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...head rested on my sand pillow, my uneasiness was subdued with the surf’s after-effect—a phenomenon where the ebb and flow feel of the wave lingers with the body after it has left the water. So I reflected upon the time I just spent in the water: my satisfying swim over the smooth sand, under the radiant sun with the energetic kids. And then I remembered what a joy my first month of summer had been...
Though U.S. officials have less experience than the French with native-born al-Qaeda operatives, the phenomenon worries them. Padilla's case, says a senior intelligence official, proves that "just about anybody who's dysfunctional to start with can get wrapped up in this Islamic-extremist world." There have always been some Americans--or longtime residents of the U.S.--connected to al-Qaeda. For years there have been rumors of Americans in the Afghan terrorist camps, and an American, originally from Georgia, is reported to have died in 1998 while fighting with Islamic militias in Kashmir. But with the salient...
...died of cancer in a prison hospital last week at 61, made up for his shortcomings with entertainments. He threw Fourth of July parties for his neighbors in Queens, N.Y., making himself the toast of the locals. (His folk-heroism was always a peculiarly parochial, New York City phenomenon, like Ed Koch or egg creams.) He made like a mobster out of central casting, plunging into night life wearing $2,000 suits (hence his nickname "the Dapper Don") and taunting the feds by being acquitted three times (hence, "the Teflon Don") before the charges stuck...
...about 1 million followers in the Philippines, who believe he is a reincarnation of Jesus Christ. AUSTRALIA Just Another Trick of the Light In an experiment straight out of Star Trek, two Australian scientists teleported information between two laser beams a meter apart. The scientists made use of a phenomenon called quantum entanglement to dismantle a signal-transmitted in photons, or particles of light-in one shaft of laser light and instantaneously rebuild a replica of it in a second laser beam. Star Trek-style transporters that could move objects through space are still remote, however. "Teleporting of that kind...
Though nearly half of this year’s admitted class still hails from California, Wire says more high school seniors from the East Coast are also applying to Stanford because of a “self-perpetuating phenomenon...