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In January a delegation of senior bureau officials and big-city police chiefs traveled to Israel to swap intelligence. The talks "impressed on me the absolute necessity for the public's participation in reporting suspicious activity and events," says FBI Assistant Director Van Harp, head of the Washington field office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Targets for Hamas? | 3/24/2003 | See Source »

In Britain the Westons are often referred to as the family that invented sliced bread. The founder of their retail business was a Canadian emigre, Garfield Weston, who created individually packaged loaves. His son Garry built publicly traded Associated British Foods (ABF) during the postwar years and acquired dozens of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting On Heirs | 3/24/2003 | See Source »

3. Fully half of our women athletes are minorities and come from diverse socio-economic backgrounds. In addition, our coaching staff is a diverse group including an Israeli Jew and son of Holocaust survivors, a Chinese expatriate and recent emigre, and a Filipino-American who spent the early years of...

Author: By Peter Brand, | Title: Attack on Fencing Has No Grounding in Fact | 3/3/2003 | See Source »

Chinese emigre authors who received advanced education in the West are more likely to write in English. Both Ha Jin and Jung Chang hold doctorates from Western universities, and Da Chen, author of Colors of the Mountain, received a law degree from Columbia University. Anchee Min completed a master's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Chapter | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

Can buying a snowblower, a barbecue and a couple of lawn mowers in Canada make you a suspected link to al-Qaeda? Michael John Hamdani, 44, became just that after a shopping spree late last October in Brampton, a city west of Toronto. The owners of a shop that he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shadows in Our Midst | 1/13/2003 | See Source »

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