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TALK TO US ONLINE

Each week TIME writers and editors chat about the news on AOL and answer your questions. This week talk about the threat of nuclear terrorism and why the government keeps giving us alerts. Go to AOL, Keyword: Live.

JEFFREY KLUGER is a stellar science writer, but since 9/11, he's been something of a generalist, writing about the American public's psychological state and the uneasy alliances the U.S. has had to forge abroad. This week he's back on familiar ground with a story about the dangers of nuclear terrorism. Talk with him on Monday at 8 p.m. E.T.

ADAM COHEN has been covering the murky Osama bin Laden money trail and the way al-Qaeda funds itself. He's become an expert on the shadowy Islamic banking system called hawala, in which nothing is written down. Talk to him on Wednesday at 8 p.m. E.T.

AMANDA BOWER has been reporting on the investigation into the hijackings and the anthrax attacks. She recently retraced the letter route of one of the Trenton postal workers infected with cutaneous anthrax. Talk to her on Tuesday at 8 p.m. E.T.

DANIEL EISENBERG usually writes about business but lately has tackled such subjects as airport security and the so-called moderate Taliban. This week he examines the government's most recent--and controversial--terror alert. Chat with him Thursday at 8 p.m. E.T.

PHOTO ESSAY

In Taliban Territory

If you're a photographer who wants to shoot in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and avoid getting your camera smashed and film confiscated or worse, you have to take precautions. Which is why TIME photographer Majid uses a pseudonym to help him maneuver behind Taliban lines. Even so, Majid was beaten up by a Taliban patrol yet managed to smuggle his film across the border by courier. See his striking photo essay at time.com/talibanlines

WEB LORE CALLING ALL WAR-NEWS JUNKIES

If you want the official war news, that's easy--go to the Pentagon's comprehensive site, www.defendamerica.mil where you can find just about every word Donald Rumsfeld has uttered since 9/11. And if that's not enough, try afghanistan.newstrove.com which has comprehensive listings of almost every story that even mentions the word Afghanistan.

DIARY WORDS FROM A RELIEF WORKER

As a relief worker in Pakistan, your days are filled with everything from caring for the hungry to braving anti-American slurs. Sigurd Hanson, director of the International Rescue Committee's refugee-aid operations in Pakistan and Afghanistan, is keeping a diary of his daily life. Read it at time.com/hanson--and if you want to help out, go to the IRC's website at www.intrescom.org

PHOTO ESSAY Sailors' Day Off

Picnics, swimming, basketball, tricycle races--sounds like summer camp. Actually, these are some of the activities of the sailors and soldiers on the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt, located in the Arabian Sea, who were given their first day off in 43 days. See our photo essay of what the sailors fondly call a "steel-beach picnic" at time.com/roosevelt