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LUXOR, Egypt: As grisly firsthand accounts of the massacre of 58 tourists at the Hatsepshut temple emerged Tuesday, so did the culprits. The outlawed al-Gamaa al-Islamiya, or Islamic Group, claimed responsibility for the attack through faxes to Western news agencies. The group claimed it had been seeking the release of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman...
...plan only puts into writing what reformers have increasingly come to recognize: that good managers can make a huge difference, no matter how much money they have to work with. Leonard Hamm, the new chief of Baltimore's school police, says he has seen firsthand how a talented principal can reverse the decline of a school. "I'm an overly simplistic guy," he says, "but man, it's not rocket science. It takes one person saying, 'This isn't going to happen...
...helicoptered back to Britain to continue his convalescence in London. French investigators may go there to question him again in a couple of weeks. But experts say there is only a slight chance that he will regain his memory of the critical instants. In the absence of his firsthand account, investigators can only sort through the physical evidence and more than 1,000 pages of testimony, much of it contradictory, to seek the precise cause of the accident. Based on interviews with eyewitnesses, experts, lawyers and sources close to the investigation, TIME has put together an exclusive account of what...
That may, however, be a matter of cultural interpretation. Shaman's ethnobotanists have found that many rainforest healers actually live with their patients to witness firsthand the full range of medical symptoms. "That," says Conte, "is much more sophisticated healing than what we do here...
...brought a lot of experience and firsthand knowledge," said McComma Grayson '00. "It was practical stuff that entrepreneurs need to know to get started...