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...lives. Intelligence officers say Nasir was trained and indoctrinated by Muslim extremists in Dubai and Pakistan, and remained a linkman to Pakistani terrorists. Nasir's brief career as a terrorist came to a sudden end when police officers opened fire on his car in a busy section of downtown Bombay. Inside the car, police found 92 gelatin sticks and eight electric detonators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Striking Back | 9/15/2003 | See Source »

...Dial-an-appliance" ... enables a housewife who is downtown shopping to start dinner before she starts home: she simply telephones her home, then by dialing additional digits turns on the oven, sets it to cooking the roast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 43 Years Ago In TIME | 9/8/2003 | See Source »

...Royal Nepalese Army soldiers in armored cars and mine-clearing vehicles now guard every street corner in the capital. Gatherings of more than five people?even, Rana assumes, his famous parties?have been outlawed, and the city grinds to a halt every few days as armed police cordon off downtown blocks and break up protests against the crackdown. On the outskirts, the army raids house after house, making hundreds of arrests every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living On the Brink | 9/8/2003 | See Source »

...beautiful thing about the World Series of Poker on ESPN is absolutely nothing. The event originates from Binion's Horseshoe Casino, a low-ceilinged dump in the vagrant's paradise that is downtown Las Vegas. The featured players have the unkempt eyebrows, gothic stares and cadaverous skin tones of Scooby-Doo villains. They are the least attractive people on TV not named Larry King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Decks, Lies & Videotape | 9/1/2003 | See Source »

Style-challenged heterosexuals aren't the only beneficiaries of Bravo's hit makeover show, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. Plenty of New York City merchants are reaping the benefits too. Desiron, a downtown home-furnishings store, at right, provided a $900 coffee table and a $2,600 sofa to help spruce up Tom Kaden's living room. In the month after the show aired, sales of the items nearly quadrupled, according to the store. Visiting the housewares emporium Domain, Queer Eye's interior designer, Thom Filicia, got excited about the store's red Victoria settee ($3,099) and dubbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Queer Eye, Straight Plugs | 8/18/2003 | See Source »

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