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...Energy Department's top-secret Nuclear Emergency Search Team, based in Nevada. The report said that terrorists were thought to have obtained a 10-kiloton nuclear weapon from the Russian arsenal and planned to smuggle it into New York City. The source of the report was a mercurial agent code-named DRAGONFIRE, who intelligence officials believed was of "undetermined" reliability. But DRAGONFIRE's claim tracked with a report from a Russian general who believed his forces were missing a 10-kiloton device. Since the mid-'90s, proliferation experts have suspected that several portable nuclear devices might be missing from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can We Stop The Next Attack? | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

STEVENS: Yes indeed. The Cambridge Police have said they’re happy to arrest us any time, provided my agent books it with them at least 24 hours in advance...

Author: By Jason L. Steorts, | Title: The PSLM Transcript | 3/8/2002 | See Source »

...ranging from the island's premier business weekly to the Chinese-language version of Marie Claire. It is also the largest outdoor advertising firm in China. As the dominant player in the emerging sports marketing industry in the mainland, Tom.com is the favorite to become the sole Chinese advertising agent for the 2008 Beijing Olympics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Uncle Tom's China | 3/4/2002 | See Source »

Several area hotels were booked full, including the Charles Hotel, where junior parents occupied about 80 percent of its capacity, or 230 rooms, said Beatrice Lehmane, a reservation agent at the Charles. The hotel even set out a spread of drinks and snacks in its lobby Friday afternoon...

Author: By Vanessa G. Henke, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Junior Parents Flock to Harvard | 3/4/2002 | See Source »

...late December, word went around that Dadullah was in Balkh, 25 kilometers to the west of Mazar: the CIA and hundreds of Alliance soldiers descended on the town and searched every house. "The soldiers just use it as an excuse to take whatever they wanted," said the agent, "They stole everything and even raped some of the women." In mid-February there was another report that Dadullah was in Sancharak, the tiny village in the mountains to the south of Mazar. Alliance commander Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum, confident that Dadullah was as good as caught, was rash enough to announce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking for Answers in Mazar-e-Sharif | 3/2/2002 | See Source »

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