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Edition: South Pacific
Edition: South Pacific
No. 4
COVER
Why America Pays Too Much For Drugs
(Cover Story)
How the clamor for cheap Canadian imports is heating up the 2004 campaign and giving Washington a headache
AUSTRALIA OBSERVED
Triumph of the Lobbyists
When it comes to free-trade agreements, it’s politics as usual

Cartoons of the Week
Who Will Inherit Joel Stein's Kid?
The Weekly Acoustic News
Asterix at 50: The Comic Hero Conquers the World
Photos: Silvio Berlusconi and the Politics of Sex
Pictures of the Week
Short List: TIME's Weekly Critics' Picks
Piecing Together Nabokov's Last Novel
Photos: Peru's Sacred Glacier Is Melting
New Moon Review: Team Jacob Ascending