COVER

Tech Buyer's Guide (Best Inventions)

All the details on the newest products to help you decide how to spend your money wisely

AUSTRALIAN ELECTION

Talk of the Tube (Australian Campaign Diary)

From personal grooming to policy promotion and activist networks, the Internet has emerged — especially among young voters — as a political force

BRIEFING

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Great and Small

A book about dead creatures under glass is a window on three lives — and the life around us

ASIA

Pakistan's State of Emergency

Pervez Musharraf infuriates his people--and embarrasses Washington--by cracking down on democracy. Will that help him fight the war on terrorism? Probably not

UNITED STATES

What Hillary Stands For

Her opponents say she tries to have it both ways. Pundits charge that she's slippery. Joe Klein sits down with the New York Senator to hear her side

LETTERS