Vol. 167 No. 12
COVER
Big, bold ideas used to come from small groups of experts. Now they come from you as well. Here's our annual look at what's new and innovative--from politics to movies, medicine to fashion, sports to tech
Why The Boss May Treat You Right (Workplace)
New sensitivity training at the office focuses on all the little ways a tone-deaf manager can demoralize a staff
Returning To The Moon (Space)
Three decades after the last Apollo flew, new American crews may walk the lunar soil. Here's how they'll go
Can This Man Save The Movies? (Again?) (Movies)
In the digital era, is film dead? As audiences gravitate to DVDs, Hollywood wonders if the movie theater can survive. The rebels are surging. Can the Empire strike back?
Curveballs Are In Play (Architecture)
After the Bilbao Guggenheim, architects are taking ever wilder trips into the light fantastic
(Medicine)
From Exubera to Zostavax to Miraviroc, the pharmaceutical pipeline is filled with promise
An Eye On The White House And An Eye On You (Campaigns)
Forget television ads. In 2008, candidates will watch your Web searches and cozy up to your friends
It's All In The Bag (Fashion)
At Coach, designers have perfected the science of divining the next hot handbag. Inside their system
The NASCAR Of Tomorrow (Sport)
It's a lot safer and a little slower, but this vehicle hands racing back to the drivers
New Ways To Think About Old Diseases (Medicine)
Around The Corner (Forum)
NOTEBOOK
Blogwatch
Water, Water Everywhere
Milestones
Verbatim
The Dubai Deal You Don't Know About
Caught With Your Pants Down
Iraq-War Vets: The Democrats' Newest Weapon (In The Arena)
Punchlines
Numbers
India Plays the Lobbying Game
Thwarted Justice
NATION
Arrests of three promising college students in the Alabama church burnings have people asking, Why?
Can Hillary Join the Club?
The Senator is laying the groundwork for a possible presidential run in 2008, but is she too polarizing to win it?
WORLD
America's ambassador to Iraq is trying hard. But a day spent at his side reveals what he's up against
BUSINESS
Miniclinics are popping up in retail stores, offering cheap but limited service--and competition to M.D.s
SCIENCE
Bird flu could hit the U.S. in the next few months. But poultry farmers are gearing up to beat it back
SOCIETY
They fled after 9/11. But now thousands of Saudi students are attending U.S. colleges again
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
After two critically exalted novels, rising star Colson Whitehead comes up with a clunker
The Man Who Can't Miss (Books)
James Patterson writes four best sellers a year. How does he do it? With a lot of help from friends
6 Totally Funny TV Series (Television)
Here are three debuts and three whose first season you may have missed
YOUR TIME
Don't Lose Credit! (Money)
PEOPLE
They are the masters of shoe-leather research. When disease strikes, they figure out whodunit
Microbe-Busting Bandages (Innovators / Epidemiology: Forging the Future)
Keeping The Beaches Safe (Innovators / Epidemiology: Forging the Future)
Sex, Money and Power In India (Innovators / Epidemiology: Forging the Future)
People
Tracking the Addicts (Innovators / Epidemiology: Forging the Future)
10 Questions for Jodie Foster (Interview)
LETTERS
ESSAY
An author takes a ride on Hollywood's Tilt-a-Whirl and gets a little dizzy