Word: manhunting
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...very excited. The prospect of a scavenger hunt for something other than an Easter egg struck my fancy. A hunt for a real live missing person. A manhunt, in fact. I'll find him, I told my mother. She was touched by the gesture, but a bit confused. I assured her it was just for the thrill of the hunt, and she felt better...
...break from tallying is nice, but lookingfor Ulf was especially fun because it became sucha manhunt," Davis says. "Granted it wasembarrassing that we had been fooled, but it wasthe worst to find out that there wasn't someonewho had spent his life with the name UlfFireloins...
Washington will need a great deal of both this time. Amid the pandemonium in Nairobi, rescuers may have inadvertently destroyed the vital bits and shreds from which the experts reconstruct the bombs and their delivery vehicles that serve as a kind of fingerprint of the terrorists. The manhunt begins on hands and knees at the decimated sites as investigators search for telltale scraps and pass them along to high-tech analysts in Washington. Intelligence agents are already sweeping through phone intercepts and combing computer databases that list some 200,000 terrorist suspects and more than 3,000 groups...
...biggest beneficiary of the African embassy bombings may be Eric Robert Rudolph, the North Carolina fugitive wanted for an Alabama abortion-clinic bombing. The FBI announced Thursday that it was scaling back the manhunt for him, in part because of the personnel requirements of the Africa investigation. The Rudolph task force will be cut from 200 agents to 80, and its headquarters will be moved from a temporary encampment to a local warehouse -- a good idea, since the fugitive recently laid in a six-month supply of food to his hide out in the craggy forests of Macon County...
...enticements and entrapments have worked: a place on the FBI's ten-most-wanted list and a manhunt stretching as far as Denver have produced nothing. A $1 million reward has found no takers. Until two weeks ago, Rudolph had not been seen since the day after the bombing, when he rented the video Kull the Conqueror, stocked up on raisins, trail mix and batteries and bought $11 worth of burgers and fries from the Burger King in his hometown of Murphy, N.C. The trail had gone stone cold. And then on July 11, George Nordmann, 71, owner...