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...Afghan 'jihad' also established links between volunteers from Islamist opposition groups in countries ranging from Algeria to South Africa and the Philippines, and Bin Laden has moved - together with key leaders of Egypt's influential Islamist movement - to establish himself at the center of a kind of Islamist International. Their goal has been to link organizations spawned by local grievances all around the world into a global 'jihad' against the U.S. and to foster cooperation among these groups...
...year--fuel for much of its annual growth over the past 15 years. That pace may have to quicken. Earlier this summer, GE Capital paid $5.3 billion for Heller Financial, which should give it more access to financing small and medium-size businesses. Capital's only possible "missing link," Merrill Lynch analyst Jeanne Gallagher Terrile points out, is a thriving business managing money for aging baby boomers...
...TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl tells us that statistically - going back 40 years - there?s no immediate causal link between a reported spike in the unemployment number and decreased consumer spending. Scary news affects consumer confidence and often that shows up in their spending habits. But not for a few months down the line; for September, anyway, the people with jobs are likely spend, and the bottom line is still that more than 95 percent of the work force that wants a job still has one. (Even if maybe the new one pays a little less...
DIED. E.T. HALL, 77, archaeologist and leading archaeometrist who famously uncovered the Piltdown Man hoax; in Oxford, England. Using X-ray fluorescence, Hall showed that the Piltdown Man's skeleton--once thought to be evolution's "missing link"--had been stained to look fossilized and that the teeth of an orangutan had been filed to appear more human...
...steady state" theory, which maintains the universe has no beginning or end; in Bournemouth, England. DIED. OSCAR JANIGER, 83, psychiatrist whose experiences on LSD inspired him to become one of the first Americans to study psychedelic drugs in the 1950s and early '60s; in Torrance, California. To examine the link between LSD and creativity he tested the drug on 1,000 volunteers, including Aldous Huxley, Cary Grant and Jack Nicholson. DIED. PETER MAAS, 72, best-selling author of true-life Mafia and police crime novels The Valachi Papers and Serpico, which were made into successful movies starring Charles Bronson...