Vol. 167 No. 5

BUSINESS

Can This Man Save The American Auto Industry?
company. But can he make cars you'll crave?

"My Goal Is To Fight Toyota..." (Q&A)
The CEO aims to boost investor confidence, save the environment and tackle Toyota

Driving Toward A Snazzier Style (Design)
Dazzling new plans for making a humdrum fleet swing

WORLD

Can Bin Laden Be Caught?
After a year of silence, al-Qaeda's leader resurfaces. But with his health in question and his inner circle shrinking, the U.S. hopes it may not be for long

A Rebel Crack-Up?
defensive

Hits and Misses

SCIENCE

Whodunit, Doggone It?
Inside a four-legged genetics lab, where forensic scientists fight crime with tooth, claw--and DNA

SOCIETY

Where The Real Action Is... (Abortion)
For all the debate in Washington, the battle over abortion is actually in the states, which are imposing more limits than ever. MISSOURI is a case study

Take Two Aspirin and Read This Now (Health)
Is the new Medicare drug mess a bureaucratic hiccup or the sign of a cost-conscious future? TIME takes a look

NOTEBOOK

Rich Ohio But Poor Ohioans

Numbers

Verbatim

It's Easy to Be Hard and Hard to Be Smart (In The Arena)

Digging for Clues After Sago

Penguin vs. Bear: 1-0

Rover to the Rescue

Milestone

Punchlines

47 Years Ago in TIME

Show Enron Some Love

A Slow Iran Squeeze

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

Fun with Fractionals (Time Bonus Section February 2006: Global Business / global life)
Resorts are rebuilding with luxury time shares to attract second-home buyers

The Bank That Ate the World (Time Bonus Section February 2006: Global Business / banking)
After a huge expansion in mature markets, HSBC is speeding efforts to tap the pocketbooks of the new 脙漏lite developing throughout the globe

Losing Our Faith (Time Bonus Section February 2006: Global Business / economics)
At the World Economic Forum, leaders will try to understand why people no longer trust authority

How Sweet It Isn't In the Sugar Trade (Time Bonus Section February 2006: Global Business / World briefing)

Conquering China 101 (Time Bonus Section February 2006: Global Business / world briefing)

The New Maxim: Go East (Time Bonus Section February 2006: Global Business / world briefing)

People to Watch In International Business (Time Bonus Section February 2006: Global Business / world beaters)

NATION

When George Met Jack
White House aides deny the President knew lobbyist Abramoff, but unpublished photos shown to TIME suggest there's more to the story

Hey, Big Spender ...
With the next budget he sends to Congress, Bush wants to remake himself as a fiscal disciplinarian. Will anyone believe him?

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

How the West Was Won Over (Movies)
It's a love story (sigh) between men (yikes!) and a western (yawn). So why is everybody talking about Brokeback Mountain?

Capturing the Cowboys (Movies)

A Taste of Vintage Shandy (Movies)
works

Making a Man of Her (Books)
A woman puts on stubble and pants and spends a year living, bowling and dating as a guy

5 Voices You Need To Hear

YOUR TIME

Heart Songs (Health)
Young doctors are losing their stethoscope skills

10 Most Expensive Colleges (Tuition and fees only) (Money)

Do 529s Pay? (Money)

Doctor's Orders (Health)

PEOPLE

People

10 Questions for Elie Wiesel (Interview)

LETTERS

Read the story

ESSAY

Beautiful Losers
The name of the show is American Idol. So why is it the bad singers we love?