Welcome to America's Best-Run Airport — and Why It's Still Not Good Enough (Airport Security)
As a shooting at LAX raises new security fears, TIME looks at how one airport, Denver International, is coping. No U.S. airport is better equipped to protect flyers. But that doesn't mean it has all the answers

Firing on the Fourth (Airport Security)
In Los Angeles, a man kills two people at an El Al ticket counter. It's monstrous. But is it terrorism?

A Bad Case of FWI (Airport Security)

Are We Losing the Peace?
Deaths at a wedding and a high-level assassination stoke tension in Afghanistan

A Man with Many Enemies

In This Case, Might Is Right
It looks bad. But the U.S. should be wary of the International Criminal Court


French Fiasco
Following Messier's fall at Vivendi, investors ask, Are Big Media companies better off broken up?

Spiriting Away a Fortune


They Call Him Crazy
Rodney Yoder may be one of the nation's most dangerous mental patients. So why is there a movement to free him?


The Sky's The Limit (TIME Bonus Section/Inside Business/Women Executives)
Women execs have taken over top jobs at major airlines, helping them shift focus from hardware to customer service

A Jobless Recovery? (TIME Bonus Section/Inside Business/Forecast)
TIME's Board of Economists predicts slow job growth but no return to recession

Who Owns Pooh? (TIME Bonus Section/Inside Business/Tech Rules)
Disney fights in court over digital rights to a "silly old bear" as new technology casts doubt on old contracts

10 Questions For J.C. Watts (Interview)

Klimt-O-Mania!

Let's Do Lunch — Really! (Essay)
After Michael Ovitz's complaint to Vanity Fair about a Hollywood conspiracy, we sneak a peek at his diary

Networking in the Pews

Verbatim

Numbers (Notebook/Milestones)

A Harvest Of Pork

Enron's Board Games

Sheltering A Puppet Master?
Is al-Qaeda spiritual leader Abu Qatada in the UK?

Letters (Letters)


Birthday Bunny (The Arts/Short Takes/Anniversary)

Bad Boy Brawly Brown (The Arts/Short Takes/Books)
By Walter Mosley

Lovely And Amazing (The Arts/Short Takes/Movies)
Directed By Nicole Holofcener

Heathen Chemistry (The Arts/Short Takes/Music)
Oasis

Door To Door (The Arts/Short Takes/Television)
TNT, July 14, 8 p.m. E.T.

Up For Grabs (The Arts/Short Takes/Theater)
By David Williamson

To Be A Snob Or Not To Be (The Arts/Books)
Joseph Epstein's wry and erudite Snobbery suggests that Americans can get awfully snooty

Writing The Waves (The Arts/Books)
Pull up a beach, me hearties, and settle in to the best of this summer's true tales of the high seas

Shadow's One-Man Band (The Arts/Music)
A DJ who uses samples for notes creates a seductive new album


Should Anyone Take Hormones? (Personal Time/Your Health)
A new study raises disturbing questions about the safety of hormone-replacement therapy

Your Health (Personal Time/Your Health)

Have We Got a Deal for You (Personal Time/Your Money)
You can save a lot if you're willing to buy a car model that is being discontinued or redesigned