West Point cadets steal Air Force falcons, cause mayhem.
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“His method was inefficient in the extreme,” scoffed Nikola Tesla in 1931 in a New York Times obituary for his former employer and longtime scientific competitor, Thomas Edison. “In view of this, the truly prodigious amount of his actual accomplishments is little short of miracle.”
It is permitted to learn even from an enemy.
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