NATION

WORLD

The Forgotten War

Patrolling The No-Fly Zones Over Iraq Since 1991 Has Given U.S. Pilots Lots Of Practice For The Real Thing

WAR & TERRORISM

Al-Qaeda: Reeling Them In (Al-Qaeda / The Global Threat)

Al-Qaeda's elusive terrorists have to be captured one by one. The inside story of how a big fish got snared

SCIENCE

Against All The Odds

CHRISTOPHER REEVE, In A Visit With TIME, Tells How He Is Regaining Control Of His Body, One Finger At A Time

TECHNOLOGY

Maid To Order

A little robot called Roomba vacuums your house while you lounge by the pool. Is this the beginning of the end?

BRIEFING

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

BUSINESS

Exporting to Survive (Time Global Business / Tech Start-Ups)

With U.S. customers in a crunch, new telecom firms go abroad for business

The Global Life: Dublin Calling (Time Global Business / The Global Life)

Americans are flocking to Ireland for business--and discovering the pleasures of its green, gentle capital

Bet on Greed (Time Global Business)

Buying fallen tech and financial stocks, insiders may be calling a market bottom

LAW

Stop! And Say Cheese

Wilmington Police Are Snapping Pictures Of People In High-Crime Areas And Taking Names. Is This Legal?

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Television: Look Back In Angst (The Arts / Television)

This fall the networks bet that anxious viewers will take refuge in nostalgia. What does it say about post-9/11 America if the cold war now seems cozy?

Books: A Few Words to Die By (The Arts / Books)

In Lullaby, Chuck Palahniuk's Latest Novel, An Angry Man Discovers A Killer Rhyme--And Uses It

Firefly (The Arts / Short Takes)

Fox, Fridays, 8 p.m. E.T.

Push, Nevada (The Arts / Short Takes)

ABC, Thursdays, 9 p.m. E.T. (preview, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 9 p.m. E.T.)

YOUR TIME

Curing the Late-Payment Blues (Personal Time / Your Money)

Mortgage foreclosures are at record highs. The good news: lenders are willing to help bail you out

Prostate Cancer: Cut or Wait? (Personal Time / Your Health)

New evidence tips the balance toward surgical intervention. But you still may not live longer

SPECIAL SECTION

11 Anniversary: Hallowed Ground (Photo Essay / 9)

TIME sent a team of photographers--James Nachtwey, Nina Berman and Vincent Musi--to the ceremonies at ground zero, Shanksville, Pa., and the Pentagon to gather enduring images of the day: a day of rec

PEOPLE

LETTERS