COVER
Protecting Jungles: One Way to Combat Global Warming (Environment)
How the battle to save a remote rain forest in Indonesia can help the planet win the fight against global warming
WORLD
Sex, Television and Berlusconi's Path to Power
How the Italian Prime Minister and media mogul has used beautiful women on TV to create the very culture that now sustains him
Silvio Berlusconi and the Politics of Sex (Photos)
The Italian Prime Minister has used the power of sex to build a flourishing business and political career. Photographs by Nina Berman / Noor for TIME
In Central America, Coups Still Trump Change
Central America was meant to have left the coups and corruption of the past behind. But across the region the same families are in charge and change is little more than a slogan
POSTCARD FROM
Postcard: Iceland
Budding fashion designers capitalize on Iceland's ailing economy to set up shop. How the financial meltdown has helped creativity flourish
ARTS
Michael Haneke's Film Noir (Movies)
Michael Haneke uses film to explore humanity's id, winning audiences and awards
ESSAY
Indomitable Gaul
Long seen as an underdog, comic hero Asterix is actually proof of France's economic power
GLOBAL ADVISER
Think Big (Great Outdoors)
Get up close and personal with an endangered behemoth
Dead Cool (Next Time You're in ... Paris)
Paris' newest arts center began life as a state-run funeral home
Swiss Pleasure Path (Diversions)
The history hike that will have you yodeling with pleasure
The High Life (Check In)
The Park Hyatt Shanghai is so tall that by the time your shirts have been sent from your room to the ground-level laundry and back, they've traveled a distance of nearly a kilometer
LETTERS
Net Loss (Inbox)
The View from Main Street; Reagan and Diplomacy; Feeling Swiss