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WORLD

Postcard from The Galápagos (Postcard)

On Charles Darwin's former stomping ground, it's war between commerce and conservation. Survival of the fittest on Isabela Island

LETTERS

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Summer Entertainment Preview 2010 (Summer Preview)

TIME's critics give you a guided tour of the coming season's new music, movies, books and television, from Futurama to Lollapalooza, Pixar to Xtina

SOCIETY

SPECIAL SECTION

Africa's Last Best Opportunity (Global Business / Oil)

Oil finds in Ghana and Uganda give governments a platform to undo decades of corruption and reverse the resource curse

Pouring It On (Global Business / Small Business)

Brita sold the U.S. rights to its best product to Clorox. So it started Mavea to take on a familiar foe

Field of Schemes? (Global Business / Sports)

Lalit Modi created a hugely successful cricket league, but corruption charges may undo him

Business Books (Global Business)

Layoff lit: in publishing, sudden unemployment begets a fashionable genre. How two victims handled their career crashes

PEOPLE

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

Philanthropy Roundtable (TIME 100 Roundtable)

From food pantries in New York City to cell-phone networks in Africa, panelists J.J. Abrams, Matt Berg, David Chang, Liya Kebede and Sanjit "Bunker" Roy prove you can give back wherever you work and in whatever you do

BRIEFING

The Moment

5 | 18 | 10: Bangkok

Thailand

TIME photographer James Nachtwey shoots the violent end to the standoff in downtown Bangkok

The Skimmer

Book Review: Plentitude: The New Economics of True Wealth by Juliet B. Schor