Vol. 158 No. 23

NATION

If Not Terror, What Was It? (After The Crash / Air Safety)
With no evidence of sabotage in the New York City crash, the focus shifts to the plane and its pilots

The Feds Take On Airport Security (After The Crash / Passenger Screening)

One Family, Two Tragedies (After The Crash / The Victims)

WAR & TERRORISM

Blood and Joy (The War On Terror / Photo Essay)

The Hunt For Bin Laden (The War On Terror / The War)
WITH THE TALIBAN ROUTED, U.S. AND ALLIED FORCES HIT THE GROUND TO TAKE OUT THEIR MAIN TARGET. INSIDE THE EXTRAORDINARY SEARCH

A Special Report From Afghanistan (The War On Terror / Dispatches)

Can The Afghans Come Together? (The War On Terror / After The War)
Unity looks far away as rival pretenders to power seize fiefdoms all across the country

What Is Al-Qaeda Without Its Boss? (The War On Terror / Terrorism)
The answer: no matter what happens to bin Laden, the group still has many tentacles

And Justice For... (The War On Terror / The Legal War)
The White House wants to try terrorists in secret. Is this really in America's best interest?

Eyewitness to a Sudden and Bloody Liberation (The War On Terror / Dispatches)

Mass Slaughter Of the Taliban's Foreign Jihadists (The War On Terror / Dispatches)

A Volatile State Of Siege After a Taliban Ambush (The War On Terror / Dispatches)

Inside The Terrorists' Lairs (The War On Terror / Terrorism)

NOTEBOOK

Five Years Ago in TIME (Milestones)

Notebook

When Dynasties Call A Truce

Safety Lessons from Tragedy

I Feel Your Acne

Milestones (Milestones)

Frosty the Flag Waver (Trend Alert)

Jordan on the Terror Trail (Spy Watch)

The New Anthrax Letter: Why Senator Leahy? (Follow-Up)

The Sit-Room Waiting List (Inside The White House)

Farhad Darya (Q&A)

For The Record (For The Record)

Limits of Trust

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

In Defense Of Secret Tribunals
Why Bush is right: at a time of critical danger, we can't afford a legal circus

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Growing Up In Hell (The Arts / Books)
A fine, flinty memoir from Intel's Andy Grove

Films That Are Good In Bed (The Arts / Cinema)
Who makes smart, serious, sexy movies? The French

It's Charles In Charge (The Arts / Television)
Barkley's wit makes Inside the NBA must-see TV

YOUR TIME

Harvesting Stock-Market Losses (Personal Time / Your Money)
Losing money this year? Who isn't? But there's still time to convert those beaten-down stocks into tax savings

The Write Stuff (Personal Time / Your Technology)
Want a computer you can scribble on? Meet the Tablet PC. I got my hands on an early version

New Hope for Failing Hearts (Personal Time / Your Health)
With transplants so scarce, thousands of patients could get the boost they need from a small, implanted pump

The Heart Beat (Personal Time / Your Health)

Best Of Show (Personal Time / Your Technology)

SPECIAL SECTION

Making The World Safer (Time 100: The Next Wave / Innovators)

Global Briefing (Global Business / Global Briefing)

Selling in Tongues (Global Business / Exporting)
Translation services are booming because global customers want to buy in their native language

Local English (Global Business / Exporting)
More cultures adopt their own versions of the "global tongue"

And What Does It Mean in Farsi? (Global Business / Exporting)
Ad slogans that are successful in English don't always travel well

Cheap Euro Airfares (Global Business / Business Travel)
Global firms push execs onto the E.U.'s new discount airlines

High-Tech Nomads (Global Business / High Tech)
These engineers work as temps on wireless projects all over the world

World Beaters (Global Business / World Beaters)
People To Watch In International Business

Tokyo Tempts (Global Business / Global Life)
The city as natives know it offers simple delights at low prices

Free-Trade Hypocrites (Global Business)
Rich countries should stop blocking food and fiber exports from poor ones

Climbing Inside The Criminal Mind (Time 100: The Next Wave / Innovators)
THE BRAIN SCIENTIST

A Secret In Light (Time 100: The Next Wave / Innovators)
THE CODE WARRIOR

Keeping The Hackers At Bay (Time 100: The Next Wave / Innovators)
THE CYBERWARRIOR

A Killer Drone (Time 100: The Next Wave / Innovators)
THE GENERAL

Sniffing Out Bioterrorism (Time 100: The Next Wave / Innovators)
THE GERM DETECTOR

Your Eyes Can Tell No Lies (Time 100: The Next Wave / Innovators)
THE IRIS SCANNER