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...later retracted his confession and, along with his co-defendants, now denies the charges against him. A verdict is expected Feb. 16. Inside Job? PAKISTAN A suspect under arrest for conspiring to blow up President Pervez Musharraf in December 2003 has escaped from a high-security prison in the port city of Karachi, senior security sources told TIME. The sources said that the escapee, known as Mushtaq Ahmad, "disappeared" after "a security lapse" at the prison around the New Year holiday, prompting a so-far secret nationwide manhunt. The military-controlled regime of Musharraf, who has survived at least three...
...restore your sense of wonder China's first beer museum takes its subject very seriously. "Tsingtao beer culture," intones a guide, "is a paragon succeeding in integrating Eastern and Western culture." At the World of Tsingtao, tel: (86-532) 383 3437, who can argue? Located in the Yellow Sea port from which it takes its name, the museum at China's best-known brewery contains two-dozen exhibits that bear titles like "Mystic Yeast." The Bavarian Purity Law of 1516 gets a display, as does a 4,000-year-old Sumerian hymn to Ninkasi, the goddess of brewing. Better still...
...have gone digital, there are still times when a scanner would be handy for emailing an older print or posting it on an online photo site. The Visigo Photo Scanner from Ambir Technology is a 600-dpi model about the size of a stapler that plugs into any USB port and works with popular image-editing programs like Adobe Photoshop Elements. It draws power from your computer, so no batteries or other power supplies are needed. In tests, the Visigo took 25 seconds to scan a 4-in. by 6-in. photo. While it can't handle anything wider than...
Local executives affectionately call him Sheik Mo. From the nickname, you would hardly know that he is the Crown Prince and de facto ruler of Dubai and the man who has directed the tiny emirate's transformation from an ancient Persian Gulf port into a glitzy international hub of spas and skyscrapers--and a beacon of modernity for the Arab world. Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum is building the Singapore of the Middle East, a free port where business and ideas can mix. On behalf of Dubai's ruling al Maktoum clan, Sheik Mohammed, 56, has spurred growth...
...popular Adeang has been fighting to revive what was once one of the world's wealthiest countries. As a young boy, Adeang used to watch the country's fleet of new planes roll up and down the island's runway, and its cargo ships race in and out of port. Now Nauru can only afford to pay him and his fellow ministers, including the nation's president, $A100 a fortnight. Even the minister must rely on relatives catching fish to feed him and his family. It's a sorry fall from the 1960s and '70s when phosphate exports brought...