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...men’s Nordic team was led by freshman Magnus Grimeland, in his first collegiate race after returning from a military obligation in his home country of Norway. Grimeland took 55th in the 10K Free Technique with a time...
...union in 2004. Leaders of the 10 countries will sign accession treaties at a special summit in Athens this week. At the weekend, Hungary became the third of the accession countries to approve the move by referendum. The Uses of Torture GERMANY A court ruled that the trial of Magnus Gäfgen, a law student charged with the kidnapping and murder of an 11-year-old boy, should go ahead despite the fact that police had threatened Gäfgen with torture to force him to reveal the boy's whereabouts. Gäfgen was arrested last year after...
...whopping $30,000. Joe Millionaire could live off that for a year. The Transformers toys, Hasbro's bread and butter, are even celebrities unto themselves. Fans whisper on newsgroups about the latest Optimus sighting in a remote Walgreens, and leak unauthorized photos of a nude (well, unpainted) Ultra Magnus to the web. Needless to say, cosmetic alterations to their beloved toys are greeted with the revulsion normally reserved for Michael Jackson's latest nose...
...1990s, some of the Algerians found sanctuary in Britain. The Algerian hard men recruited and turned to crime, making money from identity theft and document forgery. "North Africans, but particularly Algerians, have been the most active component of the al-Qaeda network in Europe," says Magnus Ranstorp, a terrorist expert at Scotland's St. Andrews University. Ranstorp says European intelligence and security services held an unprecedented meeting in the spring of 2001 in Algiers to discuss "what to do about the Algerian dimension." Now, at last, they have swung into action...
...everybody on edge," says Sonia Merzoug, a convert to Islam who has lived near the apartment - where one of the suspects was arrested - for the past seven years. "This is a bit too close to home for my liking." "The baseline anxiety level has been rising since 9/11," says Magnus Ranstorp, a terrorism expert at Scotland's St. Andrews University. Terrorists, he notes, are "looking for low-tech ways of making maximum mayhem." Substances like ricin - what Ranstorp calls "weapons of mass disruption" - fit the bill. As with the post-Sept. 11 anthrax attacks in the U.S., a small number...