May 1, 2006 | Vol. 167 No. 18

Q: What Scares Doctors? A: Being the Patient (Medicine)

What insiders know about our health-care system that the rest of us need to learn

Medicine: What Makes a Good Patient? (Medicine)

Can The New Sheriff Tame The West Wing?

Josh Bolten started by shaking up the staff. Next comes a five-point White House recovery plan

New Twists in The Case

A prosecutor comes under scrutiny when one of the students indicted in the Duke rape case comes up with an alibi

A Reporter's Last Battle

Why the FBI wants to search the private papers of the late investigative journalist Jack Anderson

Stolen Away

As criminal gangs run amuck in Iraq, hundreds of girls have gone missing. Are they being sold for sex?

Letter From Kathmandu: It's Bad to Be the King (Letter From Kathmandu)

As a violent revolt threatens to end the monarchy, Nepal eyes an anarchic future

Running Out of the Darkness

With the aid of American Christians, North Koreans are risking their lives to reach freedom. The inside tale of one escape

Wanted: New Roommaid (Living)

Willing to swap free rent for chores? A new living arrangement falls back on old-school gender roles

Taming Wild Girls

Never mind the gentler gender. Girls, too, can be brawlers. But parents, teachers and older girls are starting to take control

Verbatim: May 1, 2006 (Notebook)

A Financial Hit on Iran? (Notebook)

U.S. officials have been mapping a plan to hit the defiant regime

Punchlines: May 1, 2006 (Punchlines)

Milestones May 1, 2006 (Notebook)

Taxes Too High? Rent a Cow (Notebook)

In Florida, investors are saving on property taxes by claiming plots as farmland

Bosnia's Pyramid Scheme (Notebook)

Numbers: May 1, 2006 (Numbers)

A Media Mole Unmasked (Notebook)

CIA Director Porter Goss fingered his first alleged media mole

Lipstick At $75 a Barrel? (Notebook / Pop Quiz)

20 Years Ago in TIME (Notebook)

I Love Him No Matter What (Q&a)

Zacarias Moussaouis' mother, Aicha el-Wafi tells TIME about her son and her anguish