COVER
Stem Cells: The Hope And The Hype
The debate is so politically loaded that it's tough to tell who's being straight about the real areas of progress and how breakthroughs can be achieved. TIME sorts it out
ASIA
Get Ahead, Learn Mandarin (Cover Story)
China's economic rise means the world has a new second language—and it isn't English
BUSINESS
China's Hotel Boom
China is tipped to become the world's top tourist destination, and foreign hotel chains are rushing to cash in
BRIEFING
Research on Ice (Notebook)
New details of disgraced Korean geneticist Dr. Hwang Woo-suk's experiments emerge: cloned woolly mammoths, anyone?