COVER
Homeland Insecurity
Congress evacuates as new anthrax cases stress the system and our nerves
SPECIAL SECTION
Down, Dirty and Aching for a Fight (War on Terror)
The war gets up close and personal
Letter from Kandahar: Kite Flying and Bomb Ducking (War on Terror)
Under siege, the Taliban stronghold is part ghost town, part business as usual
Damned Anyway (War on Terror)
Even outside the control of the Taliban, the plight of Afghan women seems hopeless
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Lost Romantic
Hong Kong director Yonfan creates lavish cinematic worlds of glamour and romance
ASIA
Terror Made in the U.S.A.
Would-be Vietnamese and Cambodian "freedom fighters" are operating from the most unlikely of bases: the U.S.
Just What Dr. M Ordered
Once-reviled Malaysian PM basks in the West's approval
BRIEFING
Starting Time
U.S. health czar Tommy Thompson, Eulogy;CHANG HSUEH-LIANG, SIX YEARS AGO IN TIME and more.
TRAVEL
Tracking the Past Along the Three Gorges
Chen Jinchang lives with two women, three coffins and the certainty that one day the Yangtze River will flood his simple mud-walled house