Word: falcon
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...pedophiles? It's a question being asked four months after U.S. Customs agents presented the country's authorities with a list of suspects caught buying child pornography on the Internet. The agents told Time that none of the dozens of New Zealanders on the list - originating from Operation Falcon, which targeted purchasers of child pornography from websites originating in Belarus - have yet been arrested. Using records of the customers' credit card transactions, U.S. agents amassed a list of over 95,000 potential recipients of child pornography. Offenders were traced to a score of countries, including Australia and New Zealand...
FILM | The Maltese Falcon...
...made millions litigating asbestos claims and went on to national fame for beating Big Tobacco, representing the whistle-blower Jeffrey Wigand, subject of the movie The Insider. Scruggs' tobacco suits netted his practice an estimated $1 billion, money that bought him toys, from a $100,000 Bentley to a Falcon jet--and turned him into the dart-board face of tort reform. At 58, he works out of a small firm in Oxford, Miss., with his son Zach and two other lawyers. Scruggs has given up the Bentley for a more modest BMW. "He got it out of his system...
Vacationers in Martha's Vineyard last week caught a glimpse of an exotic out-of-towner. A RED-FOOTED FALCON, which alighted at the local airport, was the first of its species ever seen in the western hemisphere. How did the bird, which usually migrates between southern Africa and Europe or Central Asia, wind up on the wrong continent? One theory: a storm over central Africa may have blown the falcon off course...
...wearing oxfords and a shapeless cardigan, carrying a birding book and a pair of binoculars. It’s also true that history’s more famous walks—like that of Captain Laurence Oates who, crippled by frostbite and concerned he was weighing down Robert Falcon Scott’s Antarctic expedition, told his comrades “I am just going outside and may be some time” before striding off into a blizzard and death—are not ones you’d want to emulate...