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

Cartoons of the Week
Who Will Inherit Joel Stein's Kid?
The Weekly Acoustic News
Asterix at 50: The Comic Hero Conquers the World
Photos: Silvio Berlusconi and the Politics of Sex
Pictures of the Week
Short List: TIME's Weekly Critics' Picks
Piecing Together Nabokov's Last Novel
Photos: Peru's Sacred Glacier Is Melting
New Moon Review: Team Jacob Ascending