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Edition: South Pacific
Edition: South Pacific
No.17
COVER
Q: What Scares Doctors? A: Being the Patient
(Medicine)
What insiders know about our health-care system that the rest of us need to learn
SCIENCE
A Twitch of Potential
(Science and Society)
Two Australian researchers believe they've landed a blow on a deadly and neglected nerve disease
SOUTH PACIFIC
Closing the Asylum Gate
Critics say Australia's plan to process all boat people offshore threatens the U.N.'s convention on refugees
NOTEBOOK
Solomons Erupt Again
After an uneventful national election in long-restive Solomon Islands, many expected the Parliament's choice of a Prime Minister to go smoothly.

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