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...Almost immediately I got a second e-mail saying it was a mistake, and there was no cause for alarm,” Mitchell said...

Author: By Katherine M. Dimengo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Technology Mix-up Strikes Nerves | 9/27/2002 | See Source »

...surprisingly, Ba'asyir's, and JI's, apparent untouchable status has set off alarm bells in Washington. U.S. calls for action against Islamic militants in Indonesia have been ratcheted up in recent weeks. President Bush discussed the issue with Megawati in a Sept. 16 phone call; the next day, the director for Asian affairs of the National Security Council, Karen Brooks, made a quiet two-day visit to Jakarta. While those conversations amounted to polite encouragement, the U.S. has also been using the threat of harsher tactics to bring Megawati into line. Washington is threatening to officially classify...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking the Hard Road | 9/23/2002 | See Source »

...feel as if I'd orphaned my baby. TIME: Why didn't you film The Magdalene Sisters in Ireland, where it's set? Mullan: It came down to money. But I was a bit concerned when we couldn't get an advert in one of the Irish newspapers. Alarm bells went off, rightly or wrongly. I worried that we'd be met with similar small acts of sabotage. TIME: You still consider yourself a Catholic? Mullan: My mother handed over my soul when I was two weeks old, and they educated me until I was 18. I don't want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gritty Scot | 9/22/2002 | See Source »

...dressed and heading downtown. By the time he arrived, the bag was cordoned and the bomb dogs were circling it. They didn't alert. The bag contained only paperwork. "In these times," Anderson says, "you don't assume anything will turn out to be a false alarm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Inspector: Manning The Bridge | 9/9/2002 | See Source »

Call them the ephedra wars. For the past five years, the FDA has been trying to restrict the availability of ephedra, an herbal stimulant and the active ingredient in hundreds of popular diet aids and energy boosters sold across the U.S. The reason for the agency's mounting alarm: ephedra has been linked to a number of strokes, heart attacks and seizures and more than 100 deaths. But every time the FDA gets closer to its goal, the dietary-supplements industry successfully lobbies other parts of the government to roll back changes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ephedra: Who's Telling the Truth? | 8/26/2002 | See Source »

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