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Edition: South Pacific
Edition: South Pacific
No. 31
FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS
Complete list of articles
Complete list of articles
COVER
Mean Streets
(Cover Story)
Asia tries to cut fatality rates on the region’s roads, the world’s most chaotic and dangerous highways
ASIA
Terrorism's Harvest
How al-Qaeda is tapping into the opium trade to finance its operations and destabilize Afghanistan
Unnatural Disaster
South Asia reels from a double blow of flooding and drought, problems that will only get worse without better water management

Cartoons of the Week
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
Are You Ready? TIME.com's Holiday Gift Guide 2009
Broken Embraces: Death Becomes Almodóvar and Cruz