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FALCON

An owner picks up his falcon from the Abu Dhabi Falcon Hospital.

There’s a hospital in the United Arab Emirates that serves only falcons

Culture

The US has the bald eagle. The United Arab Emirates has falcons. The bird is rooted in the country’s culture and tradition. And a hospital near Abu Dhabi is helping preserve that tradition.

Abu Dhabi hospital focuses on patients of the avian kind

Abu Dhabi Falcon Hospital: Vets Catering to a Very Particular Crowd

Health & Medicine
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BirdNote® Aplomado Falcon – Species Recovery in the Works

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Falcon Addiction

Bird cams turn otherwise diligent employees into falcon fanatics.

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SpaceX company Obama administrations’s latest hope for space travel

Global Politics

Today or tomorrow the Falcon 9 rocket is slated for test launch at Cape Canaveral. When the 18-story rocket fires into orbit – or crashes into the ocean – it will be carrying no cargo, no astronauts, just one heavy load: Obama’s hopes for space.

The World

Internet woes in Egypt and India

Computer users in Egypt, India, and a number of other countries were cast back to a time before broadband today when two key internet cables under the Mediterranean Sea were cut off, causing a massive cyber-slowdown, as The World’s Clark Boyd reports.