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Edition: Asia
Edition: Asia
Vol. 171, No. 24
COVER
America's Medicated Army
(United States)
Thousand of troops are being given antidepressant drugs to deal with battle field stress. A TIME investigation reveals combat's heavy toll on their mental health and why the military's efforts to treat it may be making the problem worse
ASIA
Lee's Blue House Blues
South Korea's President Lee Myung Bak rode a groundswell of support into office, but "the Bulldozer" is discovering that in Asia, fickle voters sometimes push back
TIME Interview with South Korea's President
Lee: Results 'don't come immediately'
TECHNOLOGY
Who Will Rule The New Internet?
Apple, Google and Facebook all want to build the next great platform. Inside the struggle for Web supremacy
LETTERS
Inbox
ARTS
Cellular Seduction
(Books)
Wacky science, gore and sex abound in novelist Hideaki Sena's kitsch horror classic
ESSAY
Poverty Trap
The recent anti-immigrant riots in South Africa reflect globalization's damaging side
GLOBAL ADVISER
Street Art: Wonder Walls
(Diversions)
Stencil graffiti has moved from the streets of Paris into art books
Quebec: A Canadian Occasion (TIME Traveler)
Quebec City throws a year-long party to celebrate its 400 year anniversary
Prescription For Pampering (Your Health)
Combine a comprehensive medical review with the shameless luxury of a spa treatment
Bolzano's Shining Light (Design Watch)
A museum in Italy gets a new home that deftly melds beauty and function

TIME.com's Holiday Gift Guide 2009
Norman Rockwell: The Photographs Behind the Art
Ask Your Questions: Garrison Keillor
Weekly Acoustic News: Thanksgiving Edition
The Gospel of Glee: Is It Anti-Christian?
Can a Good Guy Fix College Football's Worst Thing?
The Road on Film: Beautiful, Bleak
Obama's First State Dinner
The Princess and the Frog: Big Fun on the Bayou
Me and Orson Welles: Zac Efron Takes the Stage