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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...
Audience member Roger Falcon, a student at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Diplomacy, said the NEA should keep funding controversial forms...
...slippery slope," Falcon said. "There are political realities, but it's important to work against limits that might...
...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...
...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...