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...took police 18 years to nab the Unabomber. At just 22 days, the sniper probe was comparatively speedy; still, it snaked through numerous wrong turns and culs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Road To Capture | 11/4/2002 | See Source »

Even with all this data in hand, good luck or a good tip may still be necessary to nab the suspect. But investigators are less dependent than ever on chance, and what they have unveiled this week is only a sampling of what they have in their high-tech kits. There are computer programs that turn muddy surveillance videos into crisp digital images. There are chemical scanners that probe evidence, one molecule at a time. There are experimental--and controversial--sensors that analyze a suspect's brain waves and determine what he knows and what he doesn't. The business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Science Solves Crimes | 10/21/2002 | See Source »

...hiding, of course, is the man the U.S. wants most. Bin Laden is "not just a cog in a machine that can be easily replaced," says a Pentagon official. "If he's gone, it could lead to al-Qaeda crumbling." The Pentagon's best chance to nab bin Laden came last December, when he was thought to be cornered in the craggy valleys of Tora Bora in eastern Afghanistan. The American strategy was to enlist Afghan proxies to search the caves for bin Laden while U.S. warplanes pummeled possible sanctuaries from overhead. The scheme failed miserably. The Afghans were poorly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan: Grading The Other War | 10/14/2002 | See Source »

...Crimson lost 27-28, but Bienvenu doesn’t blame the flag-pole incident for Harvard’s one-point loss. The race could have gone either way from the gun, and any one of the Crimson runners could have stepped it up to nab the victory, he said...

Author: By Chris Schonberger, CONTRIBUTINGWRITER | Title: Flag Pole Stymies M. Cross-Country Team | 10/8/2002 | See Source »

...Crimson lost 27-28, but Bienvenu doesn’t blame the flag-pole incident for Harvard’s one-point loss. The race could have gone either way from the gun, and any one of the Crimson runners could have stepped it up to nab the victory, he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flag Pole Stymies M. Cross-Country Team | 10/7/2002 | See Source »

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