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ASIA
SPECIAL REPORT:
The Skies Ahead
In the soaring lines of glittering new airports in Hong Kong and
Kuala Lumpur, you can trace the changes that will transform the
experience of flying in the next century
Moving Night: Hong Kong's other handover
Future Flights: The next generation of aircraft
Upgrades: Gadgets that will ease those long hauls
Frequent Flying: How to speed through Asia's airports
TAIWAN:
On the Sidelines
As Beijing puts pressure on the U.S. to support its cross-strait
policy, Taipei's leaders have every reason to be worried
Lee Teng-hui Interview: "The reality is a divided China"
VIETNAM:
Mad About Football
Despite a rash of match-fixing, the national mania continues
INDIA:
Rural Depression
Indebted farmers are taking their own lives in large numbers
ASIAN ECONOMIES:
The Bad News Gets Worse
A TIME panel of economists sees very few silver linings
Viewpoint: It's restructuring time for Hong Kong
PAKISTAN:
Chronicler of Courtesans
Artist Iqbal Hussain's prime subject is Lahore's seamy side
ESSAY:
Sunanda K. Datta-Ray
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ATLANTIC
COVER:
You Scratch My Back ...
From Indonesia to Mexico, Pakistan to Italy, the costs of
corruption have reached massive proportions. In this era of
global finance, it's not just somebody else's problem, so
Herculean international efforts have been launched to crack down
on bribery
Clearing out the Muck: Armed with the power of publicity, Peter
Eigen's Transparency International put payola on the world's
agenda
EUROPE:
Kosovo in Chaos
With as many as 60,000 Kosovars displaced by fighting in the
troubled province, the West warns Serb strongman Slobodan
Milosevic to back off--or else
Viewpoint: Thomas Sancton on France's strikebuster
VIEW FROM WASHINGTON:
Nigeria's chance to reform
A Brighter Future: Africa's economic moment
SPORT:
The World Cup kicks off in France
ART:
Who Was Delacroix?
A series of bicentenary exhibitions across France seeks the man
behind the Master whose inner world of ambiguity and paradox
continues to mystify
APPRECIATION:
The spirit of Federico Garcia Lorca
BOOKS:
W. Michael Blumenthal explores German-Jewish disaffection
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LATIN AMERICA
BRAZIL:
Landless Rebels
Destitute farmers are the foot soldiers for a group of
leftist revolutionaries who are successfully campaigning to take
back land for agricultural cooperatives
CANADA
HEALTH:
Deadpan Is Beautiful
If injections of a lethal toxin can eliminate wrinkles, who cares if it also paralyzes your face?
BOOKS:
Mark Kingwell looks--but not deeply--into happiness
SOUTH PACIFIC
QUEENSLAND:
The New Face of Politics
he success of the One Nation party in Queensland augurs a
shake-up in Australia's political status quo
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