In this issue
Edition: U.S.
Edition: U.S.
Vol. 120 No. 26
Read the Cover StoryNATION
Lame Ducks Lay an Egg
Buck Passing on Social Security
Making Headway on Defense
Guilty in Illinois
A Call for "Hardheaded Detente"
Booked
Hitting a Hitman
Easy Money
Found and Lost
WORLD
Winks and Nods in Geneva
(DIPLOMACY) Sad Anniversary (POLAND)
Two-Step (MIDDLE EAST)
A Murky but intriguing Trail (TERRORISM)
SCIENCE
Rockies Menace
(Environment)
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Mighty Mice
(Medicine)
Young Victims (Medicine)
SOCIETY
TV as the New Fireplace
(Living)
PRESS
Pilot Error?
Restoring Reputations (News watch/Thomas Griffith)
RELIGION
The New Missionary
(COVER STORY) A Sheep Is a Sheep
SPORT
Not Your Average Bear
BUSINESS
The Elusive Recovery
(Economy & Business)
Back from the Brink (Economy & Business)
Booms, Busts and Birth of a Rust Bowl (Economy & Business)
EDUCATION
Low-Tech Teaching Blues
LAW
The Return of Unequal Justice?
Copywrongs
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
A Critique and a Caricature
(Books)
Make 'Em Laugh! Make 'Em Pay! (Cinema)
TO OUR READERS
Read the story
(A Letter From The Publisher)
LETTERS
Read the story
ESSAY
We'll Always Have Casablanca

Q&A with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Top 10 Outrageous PETA Stunts
2-Minute Bio: Departing CNN Anchor Lou Dobbs
A Muslim Candidate's Unconventional Strategy
U.S. Crime Writer Tackles a Real Hong Kong Cold Case
Inside the Apartment of Nidal Malik Hasan
Volunteer Vets: Returning Troops Still Want to Serve
Joe Cada, Poker's New Champion
Fashion Week in Pakistan
Top 10 Sesame Street Moments