WORLD

How Bush Got Religion

The once disinterested President is now pushing peace in the Middle East. What changed his mind?

SCIENCE

Archaeology: Nefertiti Found? (Archaeology)

New evidence suggests that a battered and long-forgotten mummy may be Egypt's mysterious lost queen

PRESS

Mutiny at The Times

Inside the uprising at the nation's leading paper, where the tough leadership style of the top editors helped win prizes but also cost them their jobs

TECHNOLOGY

Spam's Big Bang!

The volume of junk e-mail has exploded this year. Can the Internet be saved?

BRIEFING

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

The Humanity of Hillary (In the Arena)

As her book proves, Clinton is at her best when she is least guarded about herself

Of Dogs And Men (Essay)

Chester was my window on the mysterious bond between canines and humans

BUSINESS

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Summer Of Vroooom (Show Business)

Gentlemen, start your engines. Movies are taking your backside trackside with auto action that just gets faster and more furious

What Do Men Want? (Television)

The identity-swapping TNN is now trying to lure male viewers by appealing to their inner lad

Tattling On Tinseltown (Books)

Two fictional views of Hollywood skewer the habits of movie bigs--and of those who want to bed them

They Called It Puppy Love (Books)

In The Dogs of Babel, a grieving linguistics professor tries to teach his dead wife's dog to talk

Goose Pimples via Geese (Movies)

A don't-try-this-at-home documentary on bird migration is aesthetically, soaringly riveting

Hair-Losing Head Bangers (Music)

Metallica returns from a five-year hiatus. The guys are older, though not quite as wise as they think

Lightened Up (Music)

Jewel's pop attitude is new. The sounds are not

YOUR TIME

The Uncola Wars

The lemon-lime soft-drink category is one of the busiest in the business, with companies launching several new and tweaked tastes in the past year or so. How do the sodas stack up?

PEOPLE

LETTERS