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...hunters retaliated. They firebombed Giordano's car in 1986, later broke into her house, and mailed her a dead falcon with a note that said, "Your courage will cost you dearly." Those incidents, and another in which monitors were shot at, got law-enforcement officers on Giordano's side. "It made police understand that poaching wasn't a joke," she recalls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANNA GIORDANO: Making the Skies Safer | 2/28/2000 | See Source »

Audience member Roger Falcon, a student at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Diplomacy, said the NEA should keep funding controversial forms...

Author: By Eli M. Alper, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: NEA Chairs Discuss Role of Art in America | 2/18/2000 | See Source »

...slippery slope," Falcon said. "There are political realities, but it's important to work against limits that might...

Author: By Eli M. Alper, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: NEA Chairs Discuss Role of Art in America | 2/18/2000 | See Source »

...ignored her biting mockery as I tumbled headfirst into the popular culture trap and went anyway. And I have to admit--a part of me missed the swagger, the belligerence, the Milennium Falcon, the too-quick trigger finger and the stupid hyperdrive that never worked. Everything else about this movie was perfect. And maybe that was the problem...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, | Title: Finding the Force | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

...story has assumed mythic proportions, like the sinking of the Titanic or Robert Falcon Scott's doomed race to the South Pole. Shortly after noon on June 8, 1924, the 38-year-old English schoolmaster and Alpinist George Leigh Mallory, along with a young companion, an Oxford engineering student and oarsman named Andrew ("Sandy") Irvine, 22, vanished into the mists surrounding the summit of 29,028-ft. Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain, never to be heard from again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Everest: Who Got There First? | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

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