How the Moussaoui Case Crumbled
TIME in depth: A trial once described as a slam dunk is caught in a post—9/11 legal wrangle

NOC, NOC. Who's There? A Special Kind of Agent
The unmasking of Valerie Plame sheds light on the shadowy world of NOCs, spies with nonofficial cover

Ready, Set, Relax!
Fed up with the fast track, people are banding together to find ways to slow things down

Profiles In Convenience (In The Arena)


Danger Around Every Corner
Enemy attacks in Iraq are growing more sophisticated and better organized. Here's why that is happening and what U.S. troops are doing to fight the persistent threat


10 Questions For Eliot Spitzer (Interview)


The Twilight Zone Of Consciousness (Science/Medicine)
Her family bitterly split, Terri Schiavo will now die. Do doctors know what's going on behind those eyes?

A Tough Ethical Call
Chinese doctors impregnate a woman using a technique U.S. scientists deemed too hot to handle

Robo-Monkey's Reward
When animals can control a mechanical arm just by thinking, could human paraplegics be far behind?


So Who's talking to Iran?
Opening a back door to Iran

Gaza: Echoes of Iraq
Targeting Americans in Gaza

30 Years Ago In Time (Notebook/Milestones)

An Early Front Runner

Boo, Humbug! (Essay)
Call me a Scrooge, but why can't adults leave Halloween to the kids?

Milestones (Notebook/Milestones)

And Wasn't That Thomas E. Dewey At Shortstop?

Numbers

Performance Of The Week

Verbatim

When The Shark Bites

Letters (Letters)

Q & A With Mandy Moore (People)

People (People/First Look)

Stealing Beauty (Arts/Asia's Looted Treasures)
Ruthless art thieves are rapidly stripping Asia's cultural sites of precious artifacts and selling them to smugglers and dealers who hawk them in the West. A TIME Special Report.

Inside a Tomb Raid (Arts/Asia's Looted Treasures)

Dire State (Books)
Joan Didion revisits her native California. Ouch!

Different Strokes? (Music)
Nope. The new CD from rock's reigning bohos sticks to the stuff they do best. But that's a good thing

Loving While Living a Lie (Arts/Movies)
A stern old teacher faces a life's worth of deceptions in Robert Benton's haunting film The Human Stain

The Art of Warp (Architecture)
Frank Gehry's hometown masterpiece had a difficult birth. But it should have a brilliant life

The XXX Files (Television)
Are we ready for a porn-biz Romeo and Juliet?


Cancer And The Pap Smear (Your Time/Health)

Flu Shots for Tots (Your Time/Health)
Influenza season is coming, and the CDC says everybody should get vaccinated

Implants: Mixed O.K. (Your Time/Health)

The Blubber Years (Your Time/Health)

Parents: Brace Yourselves (Your Time/Lifestyle)

The Jones Boy In a New Box (Your Time/Lifestyle)

The Latest In Lip Service (Your Time/Lifestyle)

There's Life in There (Your Time/Lifestyle)
This virtual world is not just a game

Driving Car Loans Too Far (Your Time/Money)

Interns, Get Moving (Your Time/Money)
Want to land the perfect gig for next summer? Start your search now

When Debt Advice Turns Predatory (Your Time/Money)


The Beeb Cashes In (Global Business/Media)
The BBC is invading American TV and bringing big bucks to Britain. So why is it under so much fire?

A Broadband Bank
Anyone who missed the first season of the BBC's hit comedy 'The Office' may not be out of luck

Trade Maker (Global Business/Commerce)
Cardboard production grows at a faster rate than the world's GDP

World Beaters
A mergers expert; a Sony TV exec; GM's new design chief; a sneaker king

Not Golden (Global Business/Mining)
In Peru, locals are resisting foreign-owned mining companies, even at the price of continuing poverty

Smoke Signals
Some European countries are adopting American-style bans on smoking in bars

They're Back! (Global Business/Investing)
In the '90s, IPOs dazzled, fizzled and died. Now some good firms with real prospects are lining up

World Briefing
Euro paybacks; Goldman's golf deal; cell-phone shuffle; Toyota plays the NBA