COVER

How Apple Does It (Cover Story / What's Next)

Conventional wisdom says its strategy is wrong, yet it keeps turning out great products. TIME looks inside the world's most innovative company

Place Your Bets! (Predictions)

On terrorism, on politics, on your future. Why markets will have a say in almost everything

Forum: The Road Ahead (Forum)

We assembled some of the smartest people we know to identify the trends that are most likely to affect our future. What we got was a fascinating discussion about religion, technology and politics and why no one's golf scores seem to be getting any better.

Takin' It To The Streets (Art)

An ingenious art form is springing up in the unlikeliest city locales; galleries are noticing

Movies: Clint's Double Take (Movies)

Eastwood directs two films on the battle of Iwo Jima: one from the U.S. side, the other from the Japanese

NATION

WORLD

Professor of Death

EXCLUSIVE: An Iraqi insurgent leader reveals how he trains and equips suicide bombers and sends them on their lethal missions

BUSINESS

Target: Trans Fats

How foodmakers are scrambling to rid their tried-and-true recipes of an artery-clogging fat

Squandered Futures

The polished CEO at Refco allegedly cooks the books, then enjoys a bang-up IPO--but not for long

SCIENCE

Meet The New Planets (Space)

We used to think of the solar system as nine lonely worlds traveling in neat rings around the sun. But the harder astronomers look, the more crowded our cosmic neighborhood seems to become

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