COVER

Still Searching (Cover / Business)

Google has enjoyed eight years of breakneck growth and a skyrocketing share price — all the while promising to do no evil. But does the company have a master plan? A look inside its relentless quest to innovate

Meet the Google guys (Cover / Business)

TIME's Adi Ignatius interviews the Google triumvirate of Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt and Larry Page

EUROPE

Drawing a Fine Line (Europe / Cartoon Row)

Free speech is a fine principle. It's the application that's tricky

A Man and his Times (European Union)

Why José Manuel Barroso thinks he's winning the fight to reform the European Union

OLYMPICS

Bravissimo Torino! (Torino 2006)

Incandescent ceremony; internal controversy. The Winter Games get under way

Waiving the Flag (Torino 2006)

A growing number of athletes are adding — even switching — passports to pursue Olympic dreams

BRIEFING

A Healthy State of Confusion (Notebook / Food)

There's so much conflicting nutritional information around these days: can we trust what we eat?

GLOBAL ADVISER

Surfers' Surfeit (Amuse-Bouche)

An array of culinary treats in the Hawaiian resort of Kailua-Kona

Sound And Vision (Tech Watch)

With a set of shades like these, you won't be in the dark as you face the music

Suite Dream (Check In)

After a $2.5 million makeover, the secret's out about this hotel gem

Thread Of Hope (Your Health)

Indian weavers say they have a wearable cure for skin ailments

Air Superiority (Diversions)

A balloon flight is far and above the best way to debate the merits of Asia's greatest sights