author: By Malcom A. Glenn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Stehle Carries Men's Basketball With Career Week | 12/19/2005 | See Source »

...rather then telling the audience about infinity, Moeliker showed a one-minute video of the life of a blackbird featuring the movie’s subject flying into a plate glass window five times...

Author: By Laura A. Moore, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ig Nobels Honor Off-Beat Science | 10/7/2005 | See Source »

...officials were alerted to the shipments last month when routine satellite surveillance spotted five Soviet ships loaded with crates docked at a Nicaraguan port near Bluefields. On Oct. 31, their suspicions were raised further when an SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance plane photographed military equipment that is commonly used by the Nicaraguans being unloaded from other Soviet ships in the Cuban port of Mariel. The intelligence analysts say the deliveries included at least two batteries of SA-2 or SA-3 surface-to-air missiles, which reportedly will be installed at the Punta Huete air base near Managua. The Soviets also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Notes: Nov. 18, 1985 | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

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