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...embarrassed on senior night, though, conference-leading Newbury rebounded in the third. Nighthawk senior Josh Aberly notched four kills in the game, consistently evading the Harvard blockers...
...started a fight that you will certainly lose. Wartime leadership requires a dual message. It has been President Bush's role from the earliest days to handle our hopes, reacquaint us with our resilience and remind our allies of our resolve. It has fallen to Vice President Cheney, a nighthawk with a darker imagination, to focus our fears. The risks of inaction outweigh the risks of action, he warned this summer, because we face an enemy that will never relent and never recede until it is destroyed...
...most dangerous plane to fly in the U.S. Air Force today isn't the screaming F-15 Eagle, the Baghdad-bombing F-117 Nighthawk or the thunderous B-1 Lancer. In fact, it's not a jet at all but the first plane fledgling pilots fly--the powerful, propeller-driven trainer flown by cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. Six people--three cadets and their instructor pilots--have died in three crashes of the T-3 Firefly trainer since the planes began flying there in 1995. The T-3's crash record...
...prove-it-to-me scientist but is also capable of deep religious faith. He is as intent on the impression he is making as any politician up for re-election. Yet he appears to be utterly unpretentious, preferring to dress casually in jeans and, when he rides his Honda Nighthawk 750 motorcycle, a black leather jacket. (On one of his motorcycle helmets he sticks decals that keep a running tally of every gene he and his collaborators have tracked down, including the ones responsible for cystic fibrosis and Huntington's disease...
Indeed, to sociobiologists deceit is a crucial factor in evolution. Some birds, like the nighthawk, can feign a broken wing to lure predators away from a nest. In some avian species, a female that has been inseminated by a departed male may try to hide the fact, thus tricking a new male into investing his time and resources in offspring?and genes?that are not his. In the long run, however, natural selection sharpens up both the ability to cheat and the ability to detect cheating. Trivers and Dawkins suggest that the need for deceit?and for its detection?...