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Boyce, the real-life Falcon of the book and movie called The Falcon and the Snowman, claims the security check he underwent in 1974 "was a joke." If investigators had talked to just one his friends, he testified, they would have found a "room full disillusioned longhairs, counter culture falconers, druggie surfers, several wounded, paranoid vets, pot-smoking, anti-Establishment types." Instead, Boyce was not only hired but was assigned to monitor secret worldwide communications between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spying to Support a Life-Style | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...joke: let's nuke Tehran. But we're human beings. We live here with families. We want a good national defense, and most people believe that a nuclear deterrent is the way to go. For that reason we get satisfaction from our work by contributing to our personal and national safety. It's corny--wave the flag--but it's true." As for those who dropped the Hiroshima bomb, she says that guilt or conscience ought not to be the consideration. "If a policeman shoots a felon, there's no guilt, only regret. You just wish the world had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the Physicist Saw: A New World, A Mystic World | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

Well, it may no longer be a joke. The killer bees, imported from Africa to Brazil for research, escaped in 1957, and their offspring began advancing slowly northward. Last week a killer colony was confirmed for the first time on American soil, in an oil field some 60 miles from Bakersfield, Calif. The bees are believed to have hitched a ride north on drilling equipment shipped from Latin America. The killers are no more venomous than domestic bees, but they are easily provoked and attack in great numbers. They were first reported in California by an oil-field worker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Notes: Aug 5, 1985 | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

Senegal-born, U.S.-raised Akon starts his tale of abandonment with typical woe. Then the chorus--a sample of Bobby Vinton's Mr. Lonely, played at Chipmunk speed--arrives, and the song turns into a joke about self-pity. A rare R&B hit with a hint of self-awareness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: 10 Songs Worth at Least 99 Cents | 4/10/2005 | See Source »

...have seen more than a few videos overcome atrocious songs. Unfortunately, the plot of this video centers around—you’ll never guess—a bad Madonna cover-band wooing 50 Cent’s bodyguards at a seedy Cincinnati strip joint. No joke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POP SCREEN: Music Videos | 4/8/2005 | See Source »

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