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What a Difference A Year Makes: As the anniversary of 9/11 nears, most Americans are still taking stock, wondering if life really has changed. For 11 people profiled in this issue, the answer is clear

The Daughter: Dealing with a parent's death is hard enough. But Hilary Strauch has had to do it in a fishbowl

The Survivor: Genelle Guzman-McMillan was the last person found alive in the debris of Ground Zero. Having cheated death, she isn't quite sure how to live

The President: Sept. 11 helped George W. Bush find his voice. But if he doesn't focus on domestic issues with the same determination, he may find himself out of a job

The Soldier: Randel Perez didn't join the army to be a hero. But in early March, he suddenly became one

The Muslim Teen: Sana Shah likes to think of herself as a global citizen, but lately she has felt torn between the two worlds she loves most, Islam and America

The Afghan Woman: Now that the Taliban has fallen, General Khatol Muhammadzai is enjoying her newfound freedom‹and keeping the army in shape

The Flight Attendants: When the alleged shoe bomber struck in December, Cristina Jones and Hermis Moutardier became unlikely soldiers in an unusual war

The Inspector: At a busy Canadian border crossing, customs chief Ben Anderson is the first line of defense

The Lawyer: How Donna Newman rose from obscurity to become a civil liberties crusader suing the President

The Special Master: As head of the Victim Compensation Fund, Ken Feinberg has to be part rabbi, part shrink, as he calculates what individual lives are worth

VITAL STATISTICS
The Numbers: Tallying up the toll of Sept. 11

ESSAYS
Andrew Sullivan: Why life will never be the same

Michael Elliott: Why life hasn't really changed

Gilles Kepel: For all its fiery rhetoric and explosive tactics, militant Islam is already starting to look burned out

Ali Salem: An Arab intellectual apologizes, and explains

Rudy Giuliani: Building the right kind of memorial

Philip Bobbitt: Virtual states are a new, elusive threat

John McCain: The only way to defeat terrorism is to fight for democracy everywhere — including in Iraq

Michael Kinsley: Let's worry less about terrorism

WEB-ONLY STORIES
Legal Limit: Since 9-11 the American government has swiftly maneuvered to combat terrorists at home and abroad. Yale Law Professor Ruth Wedgwood assesses whether we've gone too far

Partners in Grief: After losing her daughter in the crash of flight 93 in Shanksville, Pa., a mother returns to the site of the crash to discover a friend

PHOTO ESSAYS
Shadow to Light: The attacks and the aftermath
>> Choose: High-speed | Low-speed

A City of Ashes: Eugene Richards captures a grieving city

Remains of a Day: Rarely seen photos from the Fresh Kills landfill

Through Children's Eyes: Young perspectives on 9/11

Digging Out Ground Zero: Documenting the clean-up

TIME ARCHIVE
Cover Collection: Browse every TIME cover related to Sept. 11 and its aftermath

The Secret History: A cover story examining what happened in the months before the 9/11 attacks

Sept. 11 Archive: From Ground Zero to the war, a guide to our most compelling coverage

LIFE PHOTOS
The American Spirit : Meeting the challenge of Sept. 11

Faces of Ground Zero: Portraits of the heroes of 9/11

One Nation: America remembers Sept. 11