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Since last May, when FBI director Robert Mueller held a televised news conference to plead for news of el-Shukrijumah, tips have poured in placing him everywhere from Niagara Falls, N.Y., to Tegucigalpa, Honduras. "He's kind of like Elvis," an intelligence official told TIME. "He seems to pop up all over the place." The last place he can credibly be traced to, however, is Waziristan. FBI agents call el-Shukrijumah the next Atta--after Mohamed Atta, the Egyptian ringleader of the 9/11 attacks. Investigators are trying to learn whether the versatile el-Shukrijumah helped case the buildings featured...
...confounded the Wall Street investment banks, which usually take a larger commission from such deals, but so far Google's unusual IPO has been a hit for a happy handful of investors. Those who waded through the search engine's complex Dutch auction got the stock at $85 a pop, $23 less than the original lowest price expected, then saw it rise more than 27% in the first two days of trading. That put the stock at $108 - exactly where co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin advised it would be. Along with CEO Eric Schmidt, Page and Brin remain...
...Tito 17, Jermaine 16, Marlon 14. They sing some, and play guitar. Michael, the lead singer, is twelve. They are brothers, and taken together they add up to the Jackson Five, a group that in hardly more than a year has become the biggest thing to hit Pop Capitalism since the advent of the Beatles. They had four hit singles in 1970, two more already this year, four albums, with all 10 releases selling in the millions, and one (I'll Be There) already well over 4,000,000 ... They have their own magazine, a quarterly in which fans...
...elements of No. 3 taking shape." ... The oil bust has spoiled the economics of alternative energy as well. Many of the ballyhooed 1970s-era programs to extract petroleum from oil shale and tar sands have been mothballed because they cost too much to operate. The hundreds of mom-and-pop solar-power companies that sprang up in the past decade have mostly folded, even in the Sunbelt. Says Susan deWitt, executive director for the California Solar Energy Industries Association: "Our customers no longer feel the urgency to pursue renewable energy." --TIME, April...
...especially last week, as the friends and fanatics of John Kerry and George W. Bush mobilized themselves for the general election. A flying squad of Vietnam veterans--not directly related to the Bush campaign--launched a slime attack on John Kerry's war record. A flying squad of pop musicians--not directly related to the Kerry campaign--announced that they would launch a massive October concert tour to save the nation from President Bush. The people of Missouri voted overwhelmingly against gay marriage. And, of course, there was the usual array of screechers and squawkers polluting the airwaves, dominating public...