COVER
The Age of Arthritis
Arthritis is crippling Asia, but new treatments could help save your joints
Rheumatoid arthritis (Health)
The Other Crippling Joint Disease
What You Can Do (Health)
You don't have to suffer. There are many ways to find relief
ASIA
Can the Class of '89 Fix Japan?
The nation's class of '89 is set to change the country with a jolt of creative idealism
To Have & Have Not
The city of Karachi in Pakistan has become one of the region's roughest towns
Cleaning House
President Roh wants to reform the South's notoriously brutal intelligence agency, but will he render it ineffective?
History of Harm
TIME Asia, Korea, Asia, spy agency, NIS, Korean Central Intelligence Agency
General Strike
Dashing hopes of democracy, Burma's junta turns deadlyand again locks up Aung San Suu Kyi
HEALTH
Heal Thyself?
China's physicians must make life-and-death decisions using the Party's ethical compassand death wins far too often
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Enter The Animatrix (Movies)
A collection of Matrix-related anim offers beauty, horror and lots of violence
Wong's World (Movies)
Truth or Dare shows Hong Kong kids are O.K.
The Art of Titillation (Books)
Cheap sex. Cheap drugs. Sordid foreigners. Books about Thailand rarely escape the tawdry clichs
BRIEFING
Pakistan: Law of the land (Notebook)
A drive to enforce Islamic law threatens to unravel Musharraf's coalition government
South Korea: Run DMZ (Notebook)
U.S. troops prepare to clear out of the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea
Living Too Large? (Notebook)
An ongoing crackdown takes its toll on China's high-riding tycoons
A Very Dirty Plot (Notebook)
A police raid on Islamic militants uncovers uranium and bomb-making instructions
Taking to the Treetops (Notebook)
Fleeing rampaging elephants, Indian villagers head for higher ground
Milestones (Notebook)
Vietnam's Mr. Big sentenced to death; America's Ms. Clean charged with insider trading
Verbatim (Notebook)
Quotes of the Week
TRAVEL
From Red to Green and Back
Thailand's eco hot spot conceals a bloody past
Thailand: Detour
Thailand's superlative Mae Klong river
Thailand: Hot Spot
A policeman-turned-hotelier's spread makes a cheerful stop among Umphang's splendors
Thailand: Web Crawling
Links to Trekking in Thailand