Vol. 159 No. 3

NATION

Terror In The Statehouse
Never mind their budget blues. It's an election year, so politicians are singing about homeland security

Who's Accountable?
Inside the growing Enron scandal: how evidence was shredded and top executives fished for a bailout as the company imploded

Despair Beneath His Wings
A troubled past may have led a teen to copy a suicide mission

WORLD

Postmarked Tehran
Sharon pins the Palestinian gunrunner operation on Iran, and here, say the Israelis, is the evidence

WAR & TERRORISM

What's Become Of Al-Qaeda? (The War)
The U.S. has killed or seized hundreds of bin Laden's fighters, but many are still on the loose. A progress report on the war on terror

The Case Of The Disappearing Prisoners (The War / Afghan Justice)

Inside Al-Qaeda (The War / TIME Exclusive)

HEALTH & MEDICINE

Can We Learn To Beat The Reaper? (Staying Healthy)
Science has been winning battles against old age, but can it win the war?

How To Keep The Doctor Away (Staying Healthy)

Vaccines Stage A Comeback (Staying Healthy)
They defeated some of the deadliest diseases known to man. Now they are helping defend us against bioterrorism. And soon, inoculations may protect us from killers like AIDS, Ebola, heart disease and e

A Public Mess (Staying Healthy)
The government's clumsy handling of anthrax exposed the weaknesses of a public-health system gone off the rails. Can it be set right?

Playing Chicken With Our Antibiotics (Staying Healthy)
Overtreatment is creating dangerously resistant germs

10 Foods That Pack A Wallop (Staying Healthy)
Eat, drink and be healthy! Scientists are rapidly identifying the natural chemicals that give preventive punch to a rainbow of ordinary edibles

Power Foods: Do They Work? (Staying Healthy)

Walk, Don't Run (Staying Healthy)
It's simple, it's cheap, and studies show that walking may be the best exercise for reducing the risk of heart disease, stroke and diabetes

Too Heavy, Too Young (Staying Healthy)
Obesity is rapidly becoming the major health crisis of the next generation. What parents can do to help kids control their own weight

Preventive Parenting (Staying Healthy)
Paying attention to a baby's unique personality may head off problems before they happen

Our A To Z Guide To Advances In Medicine (Staying Healthy / Advances in Medicine)
From Alzheimer's and artificial hearts to stem cells, smallpox and the Zone diet, 2001 was a busy year in medicine for doctors and patients alike. A guide to the key developments

SOCIETY

Penalty For Rink Rage
After a hockey dad's conviction, a hard question lingers: How can parents be kept from losing control?

Outside The Gates (TIME In Depth)
THIS YEAR THE NATION'S PRISONS WILL RELEASE MORE THAN 630,000 PEOPLE--A NEW RECORD. AMANDA RIPLEY FOLLOWS ONE MAN'S STRUGGLE TO STAY

Beyond Grace (Fashion)
By the time Yves Saint Laurent retired, he had changed everything about fashion

SPORT

Air-Ing It Out Again
Michael Jordan has defied time and made the woeful Wizards a team worth watching

NOTEBOOK

Eight Years Ago In TIME

Notebook

Is The Disabilities Act Disabled?

Milestones (Milestones)

All That You Can Be

Where's Cheney? (Inside The White House)

Airline Security Got You Down? Talk To The Pilots

The Week In Fingerprints

For The Record (For The Record)

A Shoe Bomb Is No One-Man Job (Terror Probe)

A Near Miss From Outer Space

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

The Case For A National ID Card
Big Brother already knows where you live. Why not let him make you safer?

When War Becomes This Personal

TIME.com (Time.com)
JANUARY 14-20

When The Hero Takes A Fall

Dealing With The N word

BUSINESS

Bush In The Glare
The Enron mess may revive a tough question: Whose side is this President on?

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Top Performances (The Arts / Cinema)
LOOKING FOR ADVICE ABOUT THE BEST HOLIDAY MOVIES TO SEE? TRY THE ONES IN WHICH THESE SIX TERRIFIC ACTORS APPEAR Halle Berry MONSTER'S BALL

The Replacements (The Arts / Television)
The midseason shows are here, and they look a lot like ones you've already seen--just not as good

Mad About The Mitfords (The Arts / Books)
A delightful biography of the eccentric British sisters

Roots (The Arts / Short Takes)

Anthony LaPaglia (The Arts / Cinema)
LANTANA

Benjamin Bratt (The Arts / Cinema)
PINERO

Jim Broadbent (The Arts / Cinema)
IRIS

Jennifer Connelly (The Arts / Cinema)
A BEAUTIFUL MIND

Jamie Foxx (The Arts / Cinema)
ALI

Behind The Sun (The Arts / Short Takes)
Directed by Walter Salles

9-11: Emergency Relief (The Arts / Short Takes)

Extreme Beauty: The Body Transformed (The Arts / Short Takes)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

Brutal Imagination (The Arts / Short Takes)
By Cornelius Eady

YOUR TIME

Riding In Cars With Girls (Personal Time / Your Family)
When it comes to unsafe driving, girls are reaching parity with boys. Here are tips for improving teen skills

Reinventing The Radio (Personal Time / Your Technology)
Satellite radio promises 100 static-free stations. To hear for myself, I jumped into a Caddy and took it on a road test

Been Down So Long... (Personal Time / Your Health)
Prozac and other new drugs triggered a revolution in the treatment of depression. But do we still need the couch?

Your Health (Personal Time / Your Health)

Your Technology (Personal Time / Your Technology)

SPECIAL SECTION

Buddy System (Time Bonus Section / Generations)
More folks are making their closest friends a priority in their retirement scheme

Caricature Builder (Time Bonus Section / Generations)
At 98, artist Al Hirschfeld still limns show folk with a sure hand

Blue Period (Time Bonus Section / Generations)
The singer-songwriter tells how his 21-year-old self helps him face life

PEOPLE

People

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