A Front Runner Already?
With a strong team and solid credentials, John Kerry is attracting the Democrats who matter

The Really Unfair Tax
Bush wants to drop the "double tax" on dividends, but that's not the one that burdens most Americans

A Screech of Hawks (In The Arena)


Cracking The Ice
Antarctica is a vast, frozen mystery. Is it thawing, threatening coastal cities? Or is it, in fact, freezing? What scientists have learned

Skipping Chemo (Your Time)
A lot of breast-cancer survivors are doing it, not always for good reasons

One Tokes, The Other Doesn't (Your Time/Health Brief)


9/11 Probe: Aiming High
The commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks wants to talk to top Bush Administration officials

Who Killed Daniel Pearl?
Pakistani police sources now say the executioner was a top al-Qaeda terrorist

Anxiety Meter
What we're worried about this week: a Homeland Security color-coded guide

Numbers

Discovering a Jurassic Highflyer

Verbatim

A Lame Duck's Revenge

A New Tune For Delta

Exiles of the Rich and Infamous

Nebraska Tests Bush

Letters (Letters)

6 Reasons Why So Many Allies Want Bush To Slow Down (World/The Diplomacy)
They want more proof, they like inspections, and they don't like Cowboy Bush. And yes, there's more

Can They Strike Back? (World/The War On Terrorism)
U.S. war planners believe the battle will go quickly. But Saddam or al-Qaeda may respond in ways that could prove catastrophic — over there and here at home

Tony Blair's Big Gamble
Why the British leader is risking his job to back Bush, while others balk


He Drew Like An Angel (Arts/Art)
A superb show surveys the conflicted, elusive but masterly graphics of Leonardo da Vinci

The Next Friday (Television)
Law & Order tycoon Dick Wolf expands his thriving cop-show empire with a new Dragnet

Rewriting the Romance (Books)
Bodice rippers are more popular than ever, and Julia Quinn is taking them into the postfeminist future


A Vigorous Voice from The Right — at Berkeley! (On The Campus/University Of California, Berkeley)
A conservative magazine makes inroads in a bastion of liberal student activism


Don't Lug Your Luggage

Stop! Laptop Thief!
Portable PCs have never been so easy to steal. Here's how to get yours back

The Bogie Buster

You Heard the Album, Now Buy the Jeans
Inspired by J. Lo's success, stars are vying for space on store shelves

Music's New Mousetrap (Your Time/Piracy Watch)