Word: falcon
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...goes deep into the story in ways the movie couldn't. Just how did Leia and the rebels get those plans for the Death Star? The radio script takes you to their schemes. If it wasn't powerful enough to watch Alec Guiness reel in pain on the Falcon when he said. "I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror," you can experience that disturbance by forming an attachment of your own to the citizens of Alderaan. We've met them, made them our friends, and then they blow...
...good, in fact, it was the best movie ever!!! All the extra banter tends to drag things down. The parts of the script based in Tatooine and Alderaan are nifty because we have little or nothing to compare them to. The lengthening of the ride on the Milennium Falcon is gratuitous because we know exactly how it should sound. Obi Wan wouldn't have expounded at such length on the nature of Han's character, and the new condition of the ship. Ben Kenobi's charm was that he always said enough, but never too much. Writer Brian Daley...
...victims include not only the big carnivores and grazers, but also more than 100 other species, 20 of which could become extinct sometime in the next century if their depletion continues at the current pace, the Park Service warns. Four of them -- the hawksbill sea turtle, brown pelican, peregrine falcon, and Schaus' swallowtail butterfly -- are already endangered. "I remember seeing salmon so damn thick in the river you could have walked on them," Grosz says. "Now they're scarce. And we're killing 5,000 different kinds of birds every year...
...ornamental pool. Passenger seats litter the once manicured lawn. A tail wing juts through banana leaves. This is ground zero of Rwanda's carnage, where the bloodletting that has taken more than 200,000 lives had its catalyst. On a quiet evening two months ago, a French-made Mystere-Falcon carrying President Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda and the President of Burundi from peace talks in Tanzania was hit by rocket fire and slammed into the earth just outside the compound, killing all 10 on board. The impact blasted bodies and wreckage more than 500 ft., through a perimeter wall...
Pacific Lumber has been logging for 125 years and is accustomed to indulgent treatment by state forestry officials. Now several local creatures are on endangered-species lists: not only the murrelets but also the spotted owl, the peregrine falcon, the bald eagle and a couple of humble amphibians, the Pacific giant salamander and the tailed frog. While Coho salmon still spawn in Headwaters streams, stocks of this once plentiful game fish have crashed so sharply off California -- in part because of logging erosion -- that all sport and commercial fishing was banned recently. Environmentalists gripe that wildlife-survey regulations...