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...city of Karachi. Then they pounced. And in one of the biggest coups of the antiterrorism campaign so far, they grabbed a Yemeni al-Qaeda leader named Waleed Muhammad bin Attash along with five Pakistanis who had stashed 330 lbs. of explosives and weapons under the produce. Another big fish netted in the raid was Ali Abd al-Aziz, a bin Laden bagman who, U.S. officials tell TIME, funneled nearly $120,000 to the Sept. 11 hijackers. Aziz could help expose the secret financial networks that fund al-Qaeda operations...
Many couples opt for locations that not only are congenial to a ceremony but also offer opportunities to golf, fish, indulge in a spa treatment or explore another culture. Avid scuba divers Stephanie Dowling, 29, and Chad Eschmeyer, 28, of Scottsdale, Ariz., plan for their May 2004 wedding in the Virgin Islands to include a day of snorkeling and diving. They originally anticipated 15 guests. Now 50 guests, many of them fellow divers, are scheduled to stay in a resort the couple selected over the Internet for a week of activities, including celebrations of Cinco de Mayo, the Mexican festival...
...Another conflagration erupted in the nearby village of Xiaomaiyu. Fisherman Lin had been munching on octopus and broad beans last week when he saw a commotion at the fish-breeding pens in front of him. He watched as some 400 villagers attacked an abandoned building that local officials were secretly renovating as a SARS quarantine center. As the outmanned bureaucrats looked on, the peasants forced construction workers to strip the building of its innards. Order was restored only when soldiers stationed nearby arrived. Lin and other eyewitnesses claim the soldiers beat up several elderly villagers; at least four were hospitalized...
...would be easy to say we were empty on adrenaline,” said Harvard coach David Fish ’72. “From the first point it looked like we didn’t have anything left...
...Where I come from, Canada, it’s dark for months at a time, so when I first came here all I really knew how to do was be pale and ice fish,” Hendry said. “But when I first met Curran he taught me how to unleash my inner bronzed Adonis, and I taught him how to hunt polar bears with a hockey stick. So even though I lost, I believe that everyone here is a winner...