Vol. 159 No. 25

WORLD

Afghanistan Today

WAR & TERRORISM

The Next Wave (War On Terror)
DIRTY-BOMB, CAR-BOMB, BOAT-BOMB PLOTS--MEET THE NEW AL-QAEDA MEN, LESS POLISHED THAN THE 9/11 CREW, BUT ANY LESS LETHAL?

More Wins Than Losses (War On Terror)

The Case Of The Dirty Bomber (War On Terror)
HOW A CHICAGO STREET GANGSTER ALLEGEDLY BECAME A SOLDIER FOR OSAMA BIN LADEN

Defusing The Terror (War On Terror / Radiological Weapons)
A "dirty bomb" is nothing at all like a true nuke, but it can still do real damage. A little knowledge can help you separate alarming fact from alarmist fiction

Uncharted Legal Territory (War On Terror)
CIVIL LIBERTIES

SCIENCE

A Sister Solar System? (Space)
A nearby star and its Jupiter-like planets look an awful lot like home

The Fatal Promise of Cloning
Advocates say they will never create human fetuses. Can we believe them?

NOTEBOOK

Notebook

The Other Mideast War

We're Not Oprah!

Milestones (Milestones)

A Win For The Kitties

The Search for Deep Throat: John Dean's Picks

The Disc That Told All

The Bishops Get Off The Hook
WHAT HAPPENED IN DALLAS?

Numbers (Numbers)

Your Tax Dollars At Work

BUSINESS

Sam's Club
ImClone's Waksal is accused of trying to dump company stock ahead of bad news. He couldn't, but his friend Martha Stewart unloaded hers. Did she do a bad thing?

What About the Drug?
ERBITUX

Called to Account
Guilty of obstruction, Arthur Andersen becomes the first courtroom casualty of the Enron collapse

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

About Tom (The Arts / Show Business)
What makes Tom tick? A behind-the-scenes look at the life of a mega-star

No Artificial Intelligence; Just Smart Fun (The Arts / Show Business)
THE REVIEW

Spielberg's List: What a Director Who Has It All Wants to Do Next (The Arts / Show Business)

His Dark Vision of the Future Is Now (The Arts / Show Business)

Papa Tells All (The Arts / Music)
Confessional metal is fine, but can't we have fun too?

Stitch in Time? (The Arts / Movies)
Can this Disney cartoon save traditional animation?

Scooby-Doo (The Arts / Short Takes)
Directed by Raja Gosnell

Class Action (The Arts / Short Takes)
By Clara Bingham and Laura Leedy Gansler

"A Cabinet Of Curiosities" (The Arts / Short Takes)
New York Public Library

Masquerade (The Arts / Short Takes)
Wyclef Jean

Street Time (The Arts / Short Takes)
Showtime, Sundays, 10 p.m. E.T.

YOUR TIME

Happiest Baby On the Block (Personal Time / Your Lifestyle)
Harvey Karp, M.D.

The Trust-No-One Investing Plan (Personal Time / Your Money)
Corporate scandals got you scared of stocks? Try bonds, whose returns aren't as low as you think

New Hope for an Ailing Heart (Personal Time / Your Health)
Heart failure sounds fatal. It doesn't have to be, with new drugs and now, maybe, pacemakers

Palm Springs: Hot but Cool (Personal Time / Your Lifestyle)

Demystifier (Personal Time / Your Lifestyle)

Your Health (Personal Time / Your Health)

Tan Lines (Personal Time / Your Lifestyle)

SPECIAL SECTION

Dream Fields (Time Bonus Section / Generations)
Baseball fans hit the road for camaraderie and nostalgia

Ticklish Times (Time Bonus Section / Generations)
With aging parents, midlife offspring must balance concern and control

A '50s Feeling (Time Bonus Section / Generations)
Authors Anne Bernays and Justin Kaplan write a luminous memoir about their mid-century youth

To the Summit (Time Bonus Section / Generations)
A top architect recalls how he raised both a building and his kids

PEOPLE

People

TO OUR READERS

Reporters' Notebook (Reporters' Notebook)
This week, our journalists profiled a mega-star, chased terrorists and photographed a nation. Their thoughts:

LETTERS

Read the story

ESSAY

Don Hollywood
The Mafia gave the movies material. The movies gave John Gotti a script