10 QUESTIONS: Mark Spitz on Michael Phelps and post-Olympics life 8
LETTERS 9
NOTEBOOK
The Iraq insurgency gets organized; why Che is hot; science film a sleeper hit 19
MILESTONES: Rick James dies; Smarty Jones retires 25
IN THE ARENA: Joe Klein on red and blue America 27
WORLD
CASING THE U.S. An exclusive look at what investigators have discovered about al-Qaeda's plans of attack 28
THE TARGETS: Raw data from the terrorists' own files 32
THE HUNT: Tracking jihadist suspects on U.S. soil 34
NATION
THE POLITICS OF ALERTS A TIME poll shows Bush's advantage on fighting terrorism is...