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...members and Internet users, before being converted into action by "al-Qaeda." Not, as Sageman puts it, "al-Qaeda Central" (made up of those who have sworn an oath of loyalty to Osama bin Laden), but al-Qaeda the informal network, mobilizing radicalized Islamists around the world without any contact with bin Laden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Jihadi Next Door | 3/20/2008 | See Source »

...members and Internet users before being converted into action by "al-Qaeda." Not, as Sageman puts it, "al-Qaeda Central" (made up of those who have sworn an oath of loyalty to Osama bin Laden) but al-Qaeda the informal network, mobilizing radicalized Islamists around the world without any contact with bin Laden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Jihadi Next Door | 3/20/2008 | See Source »

...homemade telescope, Clarke studied physics before turning to writing full time. Among the advances he foresaw in more than 100 works: space travel, communications satellites and computers. His writing, most famously the futuristic novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, often came back to the theme of humankind gaining enlightenment from contact with alien life. He believed E.T.s would send a sign, noting last year, "We have no way of guessing when ... I hope sooner than later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 3/20/2008 | See Source »

...They had to pretend they didn’t know each other," Jafar said. "The entire plane ride, they didn’t even speak to each other or have eye contact until they had left Iraq and landed in another country...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Watercolor Memories' | 3/19/2008 | See Source »

...realistic and the verbs he returns to are investigate, analyze and explore. The Buddha was a "scientist," he said the last time I saw him, which means that a true Buddhist should follow the course of reason (recalling, perhaps, that anger most harms the person who feels it). Contact and communication are the methods he always stresses-to this day, he encourages every possibility for dialogue with China and in places even urges Tibetans to study Buddhism under Chinese leaders whom he knows to be capable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Monk's Struggle | 3/19/2008 | See Source »

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