BUSINESS

In Search Of The Real Google

An inside look at how success has changed Larry and Sergey's dream machine. Can they still be the good guys while running a company worth $100 billion?

SCIENCE

SPORT

Once Upon A Winter's Night... (Sports / 2006 Olympics)

Italy's city of Fiats and chocolate, vermouth and the shroud plays host to the Olympics with a ceremony full of dance, Dante and other delights, even as controversies and harsh realities lurk

BRIEFING

NATION

WORLD

Fanning the Flames

As the rage over the Muhammad cartoons burns on, TIME explains why the controversy erupted months after the caricatures appeared--and what could have averted the crisis

EDUCATION

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

YOUR TIME

Play's the Thing (Technology)

Smart dolls, ticklish monkeys, and computers for tots at the 2006 American International Toy Fair

PEOPLE

LETTERS

ESSAY