Campaign Finance: Looking for the Loopholes
Twenty-eight years after the last campaign-finance reforms, new rules look set to take effect. Will they be tough enough to clean up the game?


Equal-Opportunity Crisis
The G.O.P. hoped Global Crossing would be the Democrats' Enron. Now it's everybody's mess


Steeling Jobs (Global Business/Protectionism)
America's ailing mills want another bailout--with the cost falling on companies that use steel

Managing VIP Money
Today's top financial boutiques offer private-equity funds and other goodies

Global Briefing (Global Business/Global Briefing)

Foreign Invaders (Global Business/High Tech)
A quiet New York City venture fund is taking over Japanese businesses that are beloved--and broke

Asia's New Steel Tiger (Global Business/Protectionism)
Does South Korea's POSCO compete fairly?

Sweet Subsidy (Global Business/Protectionism)
U.S. sugar tariffs cost consumers and workers

Classy Tequila (Global Business/The Global Life)
Fine vintages of the agave-based liquor win fans around the world

Catfish by Any Other Name (Global Business/Trademarks)
Chauvinism turns to protectionism, as regions claim rights to the names of common foods

People to Watch in International Business (Global Business/World Beaters)

The Shoe Bomber's World
What does the saga of Richard Rreid tell us about al-Qaeda? TIME retraces his trail to find out

Who Built Reid's Shoes?

Inside the Hurricane (Letter From Gaza)
TIME visits the worst place of all to be an Israeli soldier--or a Palestinian

Murder in the Airport
After one of his top officials is killed, Afghanistan's leader struggles to keep his fragile nation united


The Pirates Of Prime Time (Technology)
Anyone want to trade some episodes of The Simpsons online? TV Land is getting Napsterized

Beyond Hollywood's Reach (Technology/Movies Online)

Here, Kitty, Kitty! (Science)
If the first cloned house pet can melt your heart, how will you react to the first cloned child?

On Their Own Two Feet (Medicine)
A TIME columnist bears witness to an operation to help triplets with cerebral palsy walk like other boys


Color Crosses Over (The Arts/Television)
After years of video apartheid, African American-oriented sitcoms are starting to reach white viewers

Screen Teens (The Arts/Movies)
Led by Britney Spears, a gang of pop princesses goes all out to storm the 'plexes

Hooray, Ron; Sorry, Baz (Behind The Oscars)

Tales of the Naked City (The Arts/Photography)
Louis Faurer's intricate portraits of New York captured its vulnerability and its invincibility


Camp Stay-at-Home (Personal Time/Your Family)
The recession and Sept. 11 jitters have some parents choosing not to send kids away. Will the backyard do?

In Brief (Personal Time/Your Family)

In Praise of Folic Acid (Personal Time/Your Health)
Could the B vitamin that helps prevent birth defects also protect against Alzheimer's? The news is promising

Your Health (Personal Time/Your Health)

Hitting All the Wrong Notes (Personal Time/Your Technology)
Napster and other fee-based music services are trying to lure us from free song swapping. They'd better try harder