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Edition: South Pacific
No. 24

COVER
The Year in Pictures 2009
We greeted a U.S. President and said goodbye to the King of Pop. We saw a miracle on a river, faces of war, and the world through the eyes of a whale calf. From Iran and China, a U.S. Senator's graveside and the rings of Saturn come the most striking images of 2009, described by the photographers and citizen journalists who produced them


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The Best of 2009
From animated artistry on the big screen to favorite fiction (and nonfiction) to cerebral country music, TIME's top picks of the year


ESSAY
A Cosmic Farce
In Hong Kong, the practice of feng shui has been cheapened to the point of absurdity


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LILY KONG, the director of the Asia Research Institute, on the lack of space for human remains in Singapore, where bodies are exhumed and cremated after 15 years