COVER

The End Of Poverty (World)

In a world of plenty, 1 billion people are so poor, their lives are in danger. How to change that for good

WORLD

Escaping Arafat's Shadow

For his first interview with an English-language magazine since taking office in January, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met with Time's Jerusalem bureau chief, Matt Rees, and correspondent Jamil Hamad last Saturday in his West Bank office. After buzzing an aide for a cigarette (he does not carry his own pack, believing, he joked, that "this keeps down my consumption"), Abbas talked for an hour about his challenges.

NATION

Was The Killer Next Door?

Dennis Rader was a husband, father, church leader —and is now the man accused of terrorizing Wichita

BRIEFING

Still Short In Iraq (Notebook)

Even if the insurgency in Iraq abates, how well prepared is the U.S. military to get on with the task of nation building?