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Edition: South Pacific
Edition: South Pacific
No. 42
COVER
How Apple Does It
(What's Next)
Conventional wisdom says its strategy is wrong, yet it keeps turning out great products. TIME looks inside the world's most innovative company
ASIA
An Activist's Tale
In southern China, the beating of a well-known campaigner exposes trouble in the villages
Picking up the Pieces (Cover Story)
In the cold Himalayan mountains, aid workers are rushing to help the survivors of a massive earthquake. Will there be political consequences?
SOUTH PACIFIC
Trust Me, I'm Fair
Australian workers like the market going up - and a safety net on the way down

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