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...medical history other than to say he passed a routine physical during spring training. (It apparently was unaware that the ballplayer's father had died from a stroke after suffering a heart attack at age 44.) Kile's examination probably included an electrocardiogram (ECG), which gives doctors an indirect reading on how well the heart muscle is working by monitoring its electrical activity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Death of an All-Star | 7/8/2002 | See Source »

...disaster." Chepchugov says there are some indications that at least one radical fundamentalist is showing interest in computers. The imam of Finsbury Park mosque in north London, Abu Hamza al-Masri (also known as Mustafa Kemal) "has gathered around himself a group of computer specialists," Chepchugov says. "This is indirect proof that Muslim extremists understand the potential of computer-based terrorism." Meanwhile, another Russian specialist in computer crime remarks, "I think our American friends are very interested in the Pakistan Hackerz Club [a pro-Pakistan hacker group]," which they apparently suspect of having contacts with radical groups. Al-Qaeda works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cracks in the System | 6/9/2002 | See Source »

...Saudi peace proposal has become a pan-Arab plan agreed upon by all Arab countries. The U.S. acknowledges it as a good move toward peace. Yet the Israelis and Palestinians continue to receive direct and indirect aid to buy weaponry from Saudi Arabia and the U.S. The Israeli and Palestinian people are pawns in a chess game of oil supply and demand between Saudi Arabia and the U.S. DOUG SNEDDEN Ottawa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 20, 2002 | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

...make an irrevocable breach with the guerrillas, in the event it later decides to rev up its clandestine support of them, according to foreign diplomats. The seven main suspects still at large in the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl last January all had indirect links with the spy agency through the Kashmir conflict, according to Western diplomats. Now they're on the run. A Pakistani police investigator in the case remarked acidly, "It seems inconceivable that there isn't someone in ISI who knows where they're hiding." Maulana Masood Azhar, leader of the Jaish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has Pakistan Tamed its Spies? | 5/6/2002 | See Source »

...Western diplomats. (For now, activity in guerrilla training camps inside Pakistan is suspended, militant sources say.) And some of these assets are downright dangerous. For example, the seven main suspects still at large in the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl in January all had indirect links with the spy agency through the Kashmiri conflict, according to Western diplomats. Now they are on the run, and as one investigator remarks acidly, "It seems inconceivable that there isn't someone in the ISI who knows where they're hiding." Maulana Masood Azhar, leader of the Jaish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rogues No More? | 4/29/2002 | See Source »

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