COVER

While You Were Sleeping

Dreams were long dismissed as neurological garbage, but now scientists are beginning to probe the secrets of our nightly visions

SOUTH PACIFIC

Waves of Devastation (Briefing)

The tsunami is but the latest misery to hit a long-suffering people

ASIA

Sri Lanka: Endless War

Sri Lanka has been in the grip of a bloody civil conflict for more than two decades. Can the cycle of violence ever be broken?