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Edition: U.S.
Vol. 164 No. 17
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COVER
Is God in Our Genes? (Cover Story / Religion)
A PROVOCATIVE STUDY ASKS WHETHER RELIGION IS A PRODUCT OF EVOL UTION. INSIDE A QUEST FOR THE ROOTS OF FAITH

How Spiritual Are You? (Cover Story / Religion)
To find out, take this test, which is adapted from a personality inventory devised by Washington University psychiatrist Robert Cloninger, author of Feeling Good: The Science of Well-Being


NATION
Who Gets to Talk About Mary Cheney? (Campaign '04)

Translating Faith into Spanish (Campaign '04)

How The Wedge Issues Cut (Campaign '04)
A campaign about Iraq and jobs abruptly shifts to the fraught territory of God, gays and guns. But will the values debate help Republicans this year?


WORLD
Taking the Battle to the Enemy
U.S. and Iraqi forces launch high-risk probes of the insurgency in Fallujah and Ramadi. A TIME exclusive

Iraq's Shadow Ruler
When Ayatullah Sistani speaks, millions obey. Can the conscience of the nation make it safe for democracy?


SCIENCE
He Never Gave Up (Health)
What actor and activist Christopher Reeve taught scientists about the treatment of spinal-cord injury

Dinosaur Tales (Paleontology)
Did today's birds really evolve from dinosaurs? Two spectacular discoveries make the case even stronger


NOTEBOOK
Arnold vs. the Girly States

After Gitmo, Back to Terror

Milestones

Numbers

Verbatim

And Besides, We'll Buy a Subscription

51 Years ago in Time (Milestones)

Mutiny On The Convoy?

Why Didn't 99 Other Senators Close Up Shop Too?

An Overdose of Invective (In The Arena)

Why It's So Close


ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
Table of Contents (Table Of Contents)

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BUSINESS
Online Travel: The Race Is On!
Booking trips on the Web will only get easier, thanks to the ambitions of two business titans

Spitzer Strikes Again
New York's attorney general is attacking the insurance business--and a high-profile CEO


ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Greene Lite (Books)
Discovering all about a writer except who he was

All Too Superhuman (Movies)
Breaking rules, making megahits, the Pixar team now unleashes a family of repressed superheroes

A Gift of Tea and Sympathy (Movies)
With Vera Drake, Mike Leigh has made a film about abortion that is neither strident nor preachy

He's Got Good Taste (Movies)

He Cannot Tell a Lie (Books)
A historian who stretched the truth about his own life writes a candid biography of George Washington

The Office Punches Out (Television)
The instant-classic British-workplace sitcom--U.S. version coming soon--says goodbye in top form

Scenes from A Marriage, Part 2 (Theater)
Arthur Miller is still in the thrall of Marilyn Monroe

Hard People, Stark Beauty (Art)
Bloody and brutal, the Aztecs produced powerful art. The Guggenheim offers the biggest survey ever

When Puppets Get Political (Movies)


YOUR TIME
Stitch in Time (Health)

No Bones About It (Health)
It's almost Halloween, a good time to start thinking about your skeleton

Serving Up Support (Sport)

Is That a Verichip Under Your Skin? (Health)

Malaria Vaccine (Health)

How I Lost The Lakers (Sport)
In his new book, Phil Jackson dishes on Kobe, Shaq and how to manage a mess

Clubs for People Who Point and Clique (Tech)
The rich and fabulous now have their own online hot spots. Can we get in?

History Lesson: How a '60s Film About Algeria Resonates Tody (Tech)

Netting Drugs (Tech)


SPECIAL SECTION
Weaving Toward a Better Future (Time Bonus Section November 2004: Global Business / World Briefing)

Who's Getting It Right? (Time Bonus Section November 2004: Global Business / Marketing)
AMERICAN BRANDS IN THE MIDDLE KINGDOM

Carrying Its Weight (Time Bonus Section November 2004: Global Business / Economy)
The euro was supposed to energize the European marketplace. Has it?

Hotel Heaven (Time Bonus Section November 2004: Global Business / The Global Life)
Do you want a room with a personal sauna? Not a problem if you're a VIP

How Nike Figured Out China (Time Bonus Section November 2004: Global Business / Marketing)
The China market is finally for real. To the country's new consumers, Western products mean one thing: status. They can't get enough of those Air Jordans

It's a Lawsuit, a Mighty Lawsuit (Time Bonus Section November 2004: Global Business / World Briefing)

Saying No to Microsoft (Time Bonus Section November 2004: Global Business / World Briefing)
Some countries are replacing Microsoft with Linux. Cost and flexibility may be the issue

Air Raiders (Time Bonus Section November 2004: Global Business / Airlines)
Budget airlines are taking over Asia's skiesincreasing competition and making travel accessible to millions

People to Watch in International Business (Time Bonus Section November 2004: Global Business / World Beaters)

Games, Tunes and Video to Go (Time Bonus Section November 2004: Global Business / World Briefing)

Rainmaking 101 (Time Bonus Section November 2004: Global Business / World Briefing)


PEOPLE
10 Questions For The Dalai Lama (Interview)

Exiting the No-Sin Zone?

Give Us Your Jocks, Your Babies...

Comic Gets Cross, Fires

Feud of the Week


LETTERS
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ESSAY
The Fury of Women Scorned
Desperate Housewives jabs a stiletto heel into manly-man, post-9/11 culture


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