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...feds figure he was just a "mope"--G-man jargon for an expendable figure--an amateur with the least skills who gets the job with the most exposure. That explains why he was nervous enough to catch Customs' attention as he came off the ferry at Port Angeles, Wash. It also explains why he was careless enough to leave a paper trail. Ressam's pockets produced a scrap of paper scribbled with the name "Ghani." That took the FBI to their next suspect, Abdel Ghani Meskini, an Algerian expatriate living in Brooklyn, N.Y. A snitch told the FBI that Meskini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bin Laden's Boys? | 2/7/2000 | See Source »

...silence, impressed and anxious to overhear. Girls ask him to sign dollar bills, t-shirts, old receipts, anything that they have on them. One girl in a binding tank top gets him to sign her hand. A smart-ass friend of hers reminds her that she'll have to wash her hand eventually. I can't tell whether the girl is going to cry or punch her friend in the nose. She rubs the writing to her face...

Author: By Deirdre Mask, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wonderful World Of MTV | 2/4/2000 | See Source »

...lack of imagination and permanence. So we shot off some fireworks, drank some booze and dumped some confetti on our shrinking world. Whoop-de-do! Where are the articulated dreams of Utopia? Does this shallow and short-lived celebration portend the new age's dawning? BRIAN WAID West Seattle, Wash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 31, 2000 | 1/31/2000 | See Source »

...from chronic diseases of the heart, lungs or kidneys; diabetes; a weakened immune system; or if you live with or care for an elderly person. It'll take two weeks for any appreciable protection to build up, and some areas have already run out of vaccine. In the meantime, wash your hands a lot and pop some vitamin C. It may not keep Mr. Flu from knocking on your door, but it can't hurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Be Flued | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

Ally McBeal writers alert! Reality is stealing your material. Last week a Miami teen claimed an Internet addiction rendered him unaware of the consequences of a threatening e-mail he sent to a Columbine High student. Will it wash in court? It's unlikely, but not unprecedented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If the Twinkie Causes Fits, You Must Acquit | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

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