COVER
Asia Reaches Olympian Heights (Cover Story)
From swimming to shooting, field hockey to fighting, Asia's superstar athletes are defying gravity in Athens
Bouncing Back (Cover Story)
Shedding their fears of failure and shame, Japan's athletes are rediscovering the joy of victory
Turning the World Upside Down (Cover Story)
If you think China's athletes have been brilliant in Athens, wait until Beijing 2008
ASIA
The Return of Abu Sayyaf
A Philippine group that was once known for brutal kidnapping has graduated to genuine terror
Mindanao's Biggest Boss
Al-Haj Murad Ebrahim of the M.I.L.F.
Turning Up the Heat
A growing U.S. focus on North Korea's human-rights record will complicate the six-nation talks
An Agenda for Pakistan (Viewpoint)
The country needs to move from managing crises to nurturing democracy
King's Gambit
How chess maestro Bobby Fischer turned fugitive and ended up in a Japanese detention cell
The Unlikely Alliance (Essay)
On the centenary of Deng's birth, memories of his bond with a U.S. President
GLOBAL ADVISER
Time Traveler (TIME Global Adviser)
Aloft in the Himalayas
Check In: Andalusian Hideaway (TIME Global Adviser)
Set in the hills above Seville, Trasierra is an all-season retreat with home comforts
Tech Watch (TIME Global Adviser)
The Myth of Megapixels
Your Health: Liposuction's Limits (TIME Global Adviser)
Surgery makes you slimmer, but it may not make you any healthier. Here's why
Amuse-Bouche (TIME Global Adviser)
London's Nyonya is the latest example of fusion Power
BRIEFING
Capital Punishment (Notebook)
Maoist rebels blockade Kathmandu in the latest tactic of their long-running insurrection
Muzzling the Rumor Mill (Notebook)
Thai regulators target market analysts, who they blame for the stock market's tumble
Milestones (Notebook)
LIFE Photographer Carl Mydans
Verbatim (Notebook)
Quotes of the week
Letters (Notebook)
In Search of Paradise
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Hong Kong's Golden Boy
Before he died, Martin Booth wrote a moving memoir of his colorful childhood in the 1950s British colony