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PHOTO ESSAY ANATOMY OF THE AFGHAN PRISON REVOLT

TIME's Alex Perry was the only journalist at the Qala-i-Jangi fortress when Taliban prisoners staged a bloody uprising. He was the first to report the initial American casualty of the war, CIA officer Johnny Micheal Spann, and filed riveting daily updates of the situation to TIME.com throughout the three-day affair.

Read his gripping account, and see a photo essay of the battlefield by Russian photographer Oleg Nikishin, who was the first photographer on the scene, at time.com/perry

INVENTIONS WE'VE GOT "IT"

Some call it Ginger. Others refer to it as It. Some lucky enough to have seen it have hailed it as an invention that could have an impact on the world every bit as large as the car and the personal computer. Visit TIME.com to see a 3-D model, then tell us what you think. Will this revolutionize the way we move around town, or is this just a very cool and very expensive scooter? Go to time.com/segway

EXCERPT AALIYAH'S LIFE AND TIMES

TIME critic Christopher John Farley interviewed hip-hop superstar Aaliyah shortly before she died last August in a plane crash. This week, in an excerpt from his forthcoming book, Aaliyah: More Than a Woman, Farley looks at her last movie role, as the vampire Akasha in Queen of the Damned, at time.com/sampler

WEB LORE E-MAIL A SOLDIER

Concerns over mail safety have prompted the U.S. military to suspend letter-writing campaigns that allowed American citizens to send support to service members during the holidays. Instead, the Pentagon says, use the Web, and it is encouraging well wishers to send correspondence through a website accessible to all military personnel. Go to http://anyservicemember.navy.mil/

WEEKLY WEB GUIDE GEORGE ON THE WEB

--Each week we pick a few stories from the magazine and give you the essential websites to round out each one. This week see where to find the sheet music to George Harrison's and the Beatles' biggest hits and which karaoke websites allow you to sing Something.

--Plus see and hear the TIME 100 piece on the Beatles, read our Beatles Top 10, then give us your own picks: time.com/webguide

ONLINE CHATS

Every week, TIME writers and editors chat on AOL about the news. This week we look at homeland security, the collapse of energy giant Enron, and the highly anticipated debut of the top-secret invention Ginger. Go to AOL, Keyword: Live.

--DAN GOODGAME directs TIME's coverage of business and the economy, including this week's story on the spectacular collapse of energy-trading firm Enron and a special report on the 25 most influential global business leaders, available on TIME.com at time.com/influentials Chat with him live on Monday, Dec. 3, at 8 p.m. E.T.

--JOSH TYRANGIEL pulls triple duty for this week's issue: he reviews Garth Brooks' new album, writes an Olympic ski preview and profiles three men detained in the Justice Department's antiterrorism investigation. "That's what happens," he says, "when they assign stories using a dartboard." Chat with Josh live about all these subjects on Tuesday, Dec. 4, at 8 p.m. E.T.

--JACKSON DYKMAN has spent the past few months creating those incredibly detailed and informative maps charting the war in Afghanistan that appear each week in TIME. This week he took on a new challenge: visually representing the invention of the moment, the highly anticipated scooter known as Ginger. Chat with him live on Wednesday, Dec. 5, at 8 p.m. E.T.

--JOHN HEILEMANN is an award-winning journalist who has been writing about the ups and downs of Silicon Valley for more than a decade. This week he wrote our exclusive and entertaining story revealing what Ginger actually is, after spending time riding on it and talking with its inventor. Chat with him about this groundbreaking invention--and decide whether it will change our lives--on Thursday, Dec. 6, at 8 p.m. E.T.