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According to a Pakistani law-enforcement official, Khan was a gifted techie. He helped bin Laden's network set up incendiary Islamist websites in Pakistan and abroad, sent encrypted messages through the Internet to al-Qaeda cells and helped research other useful information, such as how to use computer models...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Al-Qaeda In America: Target: America | 8/16/2004 | See Source »

For Beijing 2008, the country is concentrating on canoeing/kayaking, with its 48 Olympic medals, and baseball, even though China has never before fielded an Olympic baseball squad and hasn't qualified in the sport for this year's Games. The need to create insta-stars was what brought Xu Damin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Price of Gold | 8/9/2004 | See Source »

As Kerry celebrated victory on the night of the Iowa caucuses, he paid tribute to "the magical Michael Whouley"--a name now revered among Democratic insiders as one of the party's most gifted organizers but someone who got his start in Kerry's world as a streetwise kid from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside The Inner Circles | 8/2/2004 | See Source »

For most politicians, it is a nearly automatic disqualifier if even the most gifted potential aide or adviser has worked for an opponent. They and their loyalists keep lists, which is why you find precious few veterans of the John McCain campaign occupying fancy offices in the Bush White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside The Inner Circles | 8/2/2004 | See Source »

Tough cops, car chases, killer bots--the sci-fi action-movie format is starting to rust. Director Alex Proyas used to be able to spiff up the genre; his Dark City and The Crow created vivid, lurid nightscapes. This time, even given a lavishly muscled superstar and a murder plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: The Future Is Getting Old | 7/26/2004 | See Source »

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