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...intently to the local man, who speaks Arabic in a faint voice. (Abdi Salan's native tongue is Somali, but he understands enough Arabic to get by.) The man is tall, lean and dark, wearing a flowing white Arab robe and headdress. He is flanked by a pair of shorter, younger subordinates in Western clothes. The smugglers agree to help Abdi Salan cross the Sahara to Libya, where he hopes to board a boat to Europe. Up until this point, his journey has been routine. But Abdi Salan knows that from here on in, each step must be taken undercover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Desperate Journey | 12/14/2003 | See Source »

...much shorter distances from Albania to southeast Italy or from Morocco to Spain. But the would-be immigrants choose it because it offers the steadiest flow of outgoing boats. As the Somalis approach the edge of Kufra, a swarm of Libyans comes to greet them. "Tripoli! Tripoli! Benghazi!" the local men bark. "Where do you want to go? We have food. Do you want a place to stay?" Abdi Salan has little choice, agreeing to spend $150 for a hot meal, two nights' lodging and a jeep ride north to Benghazi, Libya's second-largest city. The Kufra smugglers convince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Desperate Journey | 12/14/2003 | See Source »

LaBelle says she tries hard to eat smart--avoiding salt and fried chicken, eating cheese-steak sandwiches without cheese or bread. "I can be bad," she admits. "But I know the badder I am, the shorter my life. And I'm not ready to leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Diabetes Lifestyle: A Star's Smart Cookbook | 12/8/2003 | See Source »

Louis Bakens, who manages Eijsbouts’s international business, said that the Lowell bells will not be so difficult, because they are in a shorter tower and consist of many fewer bells...

Author: By Joshua D. Gottlieb, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Accounting for the Bells’ Toll | 12/5/2003 | See Source »

...shorter event, Grant, senior Jonathan Lin and freshman Joe Christiana converged on the wall within 1.33 seconds of one another—Grant touched in 57.52, Lin in 58.30 and Christiana...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Men's Swimming Cools Columbia | 11/25/2003 | See Source »

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