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...more than 3,000 hours. "I'm not really an aerial photographer," he says. "I'm a photographer who uses helicopters." He considers them "magic toys," providing access to remote locations and the ability to hover over a landscape for long periods of time. "With a plane, you just steal the photograph as you fly over." Arthus-Bertrand's environmental journey, which has so far included scores of countries, began in central France, where, as a young man, he managed a nature reserve. At 30, he moved to Kenya with his wife, Anne, to study lions in the Masai Mara...
Sneaking expensive equipment out of biology labs in the dead of night while working unsupervised graveyard shifts, two doctoral fellows managed to steal several years’ worth of lucrative medical research from Harvard Medical School (HMS) two years ago, according to charges filed earlier this month by federal prosecutors...
...quickly can you change a complex political culture?" says Joseph Nye, dean of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Spy agencies such as the CIA are all about cracking codes, uncovering secrets. "During the cold war," Nye says, "they didn't believe it was important unless you had to steal it. But some of the biggest and hardest questions are mysteries--and most of the answers to a mystery are available in the public domain and just have to be assembled." At the FBI, "getting people to sit in the back office and connect dots has not been their strong...
...eyes and crooked cops? "I wanted to write a novel from the time I was very small," Carter confesses. "Most of the major characters came to me almost full blown 20 years ago." He tapped out Emperor late at night, working from 10 to 2 so as not to steal time from his teaching. The law has made him a verbal perfectionist, even in conversation: every other sentence starts with "Let me clarify that by saying...
...extremely distraught and began crying during the interview and tried to explain to the police that I was ‘not a bad person and did not intend to steal any money,’” she said in the affidavit...