COVER
How Countries Level the Playing Field (Best Countries For Business)
Figuring out a nation's economic growth isn't easy, but a global index can help clear the path
The Highs and Lows of African Oil (Best Countries For Business)
Angola and Mauritius are both growing fast, but not everyone is sharing the wealth as African oil fuels an uneven boom
Latin America's Peculiar New Strength (Best Countries For Business)
Argentina, Brazil and Chile are taking distinctly different routes to prosperity
Can China Lure Big Pharma? (Best Countries For Business)
Beijing is bent on attracting world-class pharmaceutical R&D labs. The bait: cheap clinical trials
Why Denmark Loves Globalization (Best countries For Business)
High taxes, a welfare state, strong unions: how an unlikely formula delivers for the Danes
ENVIRONMENT
Water Worries
A long drought and fears of worse to come have made climate change, for the first time, an election issue in Australia
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
A Swashbuckling Tale of 10th-century Adventure
A thousand-year-old Indo-Persian saga is revitalized by its first English translation
ESSAY
Whatever Happened to Self-Preservation?
We know how to prevent many forms of cancer, but apathy gets the better of us
ASIA
Postcard: Xiantang
A Chinese village takes a stand against corruption. But will Beijing listen?
Bhutto Unshackled
She has plunged her country — and Washington — into uncertainty by breaking a power-sharing agreement with President Musharraf. Can she overcome skepticism about her motives and lead the movement to topple him?
WORLD
Finding Iran's Pressure Points (Middle East)
The U.S. still can't get Iran to come clean on its nuclear program. Will tougher sanctions work?
GLOBAL ADVISER
Skiing with Air Support (Great Outdoors)
Bored with the usual pistes? Then it's time to call in the chopper
One Night in Seoul (TIME Traveler)
Let the locals suggest some fun ways to spend it
Bearing Fruit (Amuse Bouche)
Roppongi's update on the traditional New York chophouse gives Tokyoites a bite of the Big Apple
Mexican Revolution (Diversions)
Sleepy Puebla is becoming a fashionable getaway
BRIEFING
A False Dawn in Burma (World Spotlight)
The ruling military junta may seem to be loosening its iron grip, but that doesn't mean it's ready to let go of power