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...uncertain, but he did pick up a deadly trade: a bombing spree he purportedly planned in Manila 13 months ago killed 22 people and injured 80. The school in the east Java town of Ngruki, near Solo, where Fathur got his brand of religion was founded by Abubakar Ba'asyir, a 64-year-old Islamic cleric. Police in Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines believe Abubakar is the leader of a network of terrorist cells called Jemaah Islamiah, a Southeast Asian version of al-Qaeda with possible links to Osama bin Laden's group. Abubakar was not at the school while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Untangling The Web | 2/4/2001 | See Source »

...airline has plans to start a low-cost carrier in 2001 that will compete directly with the five domestic firms still aloft. And because Air Canada is the only international carrier with regularly scheduled flights across Canada, it has played hardball with giants like British Airways, hiking the price BA paid Canadian Airlines to have its passengers flown to its destinations of Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver from smaller Canadian cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Plane Spotter | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

...Bombay, 940 people sit at terminals in a huge, air-conditioned hall, working for World Network Services, a unit of British Airways. They perform a variety of long-distance functions--tracking cargo, processing reservations, collating sales--for BA and other carriers. Qualifications for the jobs aren't high. Anyone who knows English and can use a keyboard can apply. WNS general manager Roy Marshall says the company looked at several countries before settling on India. The main reason: so many people speak English that expansion would never be a problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reincarnating India | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

...Veronica number called "Why Don't They Let Us Fall In Love." Phil opens with a seismic riff - a sax line of tectonic dimension, especially on crankin? speakers - but the song's just starting, and the second time through he adds the backup vocals: "Bop bop bop, bop bop ba-dah-dah dah-dah..." I'm sitting on that couch in the dark, my next-door neighbor is pounding on the wall, and I can't get up to turn it down! I am not prepared for this - I haven't even heard the chorus and I'm like - what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Obsessionist | 10/13/2000 | See Source »

...Ba-da-boom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George W.'s Ordeal by Oprah | 9/20/2000 | See Source »

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