NATION
Looking for the Loopholes
Twenty-eight years after the last campaign-finance reforms, new rules look set to take effect. Will they be tough enough to clean up the game?
WORLD
The Shoe Bomber's World
WHAT DOES THE SAGA OF RICHARD REID TELL US ABOUT AL-QAEDA? TIME RETRACES HIS TRAIL TO FIND OUT
THE EXPLOSIVES: Who Built Reid's Shoes?
THE EXPLOSIVES
Murder in the Airport
After one of his top officials is killed, Afghanistan's leader struggles to keep his fragile nation united
SCIENCE
Here, Kitty, Kitty!
If the first cloned house pet can melt your heart, how will you react to the first cloned child?
HEALTH & MEDICINE
On Their Own Two Feet (Medicine)
A TIME columnist bears witness to an operation to help triplets with cerebral palsy walk like other boys
SPORT
A Sport on Thin Ice (Winter Olympics)
A bad call--and a quick recall--expose the darker side of Olympic skating
The Celebrated Pair: After A False Start, Chemistry (Winter Olympics / The Celebrated Pair)
Ah, Certainty! (Winter Olympics)
The Games satisfy us with rules and results not found in Enron or Afghanistan
You Be The Judge (Winter Olympics)
HOW TO SIZE UP THE MOVES THAT MAKE THE DIFFERENCE
Portraits in Gold (Winter Olympics)
For these men and women, all the training, sacrifice and exhaustion paid off in the ultimate trophy
The Rules Need To Be Changed (Winter Olympics)
TECHNOLOGY
The Pirates Of Prime Time
Anyone want to trade some episodes of The Simpsons online? TV Land is getting Napsterized
Movies Online: Beyond Hollywood's Reach (Movies Online)
BRIEFING
78 Years Ago in TIME (Notebook)
Notebook: Feb. 25, 2002 (Notebook)
Ousting Saddam: Can It Be Done? (Notebook)
A King-Size Anniversary (Notebook)
Milestones Feb. 25, 2002 (Notebook / Milestones)
Spotlight on Islamic Art (Notebook)
The Man the CIA Won't Question (Notebook)
Campaign 2002: Another Dole, Another Race (Notebook / Campaign 2002)
Enron: The Scandal That Keeps on Giving (Notebook)
Family Planning (Notebook)
For Bush, It's Not Easy Being Green (Notebook)
Teacher, Can You Spare a Dime? (Notebook)
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
Inside the Hurricane (Letter from Gaza)
TIME visits the worst place of all to be an Israeli soldier--or a Palestinian
Faster, Higher, Sleazier (Humor)
If cheating were legal, judging would be a simple question: How low can you go?
BUSINESS
Equal-Opportunity Crisis
The G.O.P. hoped Global Crossing would be the Democrats' Enron. Now it's everybody's mess
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Hooray, Ron; Sorry, Baz (Behind The Oscars)
Movies: Screen Teens (The Arts / Movies)
LED BY BRITNEY SPEARS, A GANG OF POP PRINCESSES GOES ALL OUT TO STORM THE 'PLEXES
Television: Color Crosses Over (The Arts / Television)
After years of video apartheid, African American-oriented sitcoms are starting to reach white viewers
Photography: Tales of the Naked City (The Arts / Photography)
Louis Faurer's intricate portraits of New York captured its vulnerability and its invincibility
YOUR TIME
Camp Stay-at-Home (Personal Time / Your Family)
The recession and Sept. 11 jitters have some parents choosing not to send kids away. Will the backyard do?
Hitting All the Wrong Notes (Personal Time / Your Technology)
Napster and other fee-based music services are trying to lure us from free song swapping. They'd better try harder
In Praise of Folic Acid (Personal Time / Your Health)
Could the B vitamin that helps prevent birth defects also protect against Alzheimer's? The news is promising
In Brief: Feb. 25, 2002 (Personal Time / Your Family)
Your Health: Feb. 25, 2002 (Personal Time / Your Health)
SPECIAL SECTION
Global Briefing: Feb. 25, 2002 (Global Business / Global Briefing)
Protectionism: Steeling Jobs (Global Business / Protectionism)
America's ailing mills want another bailout--with the cost falling on companies that use steel
Protectionism: Sweet Subsidy (Global Business / Protectionism)
U.S. sugar tariffs cost consumers and workers
Protectionism: Asia's New Steel Tiger (Global Business / Protectionism)
Does South Korea's POSCO compete fairly?
Trademarks: Catfish by Any Other Name (Global Business / Trademarks)
Chauvinism turns to protectionism, as regions claim rights to the names of common foods
High Tech: Foreign Invaders (Global Business / High Tech)
A quiet New York City venture fund is taking over Japanese businesses that are beloved--and broke
People to Watch in International Business (Global Business / World Beaters)
Managing VIP Money (Global Business)
Today's top financial boutiques offer private-equity funds and other goodies
The Global Life: Classy Tequila (Global Business / The Global Life)
Fine vintages of the agave-based liquor win fans around the world