Word: hawkings
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MILESTONES OF AVIATION In less than a century after Kitty Hawk, pilots were flying across the oceans, around the world and into space...
...Wright brothers' flights at Kitty Hawk...
Since his childhood in Harlem, Dash has brandished the idea that he would come out ahead of the game. He would sweep barbershop floors and hawk newspapers to get money so he would have the very latest Fila sneakers. And there's that action-hero name. His mother Carol Young Dash raised Damon alone and worked a couple of jobs to provide a middle-class life for her son. Her labor, and scholarship money, enabled Dash to attend Dwight, a prestigious Manhattan prep school, and later a Connecticut boarding school. "I was around kids that had country houses and cooks...
Fulfilling the boundless promise exhibited in her debut effort, The Virgin Suicides, director Sofia Coppola crafts a sublime love letter to Tokyo and transitory friendship with her newest film, Lost in Translation. Hollywood star Bob Harris (Bill Murray) has been shipped off to Japan to hawk Suntory whiskey to the natives. There he encounters Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), the beautiful wife of a photographer who spends much of her day staring out her window in hopes of somehow finding herself within the city’s skyline. The pair discover Tokyo culture and a profundity in their friendship that is lacking...
...pigeons (or "air rats," as some call them). Mayor Ken Livingstone last month imposed an $85 fine on anyone who feeds the birds in Trafalgar Square, where numbers fell from 4,000 to just 200 after a 2001 ban on feed sellers and the recruitment of a harrier hawk. But not all cities are inhospitable. In Venice, feed sellers can be fined up to $590, but those catering to the 40,000-strong flock of St. Mark's Square are exempt. Paris officially welcomes pigeons as "the only sign of biodiversity in the city center," but is now testing public...