Q: What Scares Doctors? A: Being the Patient (Medicine)
What insiders know about our health-care system that the rest of us need to learn

What Makes a Good Patient? (Medicine)

  How To Fix The System

  Choosing a Doctor and a Hospital


Can The New Sheriff Tame The West Wing?
Josh Bolten started by shaking up the staff. Next comes a five-point White House "recovery plan"

New Twists in The Case
A prosecutor comes under scrutiny when one of the students indicted in the Duke rape case comes up with an alibi

A Reporter's Last Battle
Why the FBI wants to search the private papers of the late investigative journalist Jack Anderson


Stolen Away
As criminal gangs run amuck in Iraq, hundreds of girls have gone missing. Are they being sold for sex?

It's Bad to Be the King (Letter From Kathmandu)
As a violent revolt threatens to end the monarchy, Nepal eyes an anarchic future

Running Out of the Darkness
With the aid of American Christians, North Koreans are risking their lives to reach freedom. The inside tale of one escape


Wanted: New Roommaid (Living)
Willing to swap free rent for chores? A new living arrangement falls back on old-school gender roles

Taming Wild Girls
Never mind the gentler gender. Girls, too, can be brawlers. But parents, teachers and older girls are starting to take control


Verbatim

A Financial Hit on Iran?
U.S. officials have been mapping a plan to hit the defiant regime

Punchlines

Milestones

Taxes Too High? Rent a Cow
In Florida, investors are saving on property taxes by claiming plots as farmland

Bosnia's Pyramid Scheme

Numbers

A Media Mole Unmasked
CIA Director Porter Goss fingered his first alleged media mole

Lipstick At $75 a Barrel? (Pop Quiz)

20 Years Ago in TIME


"I Love Him No Matter What" (Q&a)
Zacarias Moussaouis' mother, Aicha el-Wafi tells TIME about her son and her anguish

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Getting Wise to Lies
Alarmed about the prevalence of resumé padding, employers are turning fib detection into an industry


Run For Your Lives! The Blockbusters Are Coming! (Summer Movie Preview)
If the new crop of big-budget blockbusters looks a lot like the old crop, it's because most of them are sequels. Can Hollywood reinvent its big-money franchises?

Listening To The Hissing (Summer Movie Preview)
Snakes on a Plane--a title that definitely bites

The Height Of Luxury (Fashion)
How Tomas Maier has revitalized leather-goods house Bottega Veneta by bucking the logo trend

7 Greatest Plays on Film (Worth Your Time)
Can't make it to the theater? Screen these classic DVDs in your home


Click Here To Fly There (Travel)
New ways to save by planning your trip online

A Better Option? (Health)
Good news on breast-cancer prevention


People

10 Questions For Romano Prodi (Interview)


Who Should Be Among This Year's Picks for the Time 100?

Immigration Divides the Nation