COVER STORY
SLAVES OF GREED
Ten's of thousands of children from poor Asian families are being sold into lives of prostitution and hard labor

LETTERS...
NOTEBOOK...
PACIFIC BEAT: Casting off
MILESTONES...

UNITED STATES
FIRST PERSON: Birthday Dad
Patty Davis on Ronald Reagan's 91st

SCANDAL: The Party's Over After bankruptcy, a suicide and a blizzard of shredded documents, everybody's scrambling to avoid being tainted by the Enron crash

FALLOUT: A Shocking Suicide
Enron executive- turned-critic Clifford Baxter had a privileged life-until he killed himself

BUSINESS: Who's Next?
In the wake of Enron's collapse, big companies are coming to realize that the days of creative accounting are over

AMERICAN TALIBAN: Let the Trials Begin
The nation debates whether John Lindh is a traitor or a misguided kid

THE WAR
IRAN: Tehran Butts In
The old troublemaker on Afghanistan's western border stirs new concerns

MIDDLE EAST
ARAFAT: Bunker Days
Surrounded by Israeli tanks, forgotten by friends, can the Palestinian leader survive?

ASIA
AFGHANISTAN: Still a War Zone
Fierce clashes show how dangerous peace can be

TERROR: Time Bombs
Authorities in Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines uncover a network of violently anti-Western Islamists with links to al-Qaeda

SCIENCE
ANTHRAX: The Hunt Narrows
Could hot tubs, high jinks and lax security at a U.S. lab lead the FBI to the killer?

SPORT
SALT LAKE CITY: High Hopes
Asia's coolest athletes prepare for the winter Games

SECURITY: Making Salt Lake City a terror-free zone

THE ARTS
EXHIBITIONS: Lost Cause
The Spanish Civil War
CINEMA: Owen Wilson has a nose for success
BOOKS: Everest's sherpas get their due

PEOPLE
ESSAY: What New York's Canal Street can teach the world