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...Zarqawi, 36, last year had a leg amputated in Baghdad after he was wounded in the war in Afghanistan. During al-Zarqawi's two-month stay in Baghdad, Powell alleged, two dozen "al-Qaeda affiliates" established a cell in the city. According to Powell, al-Zarqawi, whose whereabouts are unknown, provided weapons and money to the murderers of U.S. diplomat Laurence Foley in Jordan last October. Powell showed the U.N. a satellite photo of a camp he claimed al-Zarqawi had set up in northeastern Iraq to produce poisons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: Iraq and al-Qaeda: What's Behind a Sinister Flirtation | 2/17/2003 | See Source »

...woman who dared to cross the melting ice of the Ohio with her 2-year-old after learning that her master planned to sell the child. Rankin's sons helped her along to the next safe town, whence she eventually made her way to Ontario. Though her name remains unknown, the woman's story, by way of Rankin, reached the ears of Harriet Beecher Stowe, who used her as the basis for Eliza, the slave who flees across the ice floes in Uncle Tom's Cabin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Making Tracks to Freedom | 2/17/2003 | See Source »

...that takes its cues from Pink Floyd to the Stone Roses and have committed to an exhausting tour schedule in the U.S. Another less conventional method to break America is from within. Like Bush and Dido before them, the funk-soul duo known as Floetry are currently almost entirely unknown in their native London, but they're looming large in Philadelphia's neo-soul scene. Both graduates of the Brits Performing Arts School, Marsha Ambrosius and Natalie Stewart had a Top 20 album, wrote for Michael Jackson and were nominated for three Grammys. They fuse spoken poetry to a soulful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Brits Are Coming | 2/16/2003 | See Source »

With my pith hat, khaki shorts and net I wander through the neglected jungles of comix-dom. Considered a "crackpot" by those few who even know that I am deep in-country, I hack away at the bush in search of the unknown and little-cared-for creatures that signal this system still has life. Recently, while hiding from the brutish, ape-like natives who patrol the area, I spied a new species...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the "Cusp" | 2/14/2003 | See Source »

NIGERIA Mystery Blast A massive explosion in the commercial capital, Lagos, destroyed two apartment buildings and a bank, killing at least 46 people and wounding dozens more. The blast, the cause of which is unknown, also sparked looting. Police said debris from explosive devices was found at the scene, which may indicate an illegal cache of explosives caught fire by accident. Police arrested eight men, including two bank guards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 2/9/2003 | See Source »

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