How Apple Does It (Cover Story / What's Next)
Conventional wisdom says its strategy is wrong, yet it keeps turning out great products. TIME looks inside the world's most innovative company

Messengers of Cool (Trendspotting)
How new digital networks help hipsters around the globe hunt for the next big thing

Three's Company (Television)
A TV show about one man's disparate housewives

Place Your Bets! (Predictions)
On terrorism, on politics, on your future. Why markets will have a say in almost everything

The Road Ahead (Forum)
We assembled some of the smartest people we know to identify the trends that are most likely to affect our future. What we got was a fascinating discussion about religion, technology and politics and why no one's golf scores seem to be getting any better.

Takin' It To The Streets (Art)
An ingenious art form is springing up in the unlikeliest city locales; galleries are noticing

Getting Inside Your Head (Science)
As "neuro" goes mainstream, Big Business hopes to decode the brain's secrets

Clint's Double Take (Movies)
Eastwood directs two films on the battle of Iwo Jima: one from the U.S. side, the other from the Japanese

Ready For Lift-Off (Sport)
How Tennessee's dynamic Candace Parker will change the face of women's sports

What's Next ... With The Amish (Humor)

Biochips for Everyone! (Science)

  5 New Things That Will Blow Your Mind

Global Visions (Design)

Get Set for Girl Power (Sport)

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Can New Orleans Do Better?
After his Katrina performance, mayor Ray Nagin needs to show he's the one to revive the city

Why They Can't Hit The Right Note (White House Memo)
With even Laura off-key on Miers, Bush plans to change the message--again


Nightmare in the Mountains
How delays in getting relief to the Himalayan quake zone have left millions on the edge of survival

Forget Saving the World--Save Our Jobs (Letter From Berlin)
By electing a new Chancellor, young Germans choose security over big ideas

Professor of Death
EXCLUSIVE: An Iraqi insurgent leader reveals how he trains and equips suicide bombers and sends them on their lethal missions


Target: Trans Fats
How foodmakers are scrambling to rid their tried-and-true recipes of an artery-clogging fat

Squandered Futures
The polished CEO at Refco allegedly cooks the books, then enjoys a bang-up IPO--but not for long


Meet The New Planets (Space)
We used to think of the solar system as nine lonely worlds traveling in neat rings around the sun. But the harder astronomers look, the more crowded our cosmic neighborhood seems to become

Not in My Water Supply (Health)
It hardens teeth and prevents cavities, but 60 years after it began, fluoridation is meeting new resistance


10 of TIME's Hundred Best Novels (Books)
Our critics chose the finest English-language fiction since the magazine began. Here are some of the surprises


Suckers For Safety (Health)

A Stitch In Time ... (Style)

Doctor's Orders

Trimming Tech Bills (Money)


A Contingency Plan
The fight over the Valerie Plame leak continues

Death In Damascus: Who Pulled The Trigger?
Why was a Syrian minister found dead in his office?

Clinton Connections
Why are conservatives angry at Commander in Chief?

Speed Read: Saddam's Trial (Speed Read)
A primer on the upcoming trial of Saddam Hussein

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10 Questions for Lynne Cheney (Interview)

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