TIME.com This Week: OCT. 8-OCT. 14

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THE TERRORIST AS A YOUNG MAN Nothing in Mohamed Atta's college years in Cairo prepared his friends for his nightmarish final act on Sept. 11. Five of Atta's college friends spoke exclusively to TIME's Amany Radwan in Cairo, trying to understand what turned an awkward, sensitive, frustrated young man into a fanatical mass murderer. time.com/atta

TIME.COM SHIPS OUT Boots shined, bags packed, time.com's own Army reservist Frank Pellegrini shares his thoughts on shipping out to Egypt, unsure of his return date. time.com/frank

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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