COVER

Medicating Young Minds (Cover Story)

Parents are relying on potent drugs for their troubled kids. Are short-term cures doing long-term harm?

On Campus (Cover Story)

University Blues: A Crisis

ASIA

Losing Face

The South's President pledged to clean up politics, but his own administration is being rocked by corruption scandals

Unhappy Returns

Transformed by privatization, the nation's health system is losing the battle against basic illnessesand the poor are paying the price

A Paradise Divided

Is Asia's longest-serving elected leader out of touch with his small and fast- changing nation?

GLOBAL ADVISER

Around the World in 80 Years (TIME Global Adviser | Diversions)

Planning several decades of vacation time? 1,000 Places to See Before You Die, should keep you occupied

Lapping at the Lake (TIME Global Adviser | Time Traveler)

Sanlitun's so over. Lakeside Houhai is now Beijing's trendy quarter

Park Life (TIME Global Adviser | Next Time You're In... Milan)

Milan's glitzy new Park Hyatt

Here's The Beef (TIME Global Adviser | The Cost-Of-Living-It-Up Index)

What's the cost of a fine steak?

Going the Distance (TIME Global Adviser)

Airbus' new A340-500 enters service as the world's longest-range passenger jet

BUSINESS

The House of Cards

A program to stimulate consumer spending worked too well. Now South Koreans are learning hard truths about credit-card debt

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

The Heat Detector

Former street punk Masakazu Takei is reinventing Japanese publishing by following his intuition

SPORTS

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

The Man Who Made India

Diplomat Shashi Tharoor reviews the mixed legacy of Nehru, India's other founding father

BRIEFING

Double Cross? (Notebook | China)

An academic accused of spying by China pleads guilty to charges in the U.S.

Playing His Part (Notebook | Philippines)

Another film actor aims for the Philippines' presidential seat

Verbatim (Notebook)

Quotes of the Week

Letters (Notebook)

Asia's Mental-Health Crisis