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Miller is singlehandedly lifting the traditionally underperforming U.S. ski team to a level not seen since Phil and Steve Mahre topped the rankings in the early 1980s. Miller has posted wins in all four disciplines on the circuit: the high-speed events, which include the downhill and the super-G...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speed Demon | 2/6/2005 | See Source »

Khan's right-hand man, what an intelligence official calls the managing director of his operation, was Buhary Sayed Abu Tahir, 44, a Sri Lankan whom Khan first met in Dubai in the mid-'90s. Tahir idolized Khan, mimicking him in sometimes expensive ways. In homage to the boss's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Sold the Bomb | 2/6/2005 | See Source »

When several Italian coast-guard cutters set out from the industrial port city of Taranto on that country's southeastern coast on Oct. 4, 2003, they had specific orders: to detain and board a German-flagged cargo ship called the BBC China, then heading for Libya. The seizure had, in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Sold the Bomb | 2/6/2005 | See Source »

Dozens of silent stars failed in the talking pictures that went from novelty in 1927 to the norm by 1930. Wong had garnered raves for speaking German with a natural precision in her first talkie, Hai-Tang. Her West End stage debut in The Circle of Chalk, though, was calamitous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Anna May Win | 2/3/2005 | See Source »

The technique, which generates high resolution pictures, has also revealed surprising precision of brain cell organization in the visual cortex of cats.

Author: By Katherine G. Chan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Method To Track Neurons | 2/2/2005 | See Source »

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