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...good news is that there are plenty of steps you can take. Most credit thieves are opportunists, not well-organized gangs. A lot of them go dumpster diving for those millions of "pre-approved" credit-card mailings that go out every day. Others steal wallets and return them, taking only a Social Security number. Shredding your junk mail and leaving your Social Security card at home can save a lot of agony later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Avoid Identity Theft | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

...Wiranatha knows that fate dealt him a survivor card this time around?one of his bars, the sophisticated Ku DE Ta in Seminyak, is managing to stay afloat due to a loyal expat clientele?but he worries about others. "We have a ceremony to send the victims to heaven, but what about those left behind? Those who lost a father, a business, how do they eat, how do they send their children to school?" If the tourists don't come back, or another bomb hits the region, Wiranatha knows that as a last resort, he can always return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Desperately Seeking Survival | 11/25/2002 | See Source »

...complete; only a portion of the checks have been scrutinized so far. But sources said that starting in January 1999, payments of $2000 a month were made from Princess Haifa's checking account to a woman named Majida Ibrahim Ahmad Dwaikat, a Jordanian national with a green card, who is the wife of Osama Bassnan. Bassnan first came to the attention of the Saudi Embassy in Washington in April 1998, when he wrote a pleading letter to Princess Haifa introducing himself as a Saudi living in Washington with four children and a pregnant wife, who also had a severe thyroid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feds Doubt Allegations of Saudi Terror Funding | 11/24/2002 | See Source »

...Kabbalah, AKA "The Tree of Life," a Hebrew glyph of ten interconnected numbers laid out like a hopscotch pattern. Dedicating one issue to each "sephiroth," or number, Moore imagines each one as a real place corresponding to a part of our solar system, an aspect of divinity, and a card in the tarot deck. As Promethea travels to each realm she learns more and more about the nature of man and divinity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pow! Biff! Enlightenment! | 11/22/2002 | See Source »

Holt was known to be a wild card, a whimsical character who was reported to have once left the bullpen during a Crimson baseball game in order to fetch his transistor radio. Always a Hawaiian first, he would frequently wear Bermuda shorts and sandals around the Square regardless of weather conditions, and he generally tended to be almost too relaxed for comfort...

Author: By Evan Powers, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Milton Holt ’75: From The Stadium to the Slammer | 11/22/2002 | See Source »

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